Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
- Presents a new and sensitive means of searching for the possible interaction of dark matter with ordinary matter
- Considers new mechanisms for the induction of a cosmological evolution of the fundamental constants
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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This thesis explores the possibility of searching for new effects of dark matter that are linear in g, an approach that offers enormous advantages over conventional schemes, since the interaction constant g is very small, g<<1. Further, the thesis employs an investigation of linear effects to derive new limits on certain interactions of dark matter with ordinary matter that improve on previous limits by up to 15 orders of magnitude. The first-ever limits on several other interactions are also derived.
Astrophysical observations indicate that there is five times more dark matter—an ‘invisible’ form of matter, the identity and properties of which still remain shrouded in mystery—in the Universe than the ordinary ‘visible’ matter that makes up stars, planets, dust and interstellar gases. Conventional schemes for the direct detection of dark matter involve processes (such as collisions with, absorption by or inter-conversion with ordinary matter) that are either quartic (g4) or quadratic (g2) in an underlying interaction constant g.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Manifestations of Dark Matter and Variations of the Fundamental Constants in Atoms and Astrophysical Phenomena
Authors: Yevgeny V. Stadnik
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63417-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63416-6Published: 28 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87550-7Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63417-3Published: 19 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 88
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory