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The cosmic cocktail : three parts dark matter / Katherine Freese.
LIBRA QB791.3 .F75 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freese, Katherine, author.
- Series:
- Science essentials (Princeton University Press)
- Science essentials
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dark matter (Astronomy).
- Cosmology.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1 The Golden Era of Particle Cosmology, or How I Joined the Chicago Mafia 1
- New York City
- Fermilab: The Atom Smasher in the Prairie
- Chicago: A. New Zeitgeist in Cosmology
- Dunkle Materie: The Dark Enigma
- WIMPs at Harvard
- 2 How Do Cosmologists Know Dark Matter Exists? The Beginning of the Dark Matter Story 9
- What Do Galaxies Look Like?
- Observational Evidence for Dark Matter
- Formation of Galaxies and Clusters
- Dark Matter Dominates
- 3 The Big Picture of the Universe: Einstein and the Big Bang 35
- Geometry of the Universe
- Cosmic Microwave Background
- Outer Space and the Queen of Sweden
- Pie Picture of the Universe
- 4 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Proves That Atomic Matter Constitutes Only 5% of the Universe 67
- A Story about Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
- Particles in the Early Universe: A Primordial Soup; Origins of the Elements
- Atoms Make Up Only 5% of the Universe
- 5 What Is Dark Matter? 83
- Rocks or Dust; Matter and Antimatter
- Neutrinos; MACHOs
- Black Holes
- The Particle Zoo
- The WIMP Miracle
- WIMPs in the Human Body and a Tennis Match
- 6 The Discovery of the Higgs Boson 108
- Atom Smashers: TheLarge Hadron Collider
- CERN
- Discovery of the Higgs 108
- 7 The Experimental Hunt for Dark Matter Particles 123
- The Three Prongs of the Hunt for Dark Matter
- Dark Matter at the Atom Smasher at CERN: Missing Energy plus Jets
- What Has CERN Done for Society?
- Will the LHC Bring Doomsday?
- Direct Detection: Abandoned Mines, Alpine Tunnels, and Nightclubs in Jerusalem
- Indirect Detection: Annihilations in Space and at the South Pole
- 8 Claims of Detection: Are They Real? 147
- Direct Detection in Underground Laboratories
- Indirect Detection of WIMP Annihilation: Positrons, Neutrinos, and Gamma Rays
- Tin Future of Dark Matter Experiments
- 9 Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe 183
- Rounding Out the Universe: Type IA Supernovae and Dark Energy
- The Future of the Universe
- Epicycles
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691153353
- 0691153353
- OCLC:
- 862962234
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