List of contributors .......................................... xii
Preface ...................................................... xvii
Acknowledgements ............................................... xx
List of symbols and abbreviations ............................. xxi
Part I Dark matter in cosmology ................................ 1
1 Particle dark matter ......................................... 3
G. Bertone and J. Silk
1.1 Introduction ............................................ 3
1.2 The baryon budget ....................................... 4
1.3 The case for cold dark matter: good news and bad news ... 5
1.4 Portrait of a suspect ................................... 7
1.5 Observing cold dark matter ............................. 10
1.6 The future ............................................. 12
2 Simulations of cold dark matter haloes ...................... 14
B. Moore and J. Diemand
2.1 Prom cold collapse to hierarchical clustering -
a brief history ........................................ 14
2.2 Results from collisionless simulations ................. 17
2.3 Predictions for direct and indirect detection
experiments ............................................ 34
3 Milky Way satellites ........................................ 38
J. Bullock, M. Kaplinghat and L. Strigari
3.1 Satellite galaxies ..................................... 38
3.2 Streams ................................................ 46
3.3 Central profiles and the nature of dark matter ......... 48
3.4 Indirect detection of dark matter from Milky Way
satellites ............................................. 51
3.5 Future prospects ....................................... 55
4 Gravitational lensing and dark matter ....................... 56
Y. Mellier
4.1 Introduction ........................................... 56
4.2 Gravitational lensing theory ........................... 57
4.3 Evidence for dark matter from strong lenses ............ 63
4.4 Cold dark matter confronted to gravitational lenses .... 65
4.5 Hot dark matter: limits on neutrino masses from
lensing ................................................ 77
4.6 Dark matter or modified gravity? ....................... 78
4.7 Conclusion and outlook ................................. 80
5 Dark matter at the centres of galaxies ...................... 83
D. Merritt
5.1 Phenomenology of galactic nuclei ....................... 83
5.2 Dark matter models ..................................... 86
5.3 Dark matter in collisionless nuclei .................... 88
5.4 Dark matter in collisional nuclei ...................... 92
5.5 The Galactic centre .................................... 94
5.6 Dwarf spheroidal galaxies .............................. 97
6 Modified gravity as an alternative to dark matter ........... 99
J. D. Bekenstein
6.1 Missing mass in galaxies and clusters of galaxies ...... 99
6.2 The MOND scheme ....................................... 102
6.3 Modified gravity theory for MOND ...................... 105
6.4 TeVeS and other relativistic MOND theories ............ 109
6.5 Gravitational lenses and cosmology in TeVeS ........... 112
Part II Candidates ........................................... 119
7 DM production mechanisms ................................... 121
G. Gelmini and P. Gondolo
7.1 Dark matter particles: relics from the pre-BBN era .... 121
7.2 Thermal production in the standard cosmology .......... 123
7.3 Non-thermal production in the standard cosmology ...... 130
7.4 Thermal and non-thermal production in non-standard
cosmologies ........................................... 133
8 Supersymmetric dark matter candidates ...................... 142
J. Ellis and K.A. Olive
8.1 Motivations ........................................... 142
8.2 The MSSM and R-parity ................................. 144
8.3 Possible supersymmetric dark matter candidates ........ 147
8.4 Renormalization-group equations and electroweak
symmetry breaking ..................................... 151
8.5 The CMSSM ............................................. 153
8.6 mSUGRA ................................................ 159
8.7 Other possibilities ................................... 161
8.8 Summary ............................................... 162
9 Dark matter at the electroweak scale: non-supersymmetric
candidates ................................................. 164
G. Servant
9.1 New symmetries at the TeV scale and dark matter ....... 166
9.2 Dark matter from extra dimensions: Kaluza-Klein DM .... 167
9.3 Little Higgs dark matter .............................. 182
9.4 Dark matter in technicolour and composite Higgs
theories .............................................. 183
9.5 Mirror dark matter .................................... 183
9.6 'Minimal' approaches .................................. 184
