Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2000-05-24
Phys.Lett.B487:294-298,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
8pages including 1 figure, RevTeX; minor changes and added references; this version accepted by Phys Lett B
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00836-4
The Mirror Matter or Exact Parity Model sees every standard particle, including the physical neutral Higgs boson, paired with a parity partner. The unbroken parity symmetry forces the mass eigenstate Higgs bosons to be maximal mixtures of the ordinary and mirror Higgs bosons. Each of these mass eigenstates will therefore decay 50% of the time into invisible mirror particles, providing a clear and interesting signature for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which could thus establish the existence of the mirror world. However, for this effect to be observable the mass difference between the two eigenstates must be sufficiently large. In this paper, we study cosmological constraints from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis on the mass difference parameter. We find that the temperature of the radiation dominated (RD) phase of the universe should never have exceeded a few 10's of GeV if the mass difference is to be observable at the LHC. Chaotic inflation with very inefficient reheating provides an example of how such a cosmology could arise. We conclude that the LHC could thus discover the mirror world and simultaneously establish an upper bound on the temperature of the RD phase of the universe.
Ignatiev Yu. A.
Volkas Raymond R.
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