Identification of Dark Matter

by Spooner, Neil J. C.

• ISBN13: 9789812563446
• ISBN10: 981256344X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

The prestigious Identification of Dark Matter workshop series was initiated to assess the status of work that attempts to identify the constitution of dark matter. In particular, it aims to review the success of current methods that are used in the search for dark matter, as well as the new techniques that are likely to improve prospects for detecting possible dark matter candidates in the future. In the 5th International Workshop, special emphasis was placed on the recent results obtained in experiments searching for baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter. This volume comprises the high-quality review articles and papers contributed by leaders and promising young physicists who attended the conference. It provides the most recent updates on dark matter searches from both experimental and theoretical points of view.

Table of Contents

Six years of dark energy : present and prospects	p. 1
Locked quintessence and cold dark matter	p. 11
The cluster soft excess : new faces of an old enigma	p. 18
XMM observations of high redshift X-ray clusters and cosmological interpretation	p. 25
Dark energy and non-linear perturbations	p. 31
Cosmological singularities and dark energy	p. 37
Emergence of space-time localization and cosmic decoherence : more on irreversible time, dark energy, anti-matter and black-holes	p. 43
Dark matter on galactic scales (or the lack thereof)	p. 49
Galactic models and the search for dark matter	p. 59
Weighing the dark matter halo	p. 65
Cold dark matter flows and caustics	p. 71
Small-scale dark matter clumps	p. 81
The prolate shape of the galactic dark matter halo	p. 87
A bird's eye view of M31 and its satellite galaxies	p. 92
Dark matter halos : shapes, the substructure crisis, and indirect detection	p. 98
The power spectrum of CDM and sub-galactic scales	p. 104
SUSY dark matter	p. 110
Searches for supersymmetry at high energy colliders	p. 122
CP phases, dark matter and the b quark mass	p. 128
Neutralino dark matter in supergravity theories with non-universal scalar and gaugino masses	p. 135
RIP : the MACHO era (1974-2004)	p. 141
Baryonic dark matter - an outsider's view	p. 151
Evidence for dark matter in the form of compact bodies	p. 159
Identification of black-hole dark matter	p. 165
News from the dark mass at the center of the Milky Way	p. 171
Microlensing events towards LMC and M31	p. 177
Some consequences of the baryonic dark matter population	p. 183
DAMA : results and perspectives	p. 189
CDMS Soudan first results and status	p. 200
From EDELWEISS-I to EDELWEISS-II	p. 206
The CRESST dark matter search	p. 212
ZEPLIN I : first limits on nuclear recoil rate	p. 218
Limits on WIMP cross-sections from the NAIAD experiment at Boulby	p. 224
Recent results from the SIMPLE dark matter search	p. 230
Status of KIMS experiment searching for WIMP with CsI(Tl) crystals	p. 236
DRIFT : status and prospects	p. 242
XMASS experiment	p. 248
Status of ZEPLIN II and ZEPLIN III	p. 254
Status and plans for the XENON dark matter experiment	p. 260
An engineering design study for a large-scale xenon WIMP detector	p. 277
Status of the ANAIS experiment at Canfranc	p. 283
Model independent experiment limits on spin-dependent WIMPs	p. 289
WIMP direct detection : halo modelling and small scale structure	p. 295
Some issues related to the direct detection of SUSY dark matter	p. 301
Can WIMP spin dependent couplings explain DAMA?	p. 309
Direct detection of neutralino dark matter in the NMSSM	p. 315
Spherical statistics for WIMP direct detection	p. 321
Dark matter signal and signal modulation for a cold flow	p. 327
Exploiting the materials signature in cryogenic WIMP detectors	p. 333
The GENIUS-test-facility and the HDMS detector in Gran Sasso	p. 339
WARP : a WIMP double phase argon detector	p. 348
COUPP, a heavy-liquid bubble chamber for WIMP detection	p. 355
MIMAC-HE3 : a new detector for non-baryonic dark matter search	p. 360
The ULTIMA project : ultra-low temperature instrumentation for measurements in astrophysics	p. 366
R&D status of the NEWAGE experiment	p. 372
Dark matter search with direction sensitive scintillators	p. 378
Performance of a scintillating sapphire bolometer for the ROSEBUD experiment	p. 384
Development of low background CsI(Tl) crystals	p. 390
Properties of liquid rare gas scintillation for WIMP searches	p. 396
Low temperature tests of photomultipliers for use in liquid xenon experiments	p. 402
Detection of dark electric matter objects falling out from Earth-crossing orbits	p. 408
First results from the CERN axion solar telescope (CAST)	p. 414
PVLAS results on laser production of axion-like dark matter candidate particles	p. 420
Status of the axion dark-matter experiment (ADMX)	p. 426
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso and the ILIAS initiative	p. 432
Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane : status and projects at Frejus site	p. 440
The Canfranc underground laboratory : present and future	p. 447
The Boulby underground laboratory	p. 453
SNOLAB	p. 460
Neutron studies at the Canfranc underground laboratory	p. 465
Study of the Muon-induced neutron background with the LVD detector	p. 471
Status of neutron background study in CRESST	p. 477
Neutron background in a time projection chamber for WIMP searches	p. 483
Simulation of low energy neutron recoils with GEANT4	p. 489
Simulations of Muon-induced neutron background with GEANT4	p. 494
Muon-induced neutron production and detection with GEANT4 and FLUKA	p. 499
Veto performance for large-scale xenon dark matter detectors	p. 505
Measurement of low level neutron fluxes : status and prospects	p. 511
CRESST II background discrimination : detection of [superscript 180]W natural decay in a pure [alpha]-spectrum	p. 517
Indirect detection of neutralinos	p. 523
EGRET excess of diffuse galactic gamma rays interpreted as a signal of dark matter annihilation	p. 533
Indirect dark matter searches with the AMS-02 detector in space	p. 544
Search for dark matter with GLAST and PAMELA	p. 551
Dark matter search by high-energy gamma rays and electrons with CALET	p. 557
The ANTARES neutrino telescope and its dark matter capabilities	p. 563
Indirect searches for Kaluza-Klein dark matter	p. 569
Superheavy dark matter	p. 575
Seismic moon search for strange quark matter	p. 581
Direct neutrino mass experiments	p. 587
The search for [theta][subscript 13] with the Double-Chooz experiment	p. 598
NOSTOS : a new low-energy neutrino experiment	p. 607
Neutrino, other bursts in cosmology	p. 615
Present and future of neutrinoless double beta decay experiments	p. 623
First evidence for lepton number violation and the Majorana character of neutrinos	p. 633
Results from CUORICINO and prospects for CUORE	p. 647
The EXO double beta decay experiment	p. 653
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