ordinary matter-mirror matter bound states: RT Foot & S. Mitra 2002.07.30: Rich Murray 2010.01.08

[Rich Murray]

ordinary matter-mirror matter bound states: RT Foot & S. Mitra
2002.07.30: Rich Murray 2010.01.08
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.htm
Friday, January 8, 2010
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AstroDeep/34
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http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-ph/0207175
Does mirror matter exist?  July 17 2002

http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/hep-ph/0204256

Robert Foot  [hidden email]

Saibal Mitra [hidden email]

arXiv:hep-ph/0204256 v2 30 Jul 2002
May 2002
Ordinary atom-mirror atom bound states:
A new window on the mirror world
Robert Foot and S. Mitra

[hidden email]
School of Physics
Research Centre for High Energy Physics
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia

[hidden email]
Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica
Universiteit van Amsterdam
1018 XE Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Abstract
Mirror symmetry is a plausible candidate for a fundamental
symmetry of particle interactions which can be exactly
conserved if a set of mirror particles exist.
The properties of the mirror particles seem to provide an
excellent candidate to explain the inferred dark matter of the
Universe and might also be responsible for a variety of other
puzzles in particle physics, astrophysics, meteoritics and
planetary science.
One such puzzle -- the orthopositronium lifetime problem
-- can be explained if there is a small kinetic mixing of
ordinary and mirror photons.
We show that this kinetic mixing implies the existence of
ordinary atom - mirror atom bound states with interesting
terrestrial and astrophysical implications.
We suggest that sensitive mass spectroscopic studies of
ordinary samples containing heavy elements such as lead
might reveal the presence of these bound states, as they
would appear as anomalously heavy elements.
In addition to the effects of single mirror atoms, collective
effects from embedded fragments of mirror matter (such
as mirror iron microparticles) are also possible.
We speculate that such mirror matter fragments might
explain a mysterious UV photon burst observed coming
from a laser irradiated lead target in a recent experiment.

[ Rich Murray comments]

They calculate that Fe' [mirror Fe] will be stably bound
to Fe, Au, and similarly massive ordinary massive atoms,
forming pairs in which the mirror atom will be almost
invisible to all ordinary fields except gravity.
If a sample of iron or gold contained a percentage of these
pairs, the mirror atom component may radiate heat away into
interplanetary space, causing an apparently constant energy
loss to the object -- an apparent anomaly.

These might have been noticed since Stone Age times.
This might be recorded as myths about various objects that
are unusually heavy, cold, or even invisible, or about strange,
magical environments that, for instance, invoke the
"chill of death".
Artifacts hidden away in museums may have mirror matter
components.
There may be many obscure records of such objects and
anomalies in the scientific record since 1600.

If a cave were to exist in porous, insulating vocanic rock
or pumice, with only a single, limited, upward tunnel to the
surface, it might tend to concentrate MM'
[matter-mirror matter bound states], for instance, with
krypton, xenon, mercury, and radon, which would settle over
millions of years, creating ice caves, even in hot, dry areas,
even though rock temperatures usually increase with depth.
Preferential evaporation of the slightly warmer normal matter
gases would tend to concentrate the MM' molecules.
A search on Google reveals many articles, with photos, of
exactly such caves in the USA, often with the explanation
that in winter cold air and water settle into the cave,
leading to permanent ice accumulation.

http://www.icecaves.com/index.html#3
Write to us at  Ice Caves Trading Co.
12000 Ice Caves Rd.  Grants, New Mexico 87020
Call us at: 1-888-ICE-CAVE, or [hidden email]

http://www.icecaves.com/cavetrail.html
The temperature in this cave never gets above 31
degrees Fahrenheit.
As rain water and snow melt seep into the cave,
the ice floor thickens.
The floor of the ice is approximately 20 feet thick.
The deepest ice is the oldest and dates back to 1100 BP.
The green tint is caused by an Arctic algae.
The back wall was formed in the early days when ancient
Indians and early settlers mined the ice.
In 1946, ice removal was stopped at which time the ice wall
was nearly 12 feet high.
Since then, the ice floor has risen relative to the back wall.
The rate of ice accumulation varies with annual precipitation.
The cause of original formation of ice back in 170 AD is
uncertain.
However, its perpetuation is due to a combination of existing
conditions that make a natural ice box:
20 feet of ice in a well insulated cave shaped to trap frigid air.
The Ice Cave was known to the Pueblo Indians as the
Winter Lake.

http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/education/rockin2000/aa-ice.html
GPS LOCATION: N34° 59.556' W108° 04.926'
photo CAPTION:
This is the site of a collapsed lava tube, referred to locally
as "the natural ice box."
The temperature inside is approximately 50°F, significantly
cooler than the summertime above-ground ambient
temperature.
The well-insulated pit approximates the mean annual
temperature.
Locals once stored food here to keep it from spoiling.
The temperature inside is relatively constant, year-round.

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ame2m/newmexico/icecave.html
photos

http://www.caver.com/crf/labe98.htm
Monitoring
We continued with long-term monitoring of ice levels in the
ice caves, and winter bat population counts. An interesting
phenomena in Merrill Ice Cave was observed this fall.
The ice at the base of the ice pond apparently melted and
drained out, leaving a small ice cavern beneath
the ice slab that once was the top of the pond.
As far as we know this has not been observed at Lava Beds
before.
This coming February we will thoroughly document the status
of the ice in Merrill and try to understand what happened.

worth keeping in mind re exotic impacts -- mirror matter
proposals, Robert T Foot: Rich Murray 2010.01.06
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AstroDeep/33
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exact Carolina Bay crater locations, RB Firestone, A West,
et al, two YD reviews, 2008 June, 2009 Nov,
also 3 upcoming abstracts: Rich Murray 2009.11.14
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.htm
Saturday, November 14, 2009
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BS MIT 1964, history and physics,
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