ALPaca: Examples

ALPaca is the ALP Automatic Computing Algorithm, the open-source python library designed to study the phenomenology of ALPs with $m_a \sim \mathcal{O}(\mathrm{GeV})$ in mesonic processes.

Contents

This repository contains useful tutorials and examples of ALPaca:

• ALPaca manual
• Comprehensive ALP Searches in Meson Decays

Citing

If you use ALPaca in your publications, do not forget to use the following reference:

@article{Alda:2025nsz,
    author = "Alda, Jorge and Fuentes Zamoro, Marta and Merlo, Luca and Ponce D{\'\i}az, Xavier and Rigolin, Stefano",
    title = "{ALPaca: The ALP Automatic Computing Algorithm}",
    eprint = "2508.08354",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "hep-ph",
    reportNumber = "IFT-UAM/CSIC-25-82",
    month = "8",
    year = "2025"
}

@software{alda_2025_16447037,
  author       = {Alda, Jorge and
                  Fuentes Zamoro, Marta and
                  Merlo, Luca and
                  Rigolin, Stefano and
                  Ponce Díaz, Xavier},
  title        = {ALPaca v1.0},
  month        = jul,
  year         = 2025,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v1.0.0-alpha.1},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.16447037},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16447037},
}

Additionally, if you find interesting the phenomenology studied in any of the publications linked above, use also the corresponding references.