Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter
Author: Neil John Curwen Spooner
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2003
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789812791313

This book contains written versions of the presentations made at the 4th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (IDM 2002), held in York, UK, in September 2002. The objective of this workshop series is to assess the status of work attempting to identify what constitutes dark matter OCo in particular, to consider the techniques being used, how successful they are, and what new techniques are likely to improve prospects for identifying likely dark matter candidates in the future. At IDM 2002 special emphasis was placed on recent results obtained in searches for baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter. The proceedings include reviews of major topics on dark matter, as well as short contributed talks."

The Fourth International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and Their Origin

The Fourth International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and Their Origin
Author: Y. Suzuki
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789812703101

Annotation. Contents: Status and Future Prospects of Reactor Neutrinos, Solar Neutrinos, and Supernova Neutrinos; Status and Future Prospects of Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments, Atmospheric Neutrinos; Dark Matter Searches and Double Beta Decays; Lepton Number Violated Muon Decays; Proton Decay Searches; Neutrino Phenomenology and Model Building.

Neutrino Oscillations And Their Origin, Proceedings Of The 4th International Workshop

Neutrino Oscillations And Their Origin, Proceedings Of The 4th International Workshop
Author: Masayuki Nakahata
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2004-05-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814485586

The discovery of neutrino oscillations in 1998 initiated efforts to form a group to work on the detailed study of the phenomenon; this study is now supported by a grant-in-aid in the specific field of neutrinos from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. The aim of this working group is to put together the efforts from various fields necessary for understanding neutrino oscillations in detail from both the experimental and the theoretical point of view. The 4th International Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and Their Origin was held to discuss recent progress in both experimental and theoretical study.

Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe

Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe
Author: David B. Cline
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662045877

Dark matter research is one of the most fascinating and active fields among current high-profile scientific endeavours. It holds the key to all major breakthroughs to come in the fields of cosmology and astroparticle physics. The present volume is particularly concerned with the sources and the detection of dark matter and dark energy in the universe and will prove to be an invaluable research tool for all scientists who work in this field.

The primordial universe - L'univers primordial

The primordial universe - L'univers primordial
Author: P. Binetruy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2007-07-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540453342

This book reviews the interconnection of cosmology and particle physics over the last decade. It provides introductory courses in supersymmetry, superstring and M-theory, responding to an increasing interest to evaluate the cosmological consequences of these theories. Based on a series of extended courses providing an introduction to the physics of the very early universe, in the light of the most recent advances in our understanding of the fundamental interactions, it reviews all the classical issues (inflation, primordial fluctuations, dark matter, baryogenesis), but also introduces the most recent ideas about what happened at the Big Bang, and before.

Weigh Them All!

Weigh Them All!
Author: Sunny Vagnozzi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2020-08-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030535029

The three neutrinos are ghostly elementary particles that exist all across the Universe. Though every second billions of them fly through us, they are extremely hard to detect. We used to think they had no mass, but recently discovered that in fact they have a tiny mass. The quest for the neutrino mass scale and mass ordering (specifying how the three masses are distributed) is an extremely exciting one, and will open the door towards new physics operating at energy scales we can only ever dream of reaching on Earth. This thesis explores the use of measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (the oldest light reaching us, a snapshot of the infant Universe) and maps of millions of galaxies to go after the neutrino mass scale and mass ordering. Neutrinos might teach us something about the mysterious dark energy powering the accelerated expansion of the Universe, or about cosmic inflation, which seeded the initial conditions for the Universe. Though extremely baffling, neutrinos are also an exceptionally exciting area of research, and cosmological observations promise to reveal a great deal about these elusive particles in the coming years.

Electronic Excitations in Liquefied Rare Gases

Electronic Excitations in Liquefied Rare Gases
Author: Werner F. Schmidt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2005
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Electronic Excitations in Liquefied Rare Gases is a unique and only reference source that reviews the research and development of liquefied rare gases, which took place over a period of last 50 years. Liquefied rare gases are the simplest dielectric liquids, which are insulators from a physical point of view. While the gaseous and solid state of matter have received intensive attention from the begining of modern science, the knowledge about liquids remained undocumented so far. Liquids exhibit local order as solids and long-range disorder as gases. Fundamental problems related to the generation, transport and recombination of charge carriers in liquefied rare gases could be studied under controlled conditions since liquid samples of extremely high purity can be prepared. Liquefied rare gases have found applications in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and materials science. In this volume, world-leading scientists have summarized the knowledge gained about electronic processes in these liquids. The topics are interesting for scientists working in fundamental research as well for those applying liquefied rare gases in experimental or technical devices. The book contains 15 review chapters on different aspects of liquefied rare gases. Such an in depth compilations of knowledge in this field has not been published as of today. The topics of this book concentrate on the processes of electronic excitation, which are of general fundamental interest and have found applications in detectors for high energy physics, light sources for the extreme ultraviolet, etc. just to name a few.

TAUP ...

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Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2003
Genre: Cosmology
ISBN:

Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics

Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics
Author: Tony M. Liss
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2006-12-13
Genre: Science
ISBN:

This is a conference that explores areas of common interest between nuclear physicists, high energy (particle) physicists, and astrophysicists. These areas range from studies of the strong interactions that bind the nuclei together, to physics of the very early Universe. They include such topics as the detailed behavior of neutrinos and searches for "new physics", that is phenomena that cannot be accounted for by our current theories.

Topical Workshop on Low Radioactivity Techniques

Topical Workshop on Low Radioactivity Techniques
Author: Bruce Cleveland
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2005-09-21
Genre: Science
ISBN:

This workshop examined the state-of-the-art of all techniques for measuring radioactivity at ultra-low activity levels as well as all aspects of the development of low-background detectors. Such detectors are needed to study physical processes that can only be observed when all sources of interfering background are reduced to a very low level. These techniques are essential to develop next generation detectors for neutrino research, solar neutrino physics, and neutrino astrophysics, as well as measurement of the double beta-decay process and the search for dark matter in the universe. Topics covered include experimental radio-purity requirements, methods for shielding detectors from cosmic rays and local radioactivity, methods for the measurement of impurities in bulk materials, in gases, and on surfaces, techniques for materials purification, and related subjects. The workshop marked the beginning of excavation for the new international facility for deep underground particle astrophysics (SNOLAB), located in Sudbury, Canada.