  Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted by many extensions of the Standard
Model (SM). When ALP mass lies in the range of MeV to GeV, the cosmology and
astrophysics will be largely irrelevant. In this work, we investigate such
light ALPs through the ALP-strahlung process $pp \to V a (\to \gamma\gamma)$ at
the 14 TeV LHC with an integrated luminosity of 3000 fb$^{-1}$ (HL-LHC). With
the photon-jet algorithm, we demonstrate that our approach can probe the mass
range of ALPs, which is inaccessible to previous LHC experiments. The obtained
result can surpass the existing limits on ALP-photon coupling in the ALP mass
range from 0.3 GeV to 10 GeV.
