Dark matter in astrophysics and particle physics, 1998 : proceedings of the Second International Conference on Dark Matter in Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, 20-25 July 1998 / edited by H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and L. Baudis.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H. V. (Hans Volker), 1942-

Baudis, L.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Dark Matter in Astrophysics and Particle Physics (2nd : 1998 : Heidelberg, Germany)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dark matter (Astronomy)--Congresses.

Dark matter (Astronomy).

Astrophysics--Congresses.

Astrophysics.

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Congresses.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 871 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., [1999]

Summary:

One of the major open questions in high energy physics and cosmology is the nature and origin of dark matter. This book contains the invited papers presented at the second international conference. The conference brought together leading researchers from around the world to review recent in the and future directions for research in the different approaches to the dark matter problem. The book brings together results from cosmology, large scale structure, accelerator and non-accelerator physics. The correlations between and the virtues of each of the fields for the determination of abundance, nature and odin of dark matter are reviewed. The book gives a comprehensive overview of the current status of research in this topical field.

Contents:

1. Early Universe 1

String cosmology / E J Copeland 3

Cosmic strings and structure formation / C van de Bruck 17

The end

or just the beginning

for defect-based structure formation / R A Battye 32

Phase transitions in the early Universe (is there a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition?) / M G Schmidt 57

Baryogenesis through lepton number violation / U Sarkar 81

Baryogenesis through mixing of heavy Majorana neutrinos / A Pilaftsis 93

Big Bang nucleosynthesis: reprise / S Sarkar 108

New tests of inflation / M Kamionkowski 131

Primordial black holes from the early Universe and Hawking radiation / D B Cline 139

2. Cosmological Parameters 151

The Hubble Space Telescope and the value of the Hubble constant / G A Tammann 153

Towards an accurate determination of the age of the Universe / R Jimenez 170

The cosmological constant [Lambda], the age of the Universe and dark matter: clues from the Ly[alpha]-forest / C van de Bruck, W Priester 181

Cosmological insights from supernovae / P Ruiz-Lapuente 197

Measurements of [Omega subscript M] and [Omega subscript Lambda] from 42 high-redshift supernovae / I M Hook (for the Supernova Cosmology Project) 210

The high-redshift supernova search

evidence for a positive cosmological constant / B Leibundgut, G Contardo, P Woudt, J Spyromilio 222

Constraints on the cosmological parameters using CMB observations / G Rocha 238

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and dark matter / J Loveday (for the SDSS collaboration) 305

Precision measurements from the Las Campanas survey

two-point, three-point correlation functions and the pairwise velocity of galaxies / G Borner, Y P Jing, H J Mo 315

Regularity of the large-scale structure of the Universe / J Einasto 326

On the fractal structure of the universe: methods, results and theoretical implication / F Sylos Labini 336

Large-scale structure and cosmological waveguides / S Capozziello, G Iovane 353

3. Galaxies and Microlensing 365

Dark halos and galaxy evolution / C Firmani, V Avila-Reese 367

On the structure and nature of dark matter halos / A Burkert, J Silk 375

Dark halos of distant field galaxies / B Fuchs 387

What are MACHOs? Limits on stellar objects as the dark matter of our halo / K Freese, B Fields, D Graff 397

Microlensing results from the MACHO collaboration / K Griest 418

Latest results from EROS / M Moniez (for the EROS collaboration) 425

Gamma rays from a baryonic dark halo / F De Paolis, G Ingrosso, Ph Jetzer, M Roncadelli 433

The modified dynamics

a status review / M Milgrom 443

4. Particle Physics 459

Supersymmetric dark matter / M Kamionkowski 461

The cold axion populations / S Chang, C Hagmann, P Sikivie 471

SUSY dark matter: direct searches versus collider experiments / M Brhlik 499

Galactic antiprotons and supersymmetry / P Salati 516

WIMP annihilations and the galactic gamma-ray halo / P Gondolo 531

Non-universal soft SUSY breaking effects on dark matter / R Arnowitt, P Nath 548

Next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model and direct dark matter detection / V A Bednyakov, H V Klapdor-Kleingrothaus 559

SUSY dark matter / P Nath, R Arnowitt 572

Superstrings and dark matter / R Dick, N Eschrich, M Gaul 585

Wimpzillas! / E W Kolb, D J H Chung, A Riotto 592

The cryptonic charm of superheavy dark matter and of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays / D V Nanopoulos 615

