Indirect searches for dark matter
โ Scribed by Barry C. Barish
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 295 KB
- Volume
- 77
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0920-5632
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โฆ Synopsis
The search for dark matter WIMPs is complementary to direct searches and accelerator searches. The status of present searches and prospects for the future are reviewed.
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After briefly recalling the evidence which suggests that the dark matter pervading the universe is nonbaryonic, we review the present searches for the best motivated particle candidates: axions, light neutrinos and Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs).
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