Multi-messenger Astronomy and Dark Matter
by Las Bergstrom
Publisher: arXiv 2012
Number of pages: 105
Description:
These notes are of introductory nature and should be suitable for graduate students and postdocs wanting to learn the basics of astroparticle physics and cosmology, with special focus on the question of the nature and detection methods of particle dark matter.
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