Matter in the Universe
Subtitle: Proceedings of an ISSI Workshop 19-23 March 2001, Bern, Switzerland
By: edited by Ph. Jetzer, K. Pretzl, R. Steiger
Contributors: Pretzl, K.; Steiger, R.
Series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI -- 14; Space Sciences Series of ISSI -- 14
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9789048160389; 9789401722155
Subjects: Nuclear physics; Physics
Other titles: Proceedings of an ISSI Workshop, 19-23 March 2001, Bern, Switzerland
Description: The knowledge of the amount and nature of matter present in the Universe is undoubtedly one of the most relevant topics in astrophysics and cosmology. It started with the pioneering work of Zwicky in 1933, who found the need for a large amount of dark matter in the Coma cluster. An important step has been the recent finding through the observation of distant type Ia supernovae of the presence of a significant vacuum energy density causing an accelerating expansion of the Universe. Nevertheless, the nature of most of the matter in the Universe is still unknown. Its solution requires the interplay of several fields of astrophysics and cosmology as well as particle physics, all of which are covered in this volume: Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, large scale structures, galaxy clusters, intergalactic absorption, dark matter components of galaxies, globular clusters, supernovae of type Ia distance measurements, gravitational lensing, X-ray observations, Lyman-alpha observations, dark energy, direct detection of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPS), detection of neutrino oscillations, particle candidates for dark matter, and Big Bang nucleosynthesis of baryonic matter.
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Table of contents: title: From the contents: Foreword; title: I: CMB and Large-Scale Geometry; title: II: Large-Scale Structure and Clusters; title: III: Galaxies and Components of Galaxies; title: IV: Candidates for Dark Matter; title: V: Dark Energy; title: VI: Dark Matter Detection; title: VII: Element Abundances; title: VIII: Conclusions; title: Author Index.-List of Participants.