Dark matter

David N. Spergel

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Abstract

I review the evidence for the "missing mass" and discusses several of the proposed candidates: baryons, neutrinos, axions and WIMPs. Baryonic dark matter, the simplest hypothesis, is not consistent with a flat universe and standard big bang light element nucleosynthesis. The non-detection of time of flight delay in the arrival time of the neutrinos from SN1987a rules out the electron neutrino as a galactic dark matter candidate. Observations of dwarf galaxy may rule out any neutrino species as a viable dark matter candidate. Baryonic dark matter, black holes, axions and WIMPs may be detected or ruled out by current and future experiments.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)66-74
Number of pages9
JournalNuclear Physics B (Proceedings Supplements)
Volume13
Issue numberC
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1990

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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