Introduction to Non-Baryonic Dark Matter

Abstract

These lectures on non-baryonic dark matter matter are divided into two parts. In the first part, I discuss the need for non-baryonic dark matter in light of recent results in cosmology, and I present some of the most popular candidates for non-baryonic dark matter. These include neutrinos, axions, neutralinos, WIMPZILLAs, etc. In the second part, I overview several observational techniques that can be employed to search for WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) as non-baryonic dark matter. Among these techniques, I discuss the direct detection of WIMP dark matter, and its indirect detection through high-energy neutrinos, gamma-rays, positrons, etc.

Lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Frontiers of the Universe", 8-20 Sept 2003, Cargese, France; 50 pages, 28 figures

References in corpus (48)

• First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters
• Observational evidence for self-interacting cold dark matter
• A 2MASS All-Sky View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: I. Morphology of the Sagittarius Core and Tidal Arms
• Direct constraints on the dark matter self-interaction cross-section from the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56
• Non-Baryonic Dark Matter - Observational Evidence and Detection Methods
• Stellar Orbits Around the Galactic Center Black Hole
• Dark matter annihilation at the galactic center
• High Proper Motion Stars in the Vicinity of Sgr A*: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
• Neutralino Relic Density including Coannihilations
• Near-infrared flares from accreting gas around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre
• Rapid X-ray flaring from the direction of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre
• The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: The bias of galaxies and the density of the Universe
• Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter
• The Stellar Cusp Around the Supermassive Black Hole in the Galactic Center
• Neutrinos in cosmology
• Sterile Neutrino Hot, Warm, and Cold Dark Matter
• Superheavy dark matter
• Neutralino Dark Matter in Focus Point Supersymmetry
• The Kinematics, Orbit, and Survival of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
• Cosmological dark matter annihilations into gamma-rays - a closer look
• Nonthermal Supermassive Dark Matter
• Weakly Self-Interacting Dark Matter and the Structure of Dark Halos
• An Improved RF Cavity Search for Halo Axions
• Improved Exclusion Limits from the EDELWEISS WIMP Search
• A Test of the Collisional Dark Matter Hypothesis from Cluster Lensing
• Dark Matter Spikes and Annihilation Radiation from the Galactic Center
• Sagittarius Tidal Debris 90 kpc from the Galactic Center
• Spectral Gamma-ray Signatures of Cosmological Dark Matter Annihilation
• Sneutrino Cold Dark Matter With Lepton-Number Violation
• Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays, Superheavy Long-Living Particles, and Matter Creation after Inflation
• Brane-world dark matter
• The cosmic ray positron excess and neutralino dark matter
• The Effects of the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream on Dark Matter Detectors
• Detectability of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles in the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream
• Implications of muon anomalous magnetic moment for supersymmetric dark matter
• Indirect Detection of Dark Matter in km-size Neutrino Telescopes
• Limits on Collisional Dark Matter from Elliptical Galaxies in Clusters
• Recoil momentum spectrum in directional dark matter detectors
• Low Pressure Negative Ion Drift Chamber for Dark Matter Search
• Supersymmetry and the positron excess in cosmic rays
• Signatures of Hierarchical Clustering in Dark Matter Detection Experiments
• Limits to the muon flux from WIMP annihilation in the center of the Earth with the AMANDA detector
• Minimal Theoretical Uncertainties in Inflationary Predictions
• Improved constraints on supersymmetric dark matter from muon g-2
• Indirect detection of a subdominant density component of cold dark matter
• Gamma-Ray Summary Report
• Neutrinos and Dark Matter
• Neutrinos from the Big Bang

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• The first WIMPy halos
• Phenomenological constraints on accretion of non-annihilating dark matter on the PSR B1257+12 pulsar from orbital dynamics of its planets
• Is Dark Matter Heavy Because of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking? Revisiting Heavy Neutrinos
• Particle Physics in the Sky and Astrophysics Underground: Connecting the Universe's Largest and Smallest Scales