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The cosmic cocktail : three parts dark matter /
The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe-from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars-constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter and dark energy, because their precise identities are unknown. The Cosmic Cocktail is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Science essentials (Princeton, N.J.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- ONE The Golden Era of Particle Cosmology, or How I Joined the Chicago Mafia
- New York City
- Fermilab: The Atom Smasher in the Prairie
- Chicago: A New Zeitgeist in Cosmology
- Dunkle Materie: The Dark Enigma
- WIMPs at Harvard
- TWO How Do Cosmologists Know Dark Matter Exists?: The Beginning of the Dark Matter Story
- What Do Galaxies Look Like?
- Observational Evidence for Dark Matter
- Formation of Galaxies and Clusters
- Dark Matter Dominates
- THREE The Big Picture of the Universe: Einstein and the Big Bang
- Geometry of the Universe
- Cosmic Microwave Background
- Outer Space and the Queen of Sweden
- Pie Picture of the Universe
- FOUR Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Proves That Atomic Matter Constitutes Only 5% of the Universe
- 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
- FIVE What Is Dark Matter?
- 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
- SIX The Discovery of the Higgs Boson
- Atom Smashers: The Large Hadron Collider
- CERN
- Discovery of the Higgs
- SEVEN The Experimental Hunt for Dark Matter Particles
- 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
- EIGHT Claims of Detection: Are They Real?
- Direct Detection in Underground Laboratories
- Indirect Detection of WIMP Annihilation: Positrons, Neutrinos, and Gamma Rays.
- The Future of Dark Matter Experiments
- NINE Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe
- Rounding Out the Universe: Type IA Supernovae and Dark Energy
- The Future of the Universe
- Epicycles
- Epilogue
- Afterword: Dark Stars
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index.