1999/04/27 by A. Bottino, Bottino, A., N. Fornengo +1
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9904469
31 pages, 8 figures, Lectures given at the Fifth School on Non-Accelerator Particle Astrophysics (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, June-July 1998), to appear in the School Proceedings (Eds. R.A. Carrigan, Jr., G. Giacomelli and N. Paver)
In these lectures we first briefly review the main observational facts which imply that most part of matter in the Universe is not visible and some recent intriguing experimental data which would point to a significant contribution to Omega due to a cosmological constant. We subsequently discuss some particle candidates for dark matter, with particular emphasis for the neutralino. We present the main properties of this particle, also in the light of the most recent experimental results in direct search for relic particles; furthermore, we discuss the perspectives for their indirect searches.