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Dark matter : evidence, theory, and constraints

By: Language: English Series: Princeton series in astrophysics ; 64Publication details: Princeton University Press 2024 Princeton, New JerseyDescription: ix, 328p. ill. (some color)ISBN:
  • 9780691249520 (PB)
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Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Viral Theorem and Spherical Collapse -- Chapter 3. Rotation Curves -- Chapter 4. Gravitational Lensing and X-Rays -- Chapter 5. Cosmology Toolkit -- Chapter 6. Cosmological Evidence for Dark Matter -- Chapter 7. Particle Physics and the Standard Model -- Chapter 8. Massive Neutrinos as Dark Matter? -- Chapter 9. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles -- Chapter 10. Axions: The Prototype of Wavelike DM -- Chapter 11. Primordial Black Holes -- Chapter 12. WIMP Direct Detection -- Chapter 13. WIMP Astrophysics and Indirect Detection -- Chapter 14. Axion Direct Detection -- Chapter 15. Astrophysical Axion Bounds -- Chapter 16. Constraints on PBHs -- Chapter 17. Epilogue: The DM Candidate Zoo
Summary: This is graduate-level "pedagogical monograph" on the subject of dark matter, a component of the universe that is thought to account for about 85% of the matter in the universe and the presence of which is discerned from its gravitational interactions rather than its luminosity
Item type: BOOKS List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals (16 July 2026)
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Includes index

Includes bibliography (pp. 319- 325) and references

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Viral Theorem and Spherical Collapse -- Chapter 3. Rotation Curves -- Chapter 4. Gravitational Lensing and X-Rays -- Chapter 5. Cosmology Toolkit -- Chapter 6. Cosmological Evidence for Dark Matter -- Chapter 7. Particle Physics and the Standard Model -- Chapter 8. Massive Neutrinos as Dark Matter? -- Chapter 9. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles -- Chapter 10. Axions: The Prototype of Wavelike DM -- Chapter 11. Primordial Black Holes -- Chapter 12. WIMP Direct Detection -- Chapter 13. WIMP Astrophysics and Indirect Detection -- Chapter 14. Axion Direct Detection -- Chapter 15. Astrophysical Axion Bounds -- Chapter 16. Constraints on PBHs -- Chapter 17. Epilogue: The DM Candidate Zoo

This is graduate-level "pedagogical monograph" on the subject of dark matter, a component of the universe that is thought to account for
about 85% of the matter in the universe and the presence of which is discerned from its gravitational interactions rather than its
luminosity

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