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Searching for dark matter with cosmic gamma rays /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Albert, Andrea (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]
Series:IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP concise physics.
Subjects:
Dark matter (Astronomy)
Gamma rays.
Nuclear astrophysics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics.
SCIENCE / Astronomy.
SCIENCE / Cosmology.
Astrophysics, Cosmology and the universe.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Observational and theoretical motivation for particle dark matter
  • 2.1. Gravitational evidence for dark matter halos
  • 2.2. Weakly interacting massive particles
  • 2.3. Other particle dark matter candidates
  • 3. Investigating dark matter with cosmic gamma rays
  • 3.1. Calculating the expected gamma-ray flux
  • 4. Recent results and unexplained anomalies from gamma-ray dark matter searches
  • 4.1. Searches for axion signatures
  • 4.2. Search for gamma-ray spectral lines
  • 4.3. Searches for dark matter subhalos
  • 4.4. Galaxy clusters
  • 4.5. EGRET GeV excess
  • 4.6. The galactic center
  • 4.7. Milky Way dwarf galaxies
  • 4.8. Overview of recent results
  • 5. Future outlook
  • 5.1. New instruments and targets
  • 5.2. Complementarity with terrestrial searches
  • 6. Conclusion.