Mirror particles and mirror matter: 50 years of speculation and search

Abstract

This review describes the history of discovery of violation of spatial parity P, charge conjugation parity C, combined parity CP. The hypothesis of existence of mirror particles was called upon by its authors to restore the symmetry between left and right. The review presents the emergence and evolution of the concepts ``mirror particles'' and ``mirror matter''. It could serve as a concise guide to the ``mirror-land''. An important part of the review is the list of about 250 references with their titles.

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References in corpus (22)

• A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter
• Higgs-field Portal into Hidden Sectors
• Neutron -- Mirror Neutron Oscillation: How Fast Might It Be?
• Possible Effects of a Hidden Valley on Supersymmetric Phenomenology
• Fast Neutron - Mirror Neutron Oscillation and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
• Mirror World at the Large Hadron Collider
• Search for Small-Mass Black Hole Dark Matter with Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
• Search for Invisible Decay of the ${\rm Y}(1S)$
• Has DAMA Detected Self-Interacting Dark Matter?
• A Sinister Extension of the Standard Model to SU(3)XSU(2)XSU(2)XU(1)
• Composite Dark Matter with Invisible Light from Almost-Commutative Geometry
• Composite Dark Matter and its Charged Constituents
• Detecting dark matter in electromagnetic field penetration experiments
• Cosmology and New Physics
• Cosmology of the Mirror Universe
• Direct Detection of Dark Matter with Space-based Laser Interferometers
• Exploring the mirror matter interpretation of the DAMA experiment: Has the dark matter problem been solved?
• Does mirror matter exist?
• Maxwell's demon through the looking glass
• A new experiment to search for the invisible decay of the orthopositronium
• QSO 0957+561 and other large-separated double quasars: some new results and a future observational project
• Testing the mirror world hypothesis for the close-in extrasolar planets

Cited by in corpus (9)

• Experimental search for neutron - mirror neutron oscillations using storage of ultracold neutrons
• Neutron to Mirror-Neutron Oscillations in the Presence of Mirror Magnetic Fields
• Phenomenology of 10^32 Dark Sectors
• Dark Matter via Many Copies of the Standard Model
• Thermodynamics of the early Universe with mirror dark matter
• Neutron-Mirror-Neutron Oscillations in a Trap
• Mirror World with Broken Mirror Parity, E(6) Unification and Cosmology
• Moriond QCD 2007 - Theory Summary
• Relativity without tears