Superball dark matter / A Kusenko 626

Dark matter from unstable B-balls / K Enqvist 641

Is dark matter made up of massive quark objects? / S Fredriksson, D Enstrom, J Hansson, S Ekelin, A Nicolaidis 651

Nucleosynthesis constraints on SIMPs / R Mohapatra, V L Teplitz 659

Familon excitations of preon vacuum as dark matter candidates / O Lalakulich, G Vereshkov 668

Thermodynamical instability of self-gravitating heavy neutrino matter / N Bilic, R D Viollier 684

Calculated weak rates of sd-shell nuclei in stellar matter and the collapse of 8-10 M[characters not reproducible] stars / J-U Nabi, H V Klapdor-Kleingrothaus 692

5. Dark Matter Detection 709

The DAMA experiments: status report / P Belli, R Bernabei, C J Dai, L K Ding, W Di Nicolantonio, G Ignesti, A Incicchitti, H H Kuang, J M Ma, F Montecchia, D Prosperi, M Angelone, P Batistoni, M Pillon 711

The GENIUS experiment: background and technical studies / L Baudis, G Heusser, B Majorovits, Y Ramachers, H Strecker, H V Klapdor-Kleingrothaus 719

Background simulation for the GENIUS project / O A Ponkratenko, V I Tretyak, Yu G Zdesenko 738

New WIMP limits from the Heidelberg-Moscow experiment / L Baudis, G Heusser, H V Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, B Majorovits, Y Ramachers, H Strecker 756

The DRIFT project: searching for WIMPs with a directional detector / M J Lehner, K Griest, C J Martoff, G E Masek, T Ohnuki, D Snowden-Ifft, N J C Spooner 767

Status of the PICASSO project / R Gornea, H Jeremie, L Lessard, L Rainville, V Zacek 772

Dark matter search at Boulby Mine / I Liubarsky, T Ali, G J Alner, B Ahmed, G T J Arnison, J C Barton, A Bewick, D Davidge, G J Davies, G J Homer, A S Howard, W G Jones, M Joshi, V A Kudryavtsev, M J Lehner, J D Lewin, J E McMillan, C D Peak, J J Quenby, J W Roberts, N J T Smith, P F Smith, R A D Smith, N J C Spooner, T J Sumner, D R Tovey 780

Preliminary results of the 20 TeO[subscript 2] crystals detector array, the first step towards the CUORE experiment / A Alessandrello, C Brofferio, C Bucci, O Cremonesi, E Fiorini, A Giuliani, A Nucciotti, M Pavan, G Pessina, S Pirro, E Previtali, M Vanzini, L Zanotti 785

Atmospheric and astrophysics neutrinos with MACRO / T Montaruli (for the MACRO collaboration) 790

The Lake Baikal experiment / V A Balkanov, I A Belolaptikov, L B Bezrukov, N M Budnev, A G Chensky, I A Danilchenko, Zh-A M Djilkibaev, G V Domogatsky, A A Doroshenko, S V Fialkovsky, O N Gaponenko, A A Garus, T I Gress, A M Klabukov, A I Klimov, S I Klimushin, A P Koshechkin, E V Kuznetzov, V F Kulepov, L A Kuzmichev, S V Lovzov, B K Lubsandorzhiev, M B Milenin, R R Mirgazov, A V Moroz, N I Moseiko, V A Netikov, E A Osipova, A I Panfilov, Yu V Parfenov, A A Pavlov, E N Pliskovsky, P G Pohil, E G Popova, M I Rozanov, V Yu Rubzov, I A Sokalsky, Ch Spiering, O Streicher, B A Tarashansky, T Thon, R Vasiljev, R Wischnewski, I V Yashin 805

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for the search for dark matter and antimatter in space and its first flight on the Shuttle / R Battiston 815

Neutrino dark matter search at accelerators / M Vander Donckt 830

The OPERA experiment / G Iovane 845

New features of the anomaly in the tritium beta spectrum from the 'Troitsk v-mass' experiment / V M Lobashev, V N Aseev, A I Belesev, A I Berlev, E V Geraskin, A A Golubev, O V Kazachenko, Yu E Kuznetsov, R P Ostroumov, L A Ryvkis, B E Stern, N A Titov, S V Zadorozhny, Yu I Zakharov 851.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0750306343

OCLC:

41967270