Doctoral Dissertations

Date of Award

8-2025

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Major

Physics

Major Professor

Yuri A. Kamyshkov

Committee Members

Yuri Efremenko, Lawrence Heilbron, Christian Batista

Abstract

The fundamental nature of Dark Matter (DM) is heretofore entirely unknown. Inter-
acting only gravitationally, to this form of matter is attributed many astronomical
observations of behaviors astronomic. Explanations of DM abound, ranging from
Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) of a range of mass-energies from
O(100 GeV) [1] down to below O(1e-20 eV) [10].
Mirror matter is a proposed explanation for dark matter as well as a means of
explaining the baryon asymmetry of the universe. Here I present my work on the
analysis of two experiments performed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as well
as a third-party analysis of an experiment performed at the Institut Laue-Langevin
in Grenoble, France.

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