Mirror Matter-Type Dark Matter

By Robert Foot. 2004

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There are six main things which any non-baryonic dark matter theory should endeavour to explain: (1) The basic dark matter particle properties [mass, stability, darkness]; (2) The similarity in cosmic abundance between ordinary and non-baryonic dark matter, ΩB~Ωdark; (3) Large scale structure formation; (4) Microlensing (MACHO) events; (5) Asymptotically flat rotation curves in spiral galaxies; (6) The impressive DAMA/NaI annual modulation signal. Only mirror matter-type dark matter appears capable of explaining all six of these desirable features. The purpose of this article is to provide an up-to-date and pedagogical review of this dark matter candidate.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Citations in the corpus

• Double-Disk Dark Matter (2013, background): “We note that other authors have proposed interesting scenarios for dark matter involving long range forces and bound states: the older idea of mirror matter [8–14], recent work on dark matter charged under a hidden U(1) [15–17], and more recent work on dark atoms [7, 18–20].”
• Colliding clusters and dark matter self-interactions (2013, background): “Such longrange interactions arise naturally in models of mirror DM (Blinnikov & Khlopov 1983; Kolb, Seckel & Turner 1985; Berezhiani, Dolgov & Mohapatra 1996; Foot 2004) or atomic DM (Kaplan et al. 2010; Cline, Liu & Xue 2012; Cyr-Racine & Sigurdson 2013).”
• Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC (2018, background): “Evidence from both cosmology and astrophysics may supporting the possibility of long-range interactions among DM constituents (see, for instance, the role of massless dark photons in galaxy formation and dynamics [291–298]).”
• Spin-half fermions with mass dimension one: theory, phenomenology, and dark matter (2004, background): “It is a viable and attractive dark matter candidate [116]–[118].”
• The Dark Photon (2020, unknown): “…et al., 2015; Carlson et al., 1992; Chu and Dasgupta, 2014; Cline et al., 2014, 2012; Cyr-Racine and Sigurdson, 2013; Feng et al., 2009, 2008; Foot, 2004; Gabrielli and Raidal, 2014; Goldberg and Hall, 1986; Gradwohl and Frieman, 1992; Holdom, 1986a; Hooper et al., 2012; Kaplan et al., 2010;…”