ALPS2017 -- an Alpine LHC Physics Summit

Session

Opening Talk

17 Apr 2017, 20:00

UZ Obergurgl

14. LHC probes of axion-like particles

Matthias Neubert (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

17/04/2017, 20:00

Opening Talk

We argue that the study of rare Higgs decays in the high-luminosity run at the LHC can probe axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) in a wide range of parameter space, which is otherwise inaccessible to experimental searches. Concerning the coupling of the ALP to photons, our strategy covers the current “gap” in the mass range between 1 MeV and 60 GeV down to photon-axion coupling as small as...