The Identification of Dark Matter: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop, Rhodes, Greece, 11-16 September 2006

by Axenides, Minos; Fanourakis, George; Vergados, John

• ISBN13: 9789812708526
• ISBN10: 9812708529
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Cosmology and Dark Matter at the LHC	p. 1
Experimental Searches for Dark Matter	p. 12
Dark Matter in SUGRA, Strings and Branes	p. 25
Studying Supersymmetry with Dark Matter Experiments	p. 37
Is the Dark Matter Interpretation of the EGRET Gamma Ray Excess Compatible with Antiproton Measurements?	p. 43
Status of the EDELWEISS II Experiment	p. 51
XENON	p. 58
Mass Estimates of Dark Matter Bodies from the Timescale of Quasar Variation	p. 65
New Signatures in Direct Dark Matter Searches	p. 71
Prospects for Direct Dark Matter Searches in the Constrained MSSM	p. 81
MACCHIOs as Cold Dark Matter	p. 87
Neutralino Clumps and Cosmic Rays	p. 108
Search for a Dark Matter Annihilation Signal in the TeV Range with H.E.S.S.	p. 115
Dark Matter Clumps in the Galaxy	p. 122
The Bullet Cluster 1E0657-56: Implications for Dark Matter and Galaxy Evolution	p. 128
Overview of the ZEPLIN Two-Phase Program	p. 135
The Second Phase of the PICASSO Experiment	p. 144
Investigations on Dark Matter and on Some Rare Processes by DAMA: Past, Present and Future	p. 150
The First Halos	p. 158
Gravitino Dark Matter and the Implications	p. 166
What an Astrophysicist Can Tell About the Nature of Dark Matter?	p. 172
MIMAC-He3: MIcro-tpc MAtrix of Chambers of [superscript 3]He	p. 180
The Transition Radiation Detector of AMS-02 to Search for Dark Matter in Space	p. 186
The CRESST Dark Matter Search	p. 192
The ArDM Experiment	p. 198
DAMA/LXe at LNGS: Results and Perspectives	p. 204
A Possible LMC Halo Contribution to Microlensing	p. 211
Limits on the MACHOS from EROS-2	p. 217
Status of the GENIUS-Test-Facility with Naked Germanium Detectors in Liquid Nitrogen	p. 222
Indirect Dark Matter Searches with the MAGIC Telescope	p. 231
Dark Matter NaI Searches at CANFRANC: Status of ANAIS	p. 237
XMASS Experiment	p. 243
Measuring the Daemon-Flux Seasonal Maxima at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory	p. 248
Threshold Improvements in Scintillation Experiments by Photon Individuation	p. 256
Measurement of the Scintillation Efficiency of Na Recoils in NaI(Tl) Down to 10 keV Nuclear Recoil Energy Relevant to Dark Matter Searches	p. 262
Constraining Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter Through Multiwavelength Observations of Sgr A	p. 268
Prospect of AMS Experiment for Dark Matter	p. 273
Search for Dark Matter with Space Experiments	p. 282
The ZEPLIN III Detector: Results from Surface Calibrations	p. 288
WIMPs Search by Exclusive Measurements with Thin Multilayer NaI(Tl) Scintillators (PICO-LON)	p. 296
High Performance Scintillating Bolometers in the Search for WIMPS: ROSEBUD Experiment	p. 302
Detector Performance of the NEWAGE Experiment	p. 308
The DRIFT-II Dark Matter Detector	p. 314
Detection of VUV Scintillation Light in One Ton of Liquid Argon	p. 325
Optimizing WIMP Directional Detectors	p. 331
The ZEPLIN-II Two-Phase Xenon Dark Matter Detector: Status Report	p. 337
Liquid Rare Gases and Inorganic Scintillators for WIMP Searches	p. 344
Neutralino-Neutralino Annihilation to [gamma]Z in MSSM	p. 350
Axion: Past, Present and Future	p. 357
Overlooked Astrophysical Signatures of Axion(-like) Particles	p. 372
Micromegas for Rare Event Detection	p. 382
Photon Regeneration Plans	p. 388
Axino Dark Matter from Q-Balls	p. 396
Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter	p. 403
Neutrino-Less Double Beta Decays and Neutrino Masses. The Present and Future Experiments	p. 412
A New View on the Future of Nuclear Double Beta Decay	p. 423
The GERDA Neutrinoless-Double-Beta Decay Experiment	p. 433
Majorana Dark Matter	p. 439
IceCube, the World's Largest Dark Matter Detector	p. 450
The ANTARES Detector	p. 457
HELYCON: Towards a Sea-Top Infrastructure	p. 464
Solving Cosmological Problem in Universal Extra Dimension Models by Introducing Dirac Neutrino	p. 489
Neutron Background in Large-Scale Dark Matter Detectors	p. 501
Background Studies for a Ton-Scale Argon Dark Matter Detector (ArDM)	p. 508
Characterization of the Canfranc Underground Laboratory: Status and Future Plans	p. 514
First Measurement of Low Intensity Fast Neutron Background from Rock at the Boulby Underground Laboratory	p. 520
Simulation of Shielding Designs for Future Large-Scale Dark Matter Search Experiments	p. 526
Simulation of Inelastic Neutron Scattering with GEANT4	p. 531
Calculation of Neutron Yield from Radioactivity in Materials Relevant to Dark Matter Searches	p. 537
Backgrounds and Threshold of XENON10 Dark Matter Experiment	p. 542
Background Reduction for Germanium Double Beta Decay Detectors	p. 549
Background Studies of the PN-CCD Detector of CAST	p. 554
ZEPLIN II Event Reconstruction	p. 559
Three Dimensional Track Reconstruction in DRIFT-II	p. 565
On the Sensitivity of Superfluid [superscript 3]He Bolometers for ULTIMA	p. 571
ZEPLIN II Active Veto	p. 576
Bekenstein-Sanders Tensor-Vector-Scalar Theory and Cosmology	p. 582
Cosmology from XMM High-Z AGN Clustering	p. 589
Modeling the Galaxy/Light-Mass Connection with Cosmological Simulations	p. 596
CDM Abundance in Non-Standard Cosmologies	p. 602
Probing Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae	p. 609
Relaxation Dark Energy in Non-Critical String Cosmologies and Astrophysical Data	p. 623
Trapped Quintessential Inflation from Flux Compactifications	p. 635
Observational Signature of Extended Gravity Theories	p. 647
Akaike Model Selection Criterion Applied to Supernovae Data	p. 655
DM Halos Interacting with DE. Implications to Direct DM Detection	p. 662
EURECA - The European Underground Rare Event Calorimeter Array	p. 668
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