Matter in the Universe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. CMB and Large-Scale Geometry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Physics of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies and Primordial Fluctuations

      • Ruth Durrer

      Pages 3-14

   3. Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Observations

      • R. Rebolo

      Pages 15-28

   4. Weak and Strong Lensing Statistics

      • N. Straumann

      Pages 29-38

3. Large-Scale Structure and Clusters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Formation

      • Joseph Silk

      Pages 41-47

   3. Galaxy Clusters as Probes for Matter in the Universe

      • Hans Böhringer

      Pages 49-60

   4. The Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect: Recent Work

      • Y. Rephaeli

      Pages 61-72

   5. Dark Matter from Weak Gravitational Lensing

      • Y. Mellier

      Pages 73-87

   6. Baryons in the Diffuse Intergalactic Medium

      • D. Reimers

      Pages 89-99

4. Galaxies and Components of Galaxies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. The Galactic Halo from Microlensing

      • Alain Milsztajn

      Pages 103-115

   3. Clouds and Diffuse Baryonic Dark Matter

      • Ph. Jetzer

      Pages 117-127

   4. Mass Distribution in Our Galaxy

      • Ortwin Gerhard

      Pages 129-138

5. Candidates for Dark Matter

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139

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   2. Quantum Field Theoretic Description of Matter in the Universe

      • M. H. Thoma

      Pages 141-151

   3. Axions

      • Georg Raffelt

      Pages 153-158

   4. Supersymmetric Relics

      • John Ellis

      Pages 159-173

   5. Dark Quark ‘Stars’: Do They Matter for ΩMatter?

      • Sonja Kabana, Peter Minkowski

      Pages 175-192

This volume, the fourteenth in the Space Sciences Series of ISS/, is dedicated to the matter in the universe, which was the topic of a workshop organized by ISSI from 19 to 22 March 2001 in Bern. The aim of the meeting was to gather ac­ tive researchers from various fields (cosmology, astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics as well as space science) to asses the exciting new developments in the search for abundant and yet unknown forms of matter in the universe. Due to the importance of the field and the rapid developments which are taking place ISSI decided to organize a workshop on matter in the universe and invited nine convenors, John Ellis, Johannes Geiss, Philippe Jetzer, Heinrich Leutwyler, Klaus Pretzl, Rafael Rebolo, Norbert Straumann, Gustav Andreas Tammann and Rudolf von Steiger, who formulated the aims and goals of the meeting. The work­ shop was organized such as to have only plenary sessions with typically half­ hour presentations and ample time for discussions. The last day was devoted to conclusions and future objectives. The knowledge of the amount and nature of matter present in the universe is undoubtedly one of the most relevant topics oftoday's astrophysics and cosmology.

• Big Bang
• Cosmology
• Dark matter
• Gravity
• Relativistic jet
• Universe
• astrophysics

• institut für Theoretische Physik, ETH und Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Ph. Jetzer

• Laboratory of High Energy Physics, Universität Bern, Switzerland

  K. Pretzl

• International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

  R. Steiger

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