Cosmology with Mirror Dark Matter

Understand

Mirror matter is a stable self-collisional dark matter candidate.

• If parity is a conserved unbroken symmetry of nature, there could exist a parallel hidden (mirror) sector of the Universe composed of particles with the same masses and obeying the same physical laws as our (visible) sector, except for the opposite handedness of weak interactions.
• The two sectors interact predominantly via gravity, therefore mirror matter is naturally "dark".
• Here I review the cosmological signatures of mirror dark matter, concerning thermodynamics of the early Universe, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, primordial structure formation and evolution, cosmic microwave background and large scale structure power spectra.