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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454086903321

Titolo

Thinking, observing and mining the universe [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings of the international conference : Sorrento, Italy, 22-27 September 2003 / / edited by Gennaro Miele, Giuseppe Longo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Hackensack] New Jersey ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2004

ISBN

1-281-89900-3

9786611899004

981-270-299-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MieleGennaro

LongoG (Giuseppe)

Disciplina

523.1

Soggetti

Inflationary universe

Cosmology

Astronomy

Univers inflatoire

Astronomie

Electronic books.

Univers Congrè€s

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents               ; Foreword               ; Invited and Oral Presentations                                     ; Planck-Scale Structure of Spacetime and Some Implications for Astrophysics and Cosmology                                                                                               ; On the Way to the Determination of the Cosmic Ray Mass Composition by the Pierre Auger Fluorescence Detector: The Minimum Momentum Method

Direct Search for Wimps                              Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays                                    ; Hamiltonian Gravity with Variable G A from the Renormalization Group                                                                           ; The Axion as a Curvaton in String Cosmology Models                                                         ; Structure and Evolution of Cluster Galaxies                                                  ; Microlensing Towards M31: Candidates and Perspectives


Scalar Perturbations in a-Regularised Pre-Big Bang Models                                                                Cosmological Density of Dark Compact Objects from Observations of Lensed QSOS                                                                                    ; Status of Ligo Interferometers                                     ; Peculiar Velocities Field and the Matter Density of the Universe in Scalar Field Quintessence Models

Impact of Foregrounds on Cosmic Microwave Background Maps                                                                Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos                                                 ; The Cosmic Renaissance: Reionization Era as the New Cosmological Frontier                                                                                ; The Energy-Momentum Tensor of Quantum Fluctuations in Chaotic o2 Inflation

Neutrino Oscillations: A Phenomenological Approach                                                         Late-Time Effects of Planck-Scale Cosmology: Dilatonic Interpretation of the Dark Energy Field                                                                                                     ; Prospects for Exavolt Neutrino Astronomy                                               ; High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy                                     ; Neutrino Cosmology - An Update                                     ; Microlensing Towards the LMC

Present and Future Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

Sommario/riassunto

This is a collection of review articles and more specialized papers on the main issues of early universe physics. Both theoretical and experimental fields of research are dealt with. <br><i>Contents:</i><ul><li>Direct Search for Wimps <i>(R Bernabei et al.)</i></li><li>Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays <i>(P Blasi)</i></li><li>Structure and Evolution of Cluster Galaxies <i>(G Busarello et al.)</i></li><li>Status of Ligo Interferometers <i>(E D'Ambrosio)</i></li><li>The Cosmic Renaissance: Reionization Era as the New Cosmological Frontier <i>(S G Djorgovski)</i></li><li>High-Energy Neutrino Astron