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Astronomical and cosmological observations of the past 80 years build solid evidence that atomic matter makes up only a small fraction of the matter in the universe. The dominant fraction does not interact with electromagnetic radiation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wolfgang Rau

A few remarks on Dark Matter (DM) models are presented. An example is Mirror Matter which is the oldest but still viable DM candidate, perhaps not in the purest form. It can serve as a test-bench for other analogous DM models, since the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Sergei I. Blinnikov

Fragile volatile aggregates with extremely low albedo, gravitationally drawn into the solar system are likely from the dark matter dominating the universal mass. Characteristics of this meteoric population permitted avoiding detection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert K. Soberman , Maurice Dubin

The dark matter directional detection opens a new field in cosmology bringing the possibility to build a map of nuclear recoils that would be able to explore the galactic dark matter halo giving access to a particle characterization of such…

We know from cosmological and astrophysical observations that more than 80% of the matter density in the Universe is non-luminous, or dark. This non-baryonic dark matter could be composed of neutral, heavy particles, which were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-27 Laura Baudis

An experiment to search for hypothetical particle dark matter using cryogenic thermal detector, or bolometer is ongoing. The bolometer consists of eight pieces of 21 g LiF absorbers and sensitive NTD germanium thermistors attached to them…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Ootani , M. Minowa , K. Miuchi , Y. Inoue , T. Watanabe , M. Yoshida , Y. Ito , Y. Ootuka

Dark matter could be composed of compact dark objects (CDOs). These objects may interact very weakly with normal matter and could move freely {\it inside} the Earth. A CDO moving in the inner core of the Earth will have an orbital period…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-10 C. J. Horowitz , R. Widmer-Schnidrig

The majority of the matter in the universe is still unidentified and under investigation by both direct and indirect means. Many experiments searching for the recoil of dark-matter particles off target nuclei in underground laboratories…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Michael Klasen , Martin Pohl , Günter Sigl

The mass of the dark matter particle is unknown, and may be as low as ~$10^{-22}$ eV. The lighter part of this range, below ~eV, is relatively unexplored both theoretically and experimentally but contains an array of natural dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-27 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Jeremy Mardon , Surjeet Rajendran , William A. Terrano

The hypothesis that cold dark matter consists of primordial superheavy particles, the decay of short lifetime component of which led to the observable mass of matter while long living component survived up to modern times manifesting its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov

Through several articles we have developed a model for dark matter as consisting of bubbles of a new (speculated) type of vacuum, starting from cm-sized pearls or balls down to atomic size ones and now we believe they have nanometer sizes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-19 Colin D. Froggatt , Holger B. Nielsen

I present a short overview of the latest developments in indirect searches for dark matter using gamma rays, X-rays, charged cosmic rays, micro waves, radio waves, and neutrinos. I briefly outline key past, present, and future experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-02 Rebecca K. Leane

In this talk, we briefly review our recent investigations on the properties of dark matter (DM) particle.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-22 Shou-hua Zhu

Among the different strategies aiming to detect WIMP dark matter (DM), a neutrino signal coming from the Sun would be a smoking gun. This possibility relies on the DM capture by the Sun driven by the local DM distribution assumptions: the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 A. Nuñez-Castiñeyra , E. Nezri , V. Bertin

Parity and time reversal are obvious and plausible candidates for fundamental symmetries of nature. Hypothesising that these symmetries exist implies the existence of a new form of matter, called mirror matter. The mirror matter theory (or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Foot

The Keplerian distribution of velocities is not observed in the rotation of large scale structures, such as found in the rotation of spiral galaxies. The deviation from Keplerian distribution provides compelling evidence of the presence of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Gazal Sharma , Anu , B. C. Chauhan

Cosmological and astrophysical observations provide increasing evidence of the existence of dark matter in our Universe. Dark matter particles with a mass above a few GeV can be captured by the Sun, accumulate in the core, annihilate, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-25 Chitta R. Das , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

Caustics are high-density structures that form frequently in collisionless media. Under self-gravity, cold dark matter flows focus onto caustics which are yet to be resolved in numerical simulations and or observed in the real world. If…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Raphael Gavazzi , Roya Mohayaee , Bernard Fort

Mirror dark matter, a hidden-sector counterpart to the Standard Model with identical particle content, could be detectable through photon-mirror-photon kinetic mixing $(\epsilon)$. We present new constraints from CDEX-10 low-energy recoil…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 M. Tousif Raza