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The origin of matter and dark matter

Lonsdale, Stephen J. ( 2018)

Why is the mass density of dark matter throughout the universe similar to that of ordinary matter? Asymmetric symmetry breaking models can explain this apparent coincidence by exploring how dark matter could naturally have a similar mass to the proton and how the number density of dark matter particles could be almost the same as ordinary nucleons. In this work models of high energy scale mirror symmetry connecting the standard model to an exact copy are spontaneously broken to produce models of asymmetric dark matter, with composite dark matter candidates, that naturally solve the dark matter mystery.