The Cosmic Cocktail by Freese, Katherine -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Preface One: The Golden Era of Particle Cosmology, or How I Joined the Chicago Mafia

New York City Fermilab: The Atom Smasher in the Prairie Chicago: A New Zeitgeist in Cosmology Dunkle Materie: The Dark Enigma WIMPs at Harvard

Two: How Do Cosmologists Know Dark Matter Exists? The Beginning of the Dark Matter Story

What Do Galaxies Look Like? Observational Evidence for Dark Matter Formation of Galaxies and Clusters Dark Matter Dominates

Three: The Big Picture of the Universe: Einstein and the Big Bang

Geometry of the Universe Cosmic Microwave Background Outer Space and the Queen of Sweden Pie Picture of the Universe

Four: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Proves That Atomic Matter Constitutes Only 5% of the Universe

A Story about Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Particles in the Early Universe: A Primordial Soup Origins of the Elements Atoms Make Up Only 5% of the Universe

List of Plates

Figure 2.11 Figure 2.13 Figure 2.14 Figure 2.15 Figure 3.10 Figure 3.11 Figure 3.14 Figure 3.18 Figure 6.2 Figure 6.4 Figure 6.7 Figure 8.4 Figure 9.1 Figure 9.3 Figure 9.7

Five: What Is Dark Matter?

Rocks or Dust Matter and Antimatter Neutrinos MACHOs Black Holes The Particle Zoo The WIMP Miracle WIMPs in the Human Body and a Tennis Match

Six: The Discovery of the Higgs Boson

Atom Smashers: The Large Hadron Collider CERN Discovery of the Higgs

Seven: The Experimental Hunt for Dark Matter Particles

The Three Prongs of the Hunt for Dark Matter Dark Matter at the Atom Smasher at CERN: Missing Energy plus Jets What Has CERN Done for Society? Will the LHC Bring Doomsday? Direct Detection: Abandoned Mines, Alpine Tunnels, and Nightclubs in Jerusalem Indirect Detection: Annihilations in Space and at the South Pole

Eight: Claims of Detection: Are They Real?

Direct Detection in Underground Laboratories Indirect Detection of WIMP Annihilation: Positrons, Neutrinos, and Gamma Rays The Future of Dark Matter Experiments

Nine: Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe

Rounding Out the Universe: Type IA Supernovae and Dark Energy The Future of the Universe Epicycles Epilogue

Afterword: Dark Stars Acknowledgments Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Index

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