Journal•ISSN: 2212-6864
Physics of the Dark Universe
Elsevier BV
About: Physics of the Dark Universe is an academic journal published by Elsevier BV. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Physics & Dark matter. It has an ISSN identifier of 2212-6864. Over the lifetime, 878 publications have been published receiving 18931 citations.
Topics: Physics, Dark matter, Dark energy, Universe, Cosmology
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TL;DR: The recent detection by Advanced LIGO of GW from the merging of a binary black hole system sets new limits on the merging rates of massive primordial black holes (PBH) that could be a significant fraction or even the totality of the dark matter in the Universe.
582 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suppress the tails of the point spread function and generate high-resolution gamma-ray maps, enabling them to more easily separate the various gamma ray components, and find the GeV excess to be robust and highly statistically significant, with a spectrum, angular distribution and overall normalization that is in good agreement with that predicted by simple annihilating dark matter models.
484 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the effective dynamics of the inflaton field presents a near-inflection point which slows down the field right before the end of inflation and gives rise to a prominent spike in the fluctuation power spectrum at scales much smaller than those probed by CMB and Large Scale Structure (LSS) observations.
445 citations
University of Oslo1, Heidelberg University2, University of Geneva3, University of Oxford4, University of Barcelona5, Aix-Marseille University6, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology7, University of Manchester8, RWTH Aachen University9, King's College London10, Stockholm University11, Imperial College London12, ETH Zurich13, Leiden University14, Durham University15, University of Portsmouth16, Lund University17, Case Western Reserve University18, Universidade Estadual de Londrina19, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro20, University of Stavanger21, University of Szczecin22, University of Cambridge23, University of Pennsylvania24, University of Paris25, University of Lisbon26, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study27, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris28
TL;DR: There is a persistent interest in extending cosmology beyond the standard model, ΛCDM, motivated by a range of apparently serious theoretical issues, involving such questions as the cosmological constant problem, the particle nature of dark matter, the validity of general relativity on large scales, the existence of anomalies in the CMB and on small scales, and the predictivity and testability of the inflationary paradigm as mentioned in this paper.
378 citations
TL;DR: A wide range of experiments, such as direct dark matter searches exploiting microwave cavities, searches for solar axions or WISPs, and lightshining-through-a-wall searches, can probe large parts of this parameter space in the foreseeable future as mentioned in this paper.
329 citations