期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A
卷 29, 期 11-12, 页码 -出版社
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X14300130
关键词
Dark matter; mirror matter; hidden sector
资金
- Australian Research Council
A simple way to accommodate dark matter is to postulate the existence of a hidden sector. That is, a set of new particles and forces interacting with the known particles predominantly via gravity. In general, this leads to a large set of unknown parameters, however, if the hidden sector is an exact copy of the standard model sector, then, an enhanced symmetry arises. This symmetry, which can be interpreted as space-time parity, connects each ordinary particle (e, p, n, gamma) with a mirror partner (e ', v ', p ', n ', gamma ',...). If this symmetry is completely unbroken, then the mirror particles are degenerate with their ordinary particle counterparts, and would interact amongst themselves with exactly the same dynamics that govern ordinary particle interactions. The only new interaction postulated is photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing, whose strength epsilon, is the sole new fundamental (Lagrangian) parameter relevant for astrophysics and cosmology. It turns out that such a theory, with suitably chosen initial conditions effective in the very early universe, can provide an adequate description of dark matter phenomena provided that epsilon similar to 10(-9). This review focusses on three main developments of this mirror dark matter theory during the last decade: early universe cosmology, galaxy structure and the application to direct detection experiments.
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