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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• A direct empirical proof of the existence of dark matter
• The MACHO Project: Microlensing Results from 5.7 Years of LMC Observations
• Possible Gravitational Microlensing of a Star in the Large Magellanic Cloud
• The Twin Higgs: Natural Electroweak Breaking from Mirror Symmetry
• The MACHO Project LMC Microlensing Results from the First Two Years and the Nature of the Galactic Dark Halo
• Asymmetric Inflationary Reheating and the Nature of Mirror Universe
• $K_L\to {\pi }^0\nu \bar{\nu }$ Beyond the Standard Model
• Neutrino physics and the mirror world: how exact parity symmetry explains the solar neutrino deficit, the atmospheric neutrino anomaly and the LSND experiment
• Higgs-field Portal into Hidden Sectors
• Reconciling Present Neutrino Puzzles: Sterile Neutrinos as Mirror Neutrinos
• The Early Mirror Universe: Inflation, Baryogenesis, Nucleosynthesis and Dark Matter
• Mirror matter-type dark matter
• Self-Duality, Ramond-Ramond Fields, and K-Theory
• Strong CP problem and mirror world: the Weinberg Wilczek axion revisited
• Neutron -- Mirror Neutron Oscillation: How Fast Might It Be?
• Neutron - Mirror Neutron Oscillations: How Fast Might They Be?
• Planck-Scale Physics and Neutrino Masses
• Mirror dark matter and large scale structure
• Leptogenesis via Collisions: Leaking Lepton Number to the Hidden Sector
• Relic neutrino asymmetry evolution from first principles
• Mirror Matter as Self Interacting Dark Matter
• Implications of the DAMA and CRESST experiments for mirror matter-type dark matter
• Was ordinary matter synthesised from mirror matter? An attempt to explain why ${\Omega }_{Baryon}\approx 0.2{\Omega }_{Dark}$
• Possible Effects of a Hidden Valley on Supersymmetric Phenomenology
• Spheroidal galactic halos and mirror dark matter
• Fast Neutron - Mirror Neutron Oscillation and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
• Mirror World at the Large Hadron Collider
• Evolutionary and structural properties of mirror star MACHOs
• Physics of mirror photons
• Mirror Dark Matter and Core Density of Galaxies
• Ultra high energy neutrinos from hidden-sector topological defects
• Experimental implications of mirror matter-type dark matter
• Can the mirror world explain the ortho-positronium lifetime puzzle?
• Have mirror stars been observed?
• Mirror model for sterile neutrinos
• Explaining ${\Omega }_{Baryon}\approx 0.2{\Omega }_{Dark}$ through the synthesis of ordinary matter from mirror matter: a more general analysis
• Structures in the Mirror Universe
• Lightcurve Classification in Massive Variability Surveys
• Discovering mirror particles at the Large Hadron Collider and the implied cold universe
• The exact parity symmetric model and big bang nucleosynthesis
• Mirror matter and primordial black holes
• Search for Small-Mass Black Hole Dark Matter with Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
• On the experimental search for neutron -- mirror neutron oscillations
• Do mirror planets exist in our solar system?
• Supernova explosions, 511 keV photons, gamma ray bursts and mirror matter
• Mirror World, Supersymmetric Axion and Gamma Ray Bursts
• Some Implications of Neutron Mirror Neutron Oscillation
• Reconciling the positive DAMA annual modulation signal with the negative results of the CDMS II experiment
• Lightcurve Classification in Massive Variability Surveys II: Transients towards the Large Magellanic Cloud
• Search for Invisible Decay of the ${\rm Y}(1S)$
• Implications of mirror neutrinos for early universe cosmology
• Neutrino masses in the SU(5)xSU(5)' mirror symmetric model
• Geophysical constraints on mirror matter within the Earth
• Has DAMA Detected Self-Interacting Dark Matter?
• Cosmic Gamma-ray Bursts. Lectures Presented at XXVII ITEP Winter School
• Have mirror planets been observed?
• Leptons and Photons
• An apparatus to search for mirror dark matter via the invisible decay of orthopositronium in vacuum
• New Supernova Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Production
• Ordinary atom-mirror atom bound states: A new window on the mirror world
• Grand Unification of the Sterile Neutrino
• How strong can the coupling of leptonic photons be?
• Are mirror planets opaque?
• A Sinister Extension of the Standard Model to SU(3)XSU(2)XSU(2)XU(1)
• Implications of the DAMA/NaI and CDMS experiments for mirror matter-type dark matter
• Generalized mirror matter models
• Tera-Leptons Shadows over Sinister Universe
• Detecting mirror matter on Earth via its thermal imprint on ordinary matter
• Electroweak radiative corrections in Z boson decays
• Composite Dark Matter with Invisible Light from Almost-Commutative Geometry
• Generation of Magnetic Fields in Cosmology
• Have mirror micrometeorites been detected?
