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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822666403321

Titolo

Astroparticle Physics : proceedings of the first NCTS workshop : Kenting, Taiwan, 6-8 December 2001 / / editors, Husain Athar, Guey-Lin Lin, Kin-Wang Ng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, c2002

ISBN

1-281-92938-7

9786611929381

981-277-686-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 184 p. ) : ill. (some col.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AtharHusain

LinGuey-Lin

NgKin-Wang

Disciplina

523.0197

Soggetti

Neutrino astrophysics

Particles (Nuclear physics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The first NCTS Workshop on Astroparticle Physics was held at Kenting National Park, Taiwan, from December 6th to December 8th, 2001"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Lectures. The highest energy cosmic rays, gamma-rays and neutrinos: facts, fancy and resolution / F. Halzen -- Big Bang nucleosynthesis, implications of recent CMB data and supersymmetric dark matter / K. Olive -- Invited talks. Research program of the TEXENO collaboration: status and highlights / H.T.-K. Wong and J. Li -- New results from AMS cosmic ray measurements / M.A. Huang -- Measurement of attenuation length in rock salt and limestone in radio wave for ultra-high energy neutrino detector / M. Chiba ... [et al.] -- Expected performance of a neutrino telescope for seeing AGN/GC behind a mountain / George W.S. Hou and M.A. Huang -- Galactic high-energy cosmic-ray tau neutrino flux / K. Cheung ... [et al.] -- On non hadronic origin of high energy neutrinos / H. Athar and G.-L. Lin -- Questions in cosmology and particle astrophysics / W.-Y.P. Hwang -- Noncommutative early universe / P.-M. Ho -- Cosmological constant, quintessence and mini-universes / X.-G. He -- Stability of the anisotropic brane cosmology /



W.F. Kao -- Dark energy, primordial magnetic fields, and time-varying fine-structure constant / K.-W. Ng.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains detailed articles by theorists and experimentalists in the newly developing field of astroparticle physics. A large variety of topics are covered. These include the role of neutrinos in astroparticle physics, big bang nucleosynthesis, string theory and cosmology.