STRUCTURE FORMATION WITH MIRROR DARK MATTER: CMB AND LSS
- 25 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Modern Physics D
- Vol. 14 (1), 107-119
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271805005165
Abstract
In the mirror world hypothesis, the mirror baryonic component emerges as a possible dark matter candidate. An immediate question arises: how do the mirror baryons behave and what are their differences from the more familiar dark matter candidates such as cold dark matter? In this paper, we answer this question quantitatively. First, we discuss the dependence of the relevant scales for the structure formation (Jeans and Silk scales) on the two macroscopic parameters necessary to define the model: the temperature of the mirror plasma (limited by the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis) and the amount of mirror baryonic matter. Then we perform a complete quantitative calculation of the implications of mirror dark matter on the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure power spectrum. Finally, confronting with the present observational data, we obtain some bounds on the mirror parameter space.Keywords
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