Bibliographic Details
| Author / Creator: | Merle, Alexander, author.
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| Imprint: | San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2017]
Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2017]
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| Description: | 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
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| Language: | English |
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| Series: | [IOP release 3]
IOP concise physics, 2053-2571
IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP concise physics.
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| Format: | E-Resource
Book
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11319996 |
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Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.
Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9781681744810
9781681744834
9781681744803
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| Notes: | "Version: 20170301"--Title page verso.
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Also available in print.
Alexander Merle was born in Arad, Romania, close to the famous region of Transylvania. After his emmigration to Germany at the tender age of two months, he grew up in the middle of Bavaria before entering the academic world. He is old enough to still hold the by now discontinued degree of a 'Diplom-Physiker' (Dipl.-Phys. Univ.) from Munich University of Technology in 2006. He obtained his PhD from Heidelberg University in 2009. He left Germany to be a postdoc in Stockholm, Sweden, before he progressed by securing a Marie Curie Fellowship with the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He subsequently returned to Germany where he took on a Senior Postdoc position at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute) in Munich, Germany, where he is supervising a small group of PhD and Masters students. Dr. Merle's main research fields are theoretical elementary particle physics and cosmology, with a particular focus on neutrinos, Dark Matter, and their interconnections. He has written more than 60 papers on various topics, some even reaching out to neighboring fields such as mathematics or condensed matter physics, and some being cross-field collaborations with colleagues from, e.g. experimental physics or astronomy. He is an active contributor to the field of keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter, having discovered the production mechanism (FIMP scalar decay) that is currently in best agreement with data, having written a topcite review on model building aspects of keV sterile neutrinos, and having made several proposals on how to corner these particles with contemporary experiments. His reputation in the field is reflected by him being one of four main editors, section editor, and corresponding author of Adhikari et al 2017 A White paper on keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. JCAP01(2017)025, which is the most comprehensive document that exists on the topic.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on April 10, 2017).
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| Summary: | This book is a new look at one of the hottest topics in contemporary science, Dark Matter. It is the pioneering text dedicated to sterile neutrinos as candidate particles for Dark Matter, challenging some of the standard assumptions which may be true for some Dark Matter candidates but not for all. So, this can be seen either as an introduction to a specialized topic or an out-of-the-box introduction to the field of Dark Matter in general. No matter if you are a theoretical particle physicist, an observational astronomer, or a ground-based experimentalist, no matter if you are a grad student or an active researcher, you can benefit from this text, for a simple reason: a non-standard candidate for Dark Matter can teach you a lot about what we truly know about our standard picture of how the Universe works.
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| Target Audience: | Suitable for anybody starting from graduate or senior undergraduate student level in physics or astronomy. While the main target group is graduate students who want to start working on the topic, the text is equally suitable for active researchers who either aim to enter the topic or who are already experts in one of the fields involved but want to get introduced to other aspects of sterile neutrino Dark Matter. A basic knowledge of the standard models of particle physics and of cosmology is needed to understand the text, however, many aspects are briefly reviewed, too.
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| Other form: | Print version: 9781681744803
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| Standard no.: | 10.1088/978-1-6817-4481-0
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