• Avoiding BBN Constraints on Mirror Models for Sterile Neutrinos
• Contamination in the MACHO dataset and the puzzle of LMC Microlensing
• Search for B0 Decays to Invisible Final States and to nu nubar gamma
• Exotic meteoritic phenomena: The Tunguska event and anomalous low altitude fireballs -- manifestations of the mirror world?
• Composite Dark Matter and its Charged Constituents
• Detecting dark matter in electromagnetic field penetration experiments
• Photon Mixing in Domain Walls and the Cosmic Coincidence Problem
• Baryogenesis: The Lepton Leaking Mechanism
• Cosmology of the Mirror Universe
• Cosmology and New Physics
• Direct Detection of Dark Matter with Space-based Laser Interferometers
• Gamma-ray Bursts Produced by Mirror Stars
• Energy-dependent solar neutrino flux depletion in the Exact Parity Model and implications for SNO, SuperKamiokande and BOREXINO
• Not enough stellar Mass Machos in the Galactic Halo
• A quest for weak objects and for invisible stars
• Domain walls in noncommutative gauge theories, folded D-branes, and communication with mirror world
• Exploring the mirror matter interpretation of the DAMA experiment: Has the dark matter problem been solved?
• A novel left-right symmetric model
• Does mirror matter exist?
• Diffuse Ionization in the Milky Way and Sterile Neutrinos
• Gamma-ray Bursts, Type Ib/c Supernovae and Star-forming Sites in Host Galaxies
• Maxwell's demon through the looking glass
• Quaternionic Formulation of the Exact Parity Model
• Structure formation, CMB and LSS in a mirror dark matter scenario
• Neutrino Physics and the Mirror World
• QSO 0957+561 and other large-separated double quasars: some new results and a future observational project
• A new experiment to search for the invisible decay of the orthopositronium
• Testing the mirror world hypothesis for the close-in extrasolar planets
• Mirror Neutrinos and the Early Universe
• Experimental signatures of a massive mirror photon
• Microlensing Optical Depth of the Large Magellanic Cloud

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• Effects of mirror dark matter on neutron stars
• Leptogenesis as a Common Origin for Matter and Dark Matter
• On Relating the Genesis of Cosmic Baryons and Dark Matter
• A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics
• Too massive neutron stars: The role of dark matter?
• Twin Higgs WIMP Dark Matter
• Twin Higgs Asymmetric Dark Matter
• Experimental search for neutron - mirror neutron oscillations using storage of ultracold neutrons
• Fundamental Particle Structure in the Cosmological Dark Matter
• Dark matter admixed neutron stars
• Possible Implications of Asymmetric Fermionic Dark Matter for Neutron Stars
• Massive gravity from bimetric gravity
• Physics of Dark Matter in the Light of Dark Atoms
• Neutron to Mirror-Neutron Oscillations in the Presence of Mirror Magnetic Fields
• Spontaneous Mirror Parity Violation, Common Origin of Matter and Dark Matter, and the LHC Signatures
• Cosmology with Mirror Dark Matter
• New high-sensitivity searches for neutrons converting into antineutrons and/or sterile neutrons at the European Spallation Source
• Phenomenology of 10^32 Dark Sectors
• Cosmological Bounds on Non-Abelian Dark Forces
• New experimental limits on neutron - mirror neutron oscillations in the presence of mirror magnetic field
• Physical laboratory at the center of the Galaxy
• Neutron - mirror neutron mixing and neutron stars
• Smoke and mirrors: Neutron star internal heating constraints on mirror matter
• Dark Atoms and Puzzles of Dark Matter Searches
• Dark matter in galaxies
• Neutron oscillations for solving neutron lifetime and dark matter puzzles
• Neutron Disappearance and Regeneration from Mirror State
• 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
• Notes on Hidden Mirror World
• Positronium Portal into Hidden Sector: A new Experiment to Search for Mirror Dark Matter
• Space Inversion of Spinors Revisited: A Possible Explanation of Chiral Behavior in Weak Interactions
• Constraining galactic structures of mirror dark matter
• Invisible $K_L$ decays as a probe of new physics
• Mirror World and Superstring-Inspired Hidden Sector of the Universe, Dark Matter and Dark Energy
• Thin disk of co-rotating dwarfs: a fingerprint of dissipative (mirror) dark matter?
• Solution to the hyperon puzzle using dark matter
• Mirror matter can alleviate the cosmological lithium problem
• A Naturally Light Sterile neutrino in an Asymmetric Dark Matter Model
• A possible shortcut for neutron-antineutron oscillation through mirror world
• Thermodynamics of the early Universe with mirror dark matter
• Accretion-Induced Collapse of Dark Matter Admixed White Dwarfs -- I: Formation of Low-mass Neutron Stars
• Mirror Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale
• Positronium oscillations to Mirror World revisited
• Mirror dark matter discovered?