9.7 WIMPonium ............................................. 188
9.8 Connecting dark matter and the baryon asymmetry ....... 188
9.9 Conclusion ............................................ 189
10 Non-WIMP candidates......................................... 190
J.L. Feng
10.1 Motivations ........................................... 190
10.2 SuperWIMP dark matter ................................. 191
10.3 WIMPless dark matter .................................. 198
11 Axions ..................................................... 204
P. Sikivie
11.1 Introduction .......................................... 204
11.2 Axion production in the early Universe ................ 208
11.3 Relic density and primordial velocity dispersion ...... 219
11.4 Axion miniclusters .................................... 222
11.5 Axion isocurvature perturbations ...................... 224
12 Sterile neutrinos .......................................... 228
M. Shaposhnikov
12.1 Particle physics motivation ........................... 228
12.2 Cosmological and astrophysical constraints on
sterile neutrino dark matter .......................... 232
12.3 Sterile neutrino production in the early Universe ..... 239
12.4 Conclusions ........................................... 247
Part III Collider searches .................................... 249
13 SUSY searches at the LHC ................................... 251
T. Plehn and G. Polesello
13.1 Discovery channels .................................... 252
13.2 LHC measurements ...................................... 255
13.3 Parameter extraction .................................. 264
13.4 Dark matter and the LHC ............................... 274
13.5 Outlook ............................................... 275
14 Supersymmetric dark matter at colliders .................... 276
M. Battaglia and M.E. Peskin
14.1 Introduction .......................................... 276
14.2 Questions for the collider experiments ................ 279
14.3 Dark matter at hadron colliders ....................... 285
14.4 Dark matter at lepton colliders ....................... 293
14.5 Collider measurements and astrophysical questions ..... 303
15 Extra dimensions at the LHC ................................ 306
K. Kong, K. Matchev and G. Servant
15.1 Flat extra dimensions (UED) ........................... 306
15.2 Warped extra dimensions ............................... 311
15.3 SUSY-UED discrimination at the LHC .................... 317
16 SUSY tools ................................................. 325
F. Boudjema, J. Edsjö and P. Gondolo
16.1 Annihilation cross-section and the relic density ...... 326
16.2 Direct detection ...................................... 331
16.3 Indirect detection .................................... 334
16.4 Exploring the parameter space ......................... 338
16.5 Interface with collider and precision measurements
codes ................................................. 340
Part IV Direct detection ...................................... 345
17 Direct detection of WIMPs .................................. 347
D.G. Cerdeño and A.M. Green
17.1 Introduction .......................................... 347
17.2 Event rate ............................................ 347
17.3 Astrophysics input .................................... 353
17.4 Signals ............................................... 356
17.5 Particle physics input ................................ 362
18 Annual modulation signature with large mass highly
radiopure Nal(Tl)
R. Bernabei and P. Belli ................................... 370
18.1 The annual modulation signature and the target
material .............................................. 370
18.2 The DAMA/NaI and DAMA/LIBRA experiments ............... 373
18.3 The model-independent results ......................... 374
18.4 The corollary quests for the candidate particle(s) .... 379
18.5 Comparison with other activities ...................... 380
18.6 Future perspectives ................................... 381
19 Particle dark matter and the DAMA/NaI and DAMA/
LIBRA annual modulation effect ............................. 383
N. Fornengo
19.1 The DAMA annual modulation effect ..................... 383
19.2 Supersymmetric candidates ............................. 386
19.3 Additional candidates ................................. 389
20 Cryogenic detectors ........................................ 391
G. Gerbier and J. Gascon
20.1 Introduction .......................................... 391
20.2 Principles of operation of solid state cryogenic
detectors ............................................. 392
20.3 Single parameter detectors ............................ 398
20.4 Ionization phonon bolometers .......................... 401
20.5 Scintillation phonon bolometers ....................... 404
