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Thinking, Observing and Mining the Universe : Proceedings of the International Conference.
Title:
Thinking, Observing and Mining the Universe : Proceedings of the International Conference.
Author:
Miele, Gennaro.
ISBN:
9789812702999
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Invited and Oral Presentations -- Planck-Scale Structure of Spacetime and Some Implications for Astrophysics and Cosmology -- On the Way to the Determination of the Cosmic Ray Mass Composition by the Pierre Auger Fluorescence Detector: The Minimum Momentum Method -- Direct Search for Wimps -- Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays -- Hamiltonian Gravity with Variable G A from the Renormalization Group -- The Axion as a Curvaton in String Cosmology Models -- Structure and Evolution of Cluster Galaxies -- Microlensing Towards M31: Candidates and Perspectives -- Scalar Perturbations in a-Regularised Pre-Big Bang Models -- Cosmological Density of Dark Compact Objects from Observations of Lensed QSOS -- Status of Ligo Interferometers -- Peculiar Velocities Field and the Matter Density of the Universe in Scalar Field Quintessence Models -- Impact of Foregrounds on Cosmic Microwave Background Maps -- Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos -- The Cosmic Renaissance: Reionization Era as the New Cosmological Frontier -- The Energy-Momentum Tensor of Quantum Fluctuations in Chaotic o2 Inflation -- Neutrino Oscillations: A Phenomenological Approach -- Late-Time Effects of Planck-Scale Cosmology: Dilatonic Interpretation of the Dark Energy Field -- Prospects for Exavolt Neutrino Astronomy -- High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy -- Neutrino Cosmology - An Update -- Microlensing Towards the LMC -- Present and Future Neutrino Oscillation Experiments -- Energy Spectra and Chemical Composition of Cosmic Rays in the PEV Region -- Cosmological Parameters and the WMAP Data -- Axion Dark Matter -- Determination of Ho and the Mass Distribution in the Lensing Galaxy from the Time Delay Effect -- The Pierre Auger Observatory Fluorescence Detector.

Laser Interferometer Gw Detectors: A Dwarf and a Giant (Geo 600 and Lisa) -- Cosmic-Rays and Neutralino Dark Matter -- Csl-1: First Evidence for Lensing by a Cosmic String? -- Dark Matter and Supersymmetry -- Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: The Present Position and the Need for Mass Composition Measurements -- The Impact of Model Degeneracies on Cosmological Applications of Gravitational Lensing -- Poster Presentations -- The Atmospheric Monitoring with Lidar for the Pierre Auger Observatory -- VST-VLT Survey Telescope Integration Status -- Curvature Quintessence -- Van Der Waals Quintessence -- Torsion A Term -- Image Analysis Applied to y/Hadron Discrimination in the ARGO-YBJ Experiment -- Antisymmetric Tensor Dynamics in the Early Universe: An Evolving Spacetime Noncommutativity -- The Effect of Cluster Environment on Galaxy Evolution -- Effects of BBN on Population III Stars -- Restrictions on a Geometrical Language in Gravity -- Probing the Galaxy Formation Scenario by the Structural Properties at Redshift z = 0.2 -- GEO 600 - A Short-Arm Laser-Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detector -- LISA - A Long-Arm Laser-Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detector in Space -- An Updated Nuclear Reaction Network for BBN -- Active Star-Forming Galaxies in Pairs in the 2DF -- Constraining Neutrino Magnetic Moments with SOLAR and Reactor Neutrino Data -- Lens Modelling and Ho Estimate in Quadruply Lensed Systems -- Gravitational Lensing as a Tool to Detect Gravitational Waves: Is the Signal Amplification Interesting for Detection? -- Feasibility of a Magnetic Suspension for Gravitational Wave Interferometric Detectors -- List of Participants.
Abstract:
This is a collection of review articles and more specialized papers on the main issues of early universe physics. Both theoretical and experimental fields of research are dealt with. Contents: Direct Search for Wimps (R Bernabei et al.); Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (P Blasi); Structure and Evolution of Cluster Galaxies (G Busarello et al.); Status of Ligo Interferometers (E D'Ambrosio); The Cosmic Renaissance: Reionization Era as the New Cosmological Frontier (S G Djorgovski); High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy (F Halzen); Microlensing Towards the LMC (P Jetzer); Present and Future Neutrino Oscillation Experiments (T Kajita); Axion Dark Matter (E Massó); Dark Matter and Supersymmetry (S Scopel); Curvature Quintessence (S Capozziello et al.); Van Der Waals Quintessence (S Capozziello et al.); Effects of BBN on Population III Stars (F Iocco); An Updated Nuclear Reaction Network for BBN (P D Serpico); Active Star-Forming Galaxies in Pairs in the 2DF (G Sorrentino et al.); and other papers. Readership: Particle physicists interested in the early universe, as well as astrophysicists and cosmologists.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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