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The Dark Side of the Universe

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The recent cosmological investigations have shown that dark matter and dark energy have a major role in the composition of the Universe. The existence of dark matter has been inferred by the anomalous rotation curves in spiral galaxies and by the gravitational potential of galaxy clusters. Several candidates for dark matter have been proposed. This chapter presents the techniques for the direct detection of dark matter particles (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, WIMP) through the scattering on nuclei. Then the indirect techniques to detect dark matter based on the emission of gamma rays in the annihilation of WIMPs and the positron excess in cosmic ray observations are presented. A concise discussion of dark energy and the related investigations will be given.

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    http://people.roma2.infn.it/~dama/web/home.html.

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    http://cogent.pnnl.gov/.

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    http://edelweiss.in2p3.fr/.

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    http://cdms.berkeley.edu/.

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    http://www.cresst.de/darkmatter.php.

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    http://xenon.astro.columbia.edu/XENON10_Experiment/.

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    http://darkside.lngs.infn.it/ds-50/.

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    https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/.

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    https://www.lsst.org/.

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    http://cosmology.lbl.gov/BOSS/.

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    http://hetdex.org/.

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    http://wfirst.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

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    Rosa Poggiani

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Poggiani, R. (2017). The Dark Side of the Universe. In: High Energy Astrophysical Techniques. UNITEXT for Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44729-2_16

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