Axions and Axion-like particles: collider searches

TL;DR

This paper reviews collider search strategies for Axion-like particles (ALPs), explaining their theoretical origins, interactions, and how they can be detected or constrained at high-energy colliders.

Contribution

It provides a pedagogical overview of ALP collider phenomenology, including production, decay channels, and indirect detection methods, serving as a foundational resource for newcomers.

Findings

Summarizes dominant ALP production and decay channels at colliders.

Discusses indirect probes via precision Standard Model measurements.

Provides references for further study.

Abstract

We give an overview of collider searches for Axion-like particles (ALPs). The intention of this review is to give a pedagogical introduction to collider phenomenology of ALPs, and provide a starting point for newcomers, including suitable references to deepen their knowledge. We motivate how ALPs arise from the breaking of approximate global symmetries and describe their interactions across different scales in an effective field theory framework. We further review the dominant production and decay channels for ALPs at high-energy hadron and lepton colliders as well as indirect ways to probe their interactions via precision measurements of Standard Model processes.