• Kaon oscillations and baryon asymmetry of the universe
• On the Neutron Transition Magnetic Moment
• A Parallel World in the Dark
• Radiative Beta Decay for Studies of CP Violation
• Searching for Hidden Neutrons with a Reactor Neutrino Experiment: Constraints from the STEREO Experiment
• Decaying Dark Atom constituents and cosmic positron excess
• Probing neutron-hidden neutron transitions with the MURMUR experiment
• Search for passing-through-walls neutrons constrains hidden braneworlds
• Gravity and Mirror Gravity in Plebanski Formulation
• Neutron-Mirror-Neutron Oscillations in a Trap
• Phenomenological constraints on accretion of non-annihilating dark matter on the PSR B1257+12 pulsar from orbital dynamics of its planets
• On self-gravitating strange dark matter halos around galaxies
• First search for invisible decays of ortho-positronium confined in a vacuum cavity
• Neutron lifetime anomaly and mirror matter theory
• Graviweak Unification, Invisible Universe and Dark Energy
• Dark Matter Studies Entrain Nuclear Physics
• Standard Model and Graviweak Unification with (Super)Renormalizable Gravity. Part I: Visible and Invisible Sectors of the Universe
• Superheavy dark matter from the natural inflation in light of the highest-energy astroparticle events
• Baryogenesis in Cosmological Model with Superstring-Inspired E_6 Unification
• Cosmological Constant in a Model with Superstring-Inspired E_6 Unification and Shadow Theta-Particles
• Orbital perturbations due to massive rings
• Three Extra Mirror or Sequential Families: a Case for Heavy Higgs and Inert Doublet
• Binary Neutron Star Mergers with Missing Electromagnetic Counterparts as Manifestations of Mirror World
• Solving the Wrong Hierarchy Problem
• Probes for Dark Matter Physics
• Mirror World with Broken Mirror Parity, E(6) Unification and Cosmology
• Neutron star structure with a new force between quarks
• A search for neutron-to-hidden-neutron oscillations in a ultra-cold neutron beam
• Sub-GeV-scale signatures of hidden braneworlds up to the Planck scale in a $SO(3,1)$-broken bulk
• Broken Symmetry as a Stabilizing Remnant
• Planck Scale Physics, Gravi-Weak Unification and the Higgs Inflation
• Asymmetric reheating from a symmetric inflationary potential
• Dark matter reflection of particle symmetry
• Strange stars with a mirror-dark-matter core confronting with the observations of compact stars
• A search for neutron to mirror neutron oscillation using neutron electric dipole moment measurements
• Dark photon portal into mirror world
• Statistical sensitivity of the nEDM apparatus at PSI to neutron mirror-neutron oscillations
• Non-collider searches for stable massive particles
• Introduction to the special issue of Modern Physics Letters A "Indirect dark matter searches"
• Unexpected LIGO events and the Mirror World
• Exploring millicharged dark matter components from the shadows
• Spontaneous violation of mirror symmetry
• Causal Fermion Systems and Octonions
• Non-orientable wormholes as portals to the mirror world
• New Search for Mirror Neutrons at HFIR
• Neutron-Mirror Neutron conversion in Vacuum, Trap, Material and Neutron Star
• Heterotic-$\mathbf{F}$-theory Duality with Wilson Line Symmetry-breaking
• Testing merging of Dark Exotic Stars from Gravitational Waves in the Multi-messenger approach
• Production and evaporation of micro black holes as a link between mirror universes
• Quaternion Spin
• Cosmoparticle physics of dark matter
• Structures of Neutrino Mass Spectrum and Lepton Mixing: Results of Violated Mirror Symmetry
• The Hydrogen Mixing Portal, Its Origins, and Its Cosmological Effects
• On the neutron-antineutron oscillations
• Manifestation of Lepton Interaction Nonuniversality in Spontaneously Violated Mirror Symmetry
• On Spinors and Null Vectors
• 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
• False Vacuum Higgs Inflation and the Graviweak Unification
• Relativity without tears
• Why one can maintain that there is a probability loophole in the CHSH
• Graviweak Unification in the Visible and Invisible Universe and Inflation from the Higgs Field False Vacuum
• Thorne-Żytkow objects with mirror neutron star cores?
• Dark Atoms of the Universe: towards OHe nuclear physics
• Mirror-extended standard model with spontaneously broken left-right symmetry and its implementation in the course of cosmological evolution
• Double Higgs mechanisms, supermassive stable particles and the vacuum energy
• A note on Hardy's paradox
• CPT Violation, Mirror World and Implications for Baryon Asymmetry
• Search for mirror hidden sector with neutral kaons at NA64
• The Mystery of Parity
• Nonstandard cosmologies from physics beyond the Standard model