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Observational Status of Dark Matter

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Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology

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Identification of dark matter is one of the most urgent problems in cosmology. I describe the astrophysical case for dark matter, from both an observational and a theoretical perspective. I also review the current status of direct and indirect detection of dark matter, and review the prospects for future advances.

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  1. Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095 CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 98 bis Boulevard Arago, Paris, 75014, France

    Joseph Silk

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3701 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA

    Joseph Silk

  3. Beecroft Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK

    Joseph Silk

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  1. CSIC, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Madrid, Spain

    Gianluca Calcagni

  2. Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 15780, Greece

    Lefteris Papantonopoulos

  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Nielsen Physics Building 210, Knoxville, 37996-1200, Tennessee, USA

    George Siopsis

  4. Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Physics Bldg. 203, Heraklion, 71003, Greece

    Nikos Tsamis

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Silk, J. (2013). Observational Status of Dark Matter. In: Calcagni, G., Papantonopoulos, L., Siopsis, G., Tsamis, N. (eds) Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 863. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33036-0_10

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