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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
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| Serie: | Princeton frontiers in physics.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv27qzsd4 |
Sommario:
- 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.