Overview
- Provides a starting part for graduate students and senior scientists in the field of axions and axion-like particles
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 741)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Observations and Experiments
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Axions are peculiar hypothetical particles that could both solve the CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and at the same time account for the dark matter of the universe. Based on a series of lectures by world experts in this field held at CERN (Geneva), this volume provides a pedagogical introduction to the theory, cosmology and astrophysics of these fascinating particles and gives an up-to-date account of the status and prospect of ongoing and planned experimental searches. Learners and practitioners of astroparticle physics will find in this book both a concise introduction and a current reference work to a showcase topic that connects the “inner space” of the elementary particle world with the “outer space” of the universe at large.
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"The motivation of this book was to provide a starting point for graduate students and senior researchers in the field of axions and axion-like particles. The book gives a broad overview on the theoretical reason of axions and axion-like particles, their implication for cosmology and astrophysics, their role as a well-known dark-matter candidate, and experimental axion searches." (Claudia-Veronika Meister, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1157, 2009)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Axions
Book Subtitle: Theory, Cosmology, and Experimental Searches
Editors: Markus Kuster, Georg Raffelt, Berta Beltrán
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73518-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-73517-5Published: 07 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09263-3Published: 18 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-73518-2Published: 10 December 2007
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 245
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology