Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and Our Solar System

by Prakash, Nirmala

• ISBN13: 9789814304535
• ISBN10: 9814304530
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-31
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and Our Solar System is a unique enterprise that portrays the connection between cosmology, particle and nuclear physics, and atmospheric and terrestrial physics. Constituents of dark matter (classified as hot, warm and cold) are studied in detail with regard to their individual structures (baryonic and non-baryonic, massive and non-massive, interacting and non-interacting) and their detection facilities. Neutrinos (an important component of dark matter) are treated as a separate entity. A detailed study describes these elusive particles researched from the year 1913, as byproducts of beta-decay until the discovery in 2007 that their flavors were not more than three (as considered by some). The last chapter of the book is unique as it deals with real-time stories, describing the "regions" that were not explored thus far for lack of advanced technology. Their untold fascinating stories (which span up to 2009) are illustrated here datewise in full detail.