Matter, Dark Matter, and Anti-Matter In Search of the Hidden Universe /

• Main Authors: Mazure, Alain (Author), Le Brun, Vincent (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Nuclear physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.

For over ten years, the dark side of the universe has been headline news. Detailed studies of the rotation of spiral galaxies, and 'mirages' created by clusters of galaxies bending the light from very remote objects, have convinced astronomers of the presence of large quantities of dark (u...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Author's preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of illustrations
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Matter concentrated
• Chapter 3: The realm of the nebulae
• Chapter 4: Getting warmer...
• Chapter 5: Cosmic Cluedo: where, when, and how?
• Chapter 6: 300,000 years on: all present and correct
• Chapter 7: Cosmic canvas
• Chapter 8: Lifting the veil: simulations
• Chapter 9: A constant search
• Chapter 10: From telescopes to accelerators
• Appendices.