What is dark matter? /

"This concise book introduces readers in the physical sciences (and beyond) to the exciting frontier topic of dark matter - a mysterious, non-luminous form of matter in the universe that is thought to account for about 27% of the mass-energy balance in the universe. Though dark matter has not y...

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Autor principal: Fisher, Peter, 1959- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Col·lecció:Princeton frontiers in physics.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv27qzsd4
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: The dark matter problem
  • Some background
  • Evidence for dark matter from astronomy
  • Normal matter : the standard model
  • What dark matter is not
  • Searching for wimps on earth
  • Searching for dark matter in space
  • Searching for axions
  • 8 Epilogue.