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XENON1T implications for the DAMA annual modulation: The good, the bad and the ugly
R. Foot
Previous work has argued that the DAMA annual modulation signal might be due to electron recoils in plasma dark matter models. A specific model assuming mirror dark matter and feat…
Mirror dark matter will be confirmed or excluded by XENON1T
J. D. Clarke, R. Foot
Mirror dark matter, where dark matter resides in a hidden sector exactly isomorphic to the standard model, can be probed via direct detection experiments by both nuclear and electr…
Dissipative hidden sector dark matter
R. Foot, S. Vagnozzi
A simple way of explaining dark matter without modifying known Standard Model physics is to require the existence of a hidden (dark) sector, which interacts with the visible one pr…
Can dark matter - electron scattering explain the DAMA annual modulation signal?
R. Foot
The annually modulating keV scintillations observed in the DAMA/NaI and DAMA/Libra experiments might be due to dark matter - electron scattering. Such an explanation is now…
Hidden sector dark matter explains the DAMA, CoGeNT, CRESST-II and CDMS/Si experiments
R. Foot
We examine data from the DAMA, CoGeNT, CRESST-II and CDMS/Si direct detection experiments in the context of multi-component hidden sector dark matter. The models considered feature…
Mirror dark matter interpretations of the DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST-II data
R. Foot
The CRESST-II collaboration have announced evidence for the direct detection of dark matter in 730 kg-days exposure of a CaWO target. We examine these new results, along with D…
Diurnal modulation due to self-interacting mirror and hidden sector dark matter
R. Foot
Mirror and more generic hidden sector dark matter models can simultaneously explain the DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST dark matter signals consistently with the null results of the other…
Top quark forward-backward asymmetry from SU(N_c) color
R. Foot
We argue that the production asymmetry observed at the tevatron might be simply explained if the standard QCD theory is extended to which is spontane…
Do magnetic fields prevent mirror particles from entering the galactic disk?
R. Foot
Recently it has been suggested that magnetic fields prevent mirror particles from entering the galactic disk, thereby disfavoring the mirror dark matter explanation of the dark mat…
A comprehensive analysis of the dark matter direct detection experiments in the mirror dark matter framework
R. Foot
Mirror dark matter offers a framework to explain the existing dark matter direct detection experiments. Here we confront this theory with the most recent experimental data, paying…
A CoGeNT confirmation of the DAMA signal
R. Foot
The CoGeNT collaboration has recently reported a rising low energy spectrum in their ultra low noise germanium detector. This is particularly interesting as the energy range probed…
Relevance of the CDMSII events for mirror dark matter
R. Foot
Mirror dark matter offers a framework to explain the existing dark matter direct detection experiments, including the impressive DAMA annual modulation signal. Here we examine the…
Evidence for mirror dark matter from the CDMS low energy electron recoil spectrum
R. Foot
We point out that mirror dark matter predicts low energy ( keV) electron recoils from mirror electron scattering as well as nuclear recoils from mirror io…
Mirror dark matter and the new DAMA/LIBRA results: A simple explanation for a beautiful experiment
R. Foot
Recently, the DAMA/LIBRA experiment has convincingly confirmed the DAMA/NaI annual modulation signal, experimentally demonstrating the existence of non-baryonic dark matter in the…
Mirror dark matter
R. Foot
A mirror sector of particles and forces provides a simple explanation of the inferred dark matter of the Universe. The status of this theory is reviewed - with emphasis on how the…
A simple explanation of the PVLAS anomaly in spontaneously broken mirror models
R. Foot, A. Kobakhidze
The PVLAS anomaly can be explained if there exist millicharged particles of mass eV and electric charge . We point out that such particles…
Generalized mirror matter models
R. Foot
Non-minimal gauge models with exact unbroken improper space-time symmetries are constructed and their cosmological and astrophysical implications explored.
Avoiding the gauge heirarchy problem with see-sawed neutrino masses
R. Foot
We show that the see-saw neutrino mass mechanism can coexist naturally with an extended gauge symmetry (i.e. without any gauge heirarchy problem) provided that the gauge symmetry c…
Have mirror micrometeorites been detected?
R. Foot, S. Mitra
Slow-moving ( km/s) 'dark matter particles' have allegedly been discovered in a recent experiment. We explore the possibility that these slow moving dark matter particle…
Are four neutrino models ruled out?
R. Foot
We show explicitly that four neutrino models of the 2+2 variety still provide an acceptable global fit to the solar, atmospheric and LSND neutrino data. The goodness of fit, define…
The neutrino puzzle in the light of SNO
R. Foot, R. R. Volkas
SNO's neutral current measurement has added a new piece to the emerging neutrino physics puzzle. Putting together the presently available experimental information, an essentially u…
Ordinary atom-mirror atom bound states: A new window on the mirror world
R. Foot, S. Mitra
Mirror symmetry is a plausible candidate for a fundamental symmetry of particle interactions which can be exactly conserved if a set of mirror particles exist. The properties of th…
A mirror world explanation for the Pioneer spacecraft anomalies?
R. Foot, R. R. Volkas
We show that the anomalous acceleration of the Pioneer 10/11 spacecraft can be explained if there is some mirror gas or mirror dust in our solar system.
The mirror world interpretation of the 1908 Tunguska event and other more recent events
R. Foot
Mirror matter is predicted to exist if parity (i.e. left-right symmetry) is a symmetry of nature. Remarkably mirror matter is capable of simply explaining a large number of contemp…