20.6 МАСНеЗ ................................................ 409
20.7 Prospects for 1 ton detectors ......................... 410
21 Liquid noble gases ......................................... 413
E. Aprile and L. Baudis
21.1 Noble liquids for dark matter detection ............... 413
21.2 Two-phase XeTPCs: XENON, ZEPLIN and LUX ............... 420
21.3 Two-phase ArTPCs: WArP and ArDM ....................... 428
21.4 Single-phase detectors: XMASS, DEAP/CLEAN ............. 432
22 Directional detectors ...................................... 437
N. Spooner
22.1 Direct dark matter detection technologies and
directionality ........................................ 437
22.2 The directional signature and statistics .............. 438
22.3 Directional detector concepts ......................... 440
22.4 Gas detector physics - diffusion and straggling ....... 442
22.5 TPC gamma background rejection and energy threshold ... 447
22.6 TPC neutron background rejection, solar neutrinos
and radon ............................................. 450
22.7 Electronic noise and other background ................. 452
22.8 WIMP detection and directional sensitivity
in practice ........................................... 452
22.9 Head-tail recoil discrimination, theory and
experiment ............................................ 456
22.10Experimental status and readout technology ............ 457
22.11Scale-up and a future WIMP telescope .................. 463
23 Axion searches ............................................ 467
S. Asztalos
23.1 Constraints on axion properties ....................... 468
23.2 Conclusions ........................................... 487
Part V Indirect detection and astrophysical constraints ....... 489
24 Gamma-rays ................................................. 491
L. Bergström and G. Bertone
24.1 Annihilation .......................................... 491
24.2 Decaying dark matter .................................. 496
24.3 Galactic centre ....................................... 497
24.4 Substructures ......................................... 499
24.5 The extragalactic signal .............................. 504
24.6 Connection between antimatter and gamma-ray signal .... 505
25 High-energy neutrinos from WIMP annihilations in the Sun ... 507
F. Halzen and D. Hooper
25.1 Searching for dark matter with neutrinos .............. 507
25.2 The capture and annihilation of WIMPs in the Sun ...... 509
25.3 The neutrino spectrum ................................. 511
25.4 Neutrino telescopes ................................... 513
25.5 The case of neutralino dark matter .................... 516
25.6 The case of Kaluza-Klein dark matter .................. 518
26 Indirect dark matter detection with cosmic antimatter ...... 521
P. Salati, F. Donato and N. Fornengo
26.1 Production of antimatter in the Galaxy ................ 521
26.2 Propagation of antinuclei in the Galaxy ............... 521
26.3 Antiprotons in cosmic rays ............................ 524
26.4 Antideuterons in cosmic rays .......................... 532
26.5 Positrons in cosmic rays .............................. 537
26.6 Conclusions ........................................... 546
27 Multi-wavelength studies ................................... 547
S. Profumo and P. Ullio
27.1 Introduction .......................................... 547
27.2 The multi-wavelength approach and galaxy clusters ..... 556
27.3 The multi-wavelength approach and dwarf galaxies ...... 559
27.4 The multi-wavelength approach and the Milky Way ....... 561
27.5 Radio observations .................................... 563
27.6 Conclusions and overview .............................. 564
28 Particle dark matter and Big Bang nucleosynthesis .......... 565
K. Jedamzik and M. Pospelov
28.1 Introduction .......................................... 565
28.2 Standard BBN theory ................................... 567
28.3 Observed light element abundances ..................... 569
28.4 Cascade nucleosynthesis from energy injection ......... 573
28.5 Residual DM annihilation during BBN ................... 576
28.6 Catalysed BBN (CBBN) .................................. 579
28.7 DM production during BBN: NLSP → LSP example ......... 583
29 Dark matter and stars
G. Bertone ................................................. 586
29.1 DM capture and annihilation in stars .................. 587
29.2 The Earth and other planets ........................... 589
29.3 Main-sequence stars ................................... 591
29.4 Compact objects ....................................... 593
29.5 Pop III stars ......................................... 599
References .................................................... 602
Index ......................................................... 736
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