Searching for dark matter with cosmic gamma rays /

"Searching for Dark Matter with Cosmic Gamma Rays" summarizes the evidence for dark matter and what we can learn about its particle nature using cosmic gamma rays. It has almost been 100 years since Fritz Zwicky first detected hints that most of the matter in the Universe that doesn't...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Albert, Andrea (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]
Collection:IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP concise physics.
Sujets:
Dark matter (Astronomy)
Gamma rays.
Nuclear astrophysics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
SCIENCE / Astronomy.
SCIENCE / Cosmology.
Astrophysics, Cosmology and the universe.
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Table des matières:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Observational and theoretical motivation for particle dark matter
  • 2.1. Gravitational evidence for dark matter halos
  • 2.2. Weakly interacting massive particles
  • 2.3. Other particle dark matter candidates
  • 3. Investigating dark matter with cosmic gamma rays
  • 3.1. Calculating the expected gamma-ray flux
  • 4. Recent results and unexplained anomalies from gamma-ray dark matter searches
  • 4.1. Searches for axion signatures
  • 4.2. Search for gamma-ray spectral lines
  • 4.3. Searches for dark matter subhalos
  • 4.4. Galaxy clusters
  • 4.5. EGRET GeV excess
  • 4.6. The galactic center
  • 4.7. Milky Way dwarf galaxies
  • 4.8. Overview of recent results
  • 5. Future outlook
  • 5.1. New instruments and targets
  • 5.2. Complementarity with terrestrial searches
  • 6. Conclusion.

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