Particle dark matter : observations, models and searches / edited by Gianfranco Bertone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bertone, Gianfranco, 1975- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dark matter (Astronomy).

Mass (Physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 738 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dark matter is among the most important open problems in modern physics. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book describes the theoretical and experimental aspects of the dark matter problem in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Featuring contributions from 48 leading theorists and experimentalists, it presents many aspects, from astrophysical observations to particle physics candidates, and from the prospects for detection at colliders to direct and indirect searches. The book introduces observational evidence for dark matter along with a detailed discussion of the state-of-the-art of numerical simulations and alternative explanations in terms of modified gravity. It then moves on to the candidates arising from theories beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, and to the prospects for detection at accelerators. It concludes by looking at direct and indirect dark matter searches, and the prospects for detecting the particle nature of dark matter with astrophysical experiments.

Contents:

Particle dark matter / G. Bertone and J. Silk

Simulations of cold dark matter haloes / B. Moore and J. Diemand

Milky Way satellites / J. Bullock, M. Kaplinghat and L. Strigari

Gravitational lensing and dark matter / Y. Mellier

Dark matter at the centres of galaxies / D. Merritt

Modified gravity as an alternative to dark matter / J.D. Bekenstein

DM production mechanisms / G. Gelmini and P. Gondolo

Supersymmetric dark matter candidates / J. Ellis and K.A. Olive

Dark matter at the electroweak scale : non-supersymmetric candidates / G. Servant

Non-WIMP candidates / J.L. Feng

Axions / P. Sikivie

Sterile neutrinos / M. Shaposhnikov

SUSY searches at the LHC / T. Plehn and G. Polesello

Supersymmetric dark matter at colliders / M. Battaglia and M.E. Peskin

Extra dimensions at the LHC / K. Kong, K. Matchev and G. Servant

SUSY tools / F. Boudjema, J. Edsjö and P. Gondolo

Direct detection of WIMPs / D.G. Cerdeño and A.M. Green

Annual modulation signature with large mass highly radiopure NaI(Tl) / R. Bernabei and P. Belli

Particle dark matter and the DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA annual modulation effect / N. Fornengo

Cryogenic detectors / G. Gerbier and J. Gascon

Liquid noble gases / E. Aprile and L. Baudis

Directional detectors / N. Spooner

Axion searches / S. Asztalos

Gamma-rays / L. Bergström and G. Bertone

High-energy neutrinos from WIMP annihilations in the sun / F. Halzen and D. Hooper

Indirect dark matter detection with cosmic antimatter / P. Salati, F. Donato and N. Fornengo

Multi-wavelength studies / S. Profumo and P. Ullio

Particle dark matter and Big Bang nucleosynthesis / K. Jedamzik and M. Pospelov

Dark matter and stars / G. Bertone.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20839-4

1-139-63662-6

1-282-65168-4

9786612651687

0-511-76915-6

0-511-76999-7

0-511-76692-0

0-511-77073-1

0-511-76553-3

0-511-76831-1

OCLC:

645097870