TL;DR
Mirror matter, a stable self-collisional dark matter candidate, involves a parallel mirror sector with identical particles and laws, interacting mainly through gravity, and has distinctive cosmological signatures affecting early Universe thermodynamics, nucleosynthesis, and structure formation.
Contribution
This review synthesizes cosmological signatures of mirror dark matter, highlighting its viability and potential as a promising dark matter candidate based on current observational and theoretical insights.
Findings
Mirror matter affects primordial nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave background.
Mirror sector influences large scale structure formation.
Photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing impacts early Universe thermodynamics.
Abstract
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. Besides gravity, the effects on primordial nucleosynthesis of the kinetic mixing between photons and mirror photons are considered. Summarizing the present status of research and comparing…
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