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 (61)

• A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
• Too massive neutron stars: The role of dark matter?
• Experimental search for neutron - mirror neutron oscillations using storage of ultracold neutrons
• Dark matter admixed neutron stars
• Massive gravity from bimetric gravity
• Neutron to Mirror-Neutron Oscillations in the Presence of Mirror Magnetic Fields
• Cosmology with Mirror Dark Matter
• Phenomenology of 10^32 Dark Sectors
• Neutron - mirror neutron mixing and neutron stars
• Smoke and mirrors: Neutron star internal heating constraints on mirror matter
• Dark matter in galaxies
• Dark atoms and composite dark matter
• Dynamical evolution of dark matter admixed neutron stars
• Dark Matter via Many Copies of the Standard Model
• Experimental Search for Neutron to Mirror Neutron Oscillations as an Explanation of the Neutron Lifetime Anomaly
• Direct CP violation in beauty and charm hadron decays
• Direct Detection of Mirror Matter in Twin Higgs Models
• Dark matter effects on the properties of neutron stars: compactness and tidal deformability
• Solution to the hyperon puzzle using dark matter
• Thermodynamics of the early Universe with mirror dark matter
• Searching for Hidden Neutrons with a Reactor Neutrino Experiment: Constraints from the STEREO Experiment
• Decaying Dark Atom constituents and cosmic positron excess
• Phenomenological constraints on accretion of non-annihilating dark matter on the PSR B1257+12 pulsar from orbital dynamics of its planets
• Neutron-Mirror-Neutron Oscillations in a Trap
• Neutron lifetime anomaly and mirror matter theory
• Standard Model and Graviweak Unification with (Super)Renormalizable Gravity. Part I: Visible and Invisible Sectors of the Universe
• Baryogenesis in Cosmological Model with Superstring-Inspired E_6 Unification
• Superheavy dark matter from the natural inflation in light of the highest-energy astroparticle events
• Three Extra Mirror or Sequential Families: a Case for Heavy Higgs and Inert Doublet
• Solving the Wrong Hierarchy Problem
• A search for neutron-to-hidden-neutron oscillations in a ultra-cold neutron beam
• Neutron star structure with a new force between quarks
• Mirror World with Broken Mirror Parity, E(6) Unification and Cosmology
• Broken Symmetry as a Stabilizing Remnant
• Strange stars with a mirror-dark-matter core confronting with the observations of compact stars
• Planck Scale Physics, Gravi-Weak Unification and the Higgs Inflation
• Asymmetric reheating from a symmetric inflationary potential
• Dark photon portal into mirror world
• A search for neutron to mirror neutron oscillation using neutron electric dipole moment measurements
• Introduction to the special issue of Modern Physics Letters A "Indirect dark matter searches"
• Non-collider searches for stable massive particles
• Exploring millicharged dark matter components from the shadows
• Unexpected LIGO events and the Mirror World
• New Search for Mirror Neutrons at HFIR
• Causal Fermion Systems and Octonions
• Neutron-Mirror Neutron conversion in Vacuum, Trap, Material and Neutron Star
• Production and evaporation of micro black holes as a link between mirror universes
• Quaternion Spin
• Cosmoparticle physics of dark matter
• The Hydrogen Mixing Portal, Its Origins, and Its Cosmological Effects
• Violation of C/CP Symmetry Induced by a Scalar Field Emerging from a Two-Brane Universe: A Gateway to Baryogenesis
• Moriond QCD 2007 - Theory Summary
• Neutron-Mirror Neutron oscillations in Matter
• Mirror-extended standard model with spontaneously broken left-right symmetry and its implementation in the course of cosmological evolution
• Dark Atoms of the Universe: towards OHe nuclear physics
• Relativity without tears
• Thorne-Żytkow objects with mirror neutron star cores?
• Graviweak Unification in the Visible and Invisible Universe and Inflation from the Higgs Field False Vacuum
• Search for mirror hidden sector with neutral kaons at NA64
• Nonstandard cosmologies from physics beyond the Standard model
• CPT Violation, Mirror World and Implications for Baryon Asymmetry