Dark Matter Astrophysics Export

@article{citeulike:5144906, abstract = {These lectures are intended to provide a brief pedagogical review of dark matter for the newcomer to the subject. We begin with a discussion of the astrophysical evidence for dark matter. The standard weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) scenario--the motivation, particle models, and detection techniques--is then reviewed. We provide a brief sampling of some recent variations to the standard WIMP scenario as well as some alternatives (axions and sterile neutrinos). Exercises are provided for the reader.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {D'Amico, Guido and Kamionkowski, Marc and Sigurdson, Kris}, citeulike-article-id = {5144906}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1912}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.1912}, day = {10}, eprint = {0907.1912}, keywords = {dm, review}, month = {Jul}, posted-at = {2009-07-20 08:06:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Dark Matter Astrophysics}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1912}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5144906 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5144906 N2 - These lectures are intended to provide a brief pedagogical review of dark matter for the newcomer to the subject. We begin with a discussion of the astrophysical evidence for dark matter. The standard weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) scenario--the motivation, particle models, and detection techniques--is then reviewed. We provide a brief sampling of some recent variations to the standard WIMP scenario as well as some alternatives (axions and sterile neutrinos). Exercises are provided for the reader. TI - Dark Matter Astrophysics KW - dm KW - review AU - D'Amico, Guido AU - Kamionkowski, Marc AU - Sigurdson, Kris PY - 2009/Jul/10/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1912 ER -