New probes for axionlike particles at hadron colliders

Axionlike particles (ALPs) appear from spontaneous global symmetry breaking in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we find bounds on ALP (a) model parameters at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from the ALP production associated with a photon and a jet (j+γ+a) as well as single top and top quark pairs ($t+j+a$, tt̄+a) in a model-independent approach. In particular, it is shown that the ALP production associated with a photon plus a jet at the LHC is a promising channel with significant sensitivity to probe the ALP couplings to gluons and electroweak gauge bosons. The prospects are presented at the high luminosity LHC including a realistic detector simulation and pileup effects. Furthermore, the ALP model is examined through its contributions to the top quark (chromo)magnetic dipole moments. It is shown that the top quark magnetic and chromomagnetic dipole moments enable us to probe the ALP couplings to top quark and gauge bosons at a time. The constraints are complementary to those obtained from direct searches, as they are sensitive to light ALPs.