Dark matter in the universe /

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"Version: 20140901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author biography -- 1. The need for dark matter -- 2. The formation of structure and dark matter in Galaxies -- 3. Cold dark matter, hot dark matter, and their alternatives4. Types of dark matter -- 4.1. WIMPs -- 4.2. SuperWIMPs -- 4.3. Sterile neutrinos -- 4.4. Axions5. Indirect detection of dark matter -- 5.1. WIMPs -- 5.2. SuperWIMPs -- 5.3. Sterile neutrinos6. Direct detection of dark matter -- 6.1. WIMPs -- 6.2. Axions -- 6.3. Detection of WIMPs and superWIMPs in particle colliders7. What the future holds -- 7.1. Primary anisotropy in the CMB -- 7.2. Scenario 1 : dark matter is composed of neutralinos -- 7.3. Scenario 2 : dark matter is composed of gravitinos -- 7.4. Scenario 3 : dark matter is composed of sterile neutrinos -- 7.5. Scenario 4 : dark matter is 'hidden' -- 7.6. Concluding remarks.The study of dark matter, in both astrophysics and particle physics, has emerged as one of the most active and exciting topics of research in recent years. This book reviews the history behind the discovery of missing mass (or unseen mass) in the universe, and ties this into the proposed extensions to the Standard Model of Particle Physics (such as Supersymmetry), which were being proposed within the same time frame. This book is written as an introduction to these problems at the forefront of astrophysics and particle physics, with the goal of conveying the physics of dark matter to beginning undergraduate majors in scientific fields. The book goes on to describe existing and upcoming experiments and techniques, which will be used to detect dark matter either directly or indirectly.Astrophysicists, researchers, students.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.Marc Seigar is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He is also the Director of the Marshall W Alworth Planetarium at UMD. Prior to his arrival at UMD, he worked as a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, a Project Scientist at the University of California, Irvine, and a Staff Astronomer at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT). Professor Seigar has published numerous papers and conference proceedings articles in the field of galaxy dynamics, spiral structure, and dark matter.Title from PDF title page (viewed on October 1, 2015).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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English

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9781681741185

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SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
Dark matter (Astronomy)
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Cosmology and the universe.

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Marc S. Seigar.

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