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Mirror Dark Matter

Astrophysics 2016-11-03 v1

Abstract

There appear to be three challenges that any theory of dark matter must face: (i) why is ΩDM\Omega_{DM} of the same order as ΩBaryons\Omega_{Baryons} ? (ii) what are the near solar mass objects (0.5M\sim 0.5 M_{\odot}) observed by the MACHO microlensing project ? and (iii) understanding the shallow core density profile of the halos of dwarf as well as low surface brightness galaxies. The popular cold dark matter candidates, the SUSY LSP and the axion fail to meet these challenges. We argue that in the mirror model suggested recently to explain the neutrino anomalies, the mirror baryons being 15-20 times heavier than familiar baryons, can play the role of the cold dark matter and provide reasonable explanation of all three above properties without extra assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0004046,
  title  = {Mirror Dark Matter},
  author = {R. N. Mohapatra and V. L. Teplitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0004046},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Latex, 10 pages; Invited talk presented in PASCOS99 workshop, held in Lake Tahoe, Dec. 1999 and DM2000 workshop held in Los Angeles, February, 2000