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arxiv 1607.06083 v2 pith:ATFWPOQK submitted 2016-07-20 hep-ph hep-ex

Searching for axion-like particles with ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions

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We show that ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions at the LHC can be used to search for axion-like particles with mass below 100 GeV. The $Z^4$ enhanced photon-photon luminosity from the ions provides a large exclusive production rate, with a signature of a resonant pair of back-to-back photons and no other activity in the detector. In addition, we present both new and updated limits from recasting multi-photon searches at LEP II and the LHC, which are more stringent than those currently in the literature for the mass range 100 MeV to 100 GeV.

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