Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2001
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PARTICLE PHYSICS AND THE UNIVERSE. Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 109. Held 20-25 August 1998 in Haga Slott, Enköping, Sweden. E
Physics
Dark Matter
Scientific paper
For the first time, we have a plausible and complete accounting of matter and energy in the Universe. Expressed a fraction of the critical density it goes like this: neutrinos, between 0.3% and 15%; stars, between 0.3% and 0.6%; baryons (total), 5% ± 0.5%; matter (total), 40% ± 10%; smooth, dark energy, 80% ± 20%; totaling to the critical density (within the errors). This accounting is consistent with the inflationary prediction of a flat Universe and measurements of the anisotropy of the CBR. It also defines three "dark problems": Where are the dark baryons? What is the nonbaryonic dark matter? What is the nature of the dark energy? The leading candidate for the (optically) dark baryons is diffuse hot gas; the leading candidates for the nonbaryonic dark matter are slowly moving elementary particles left over from the earliest moments (cold dark matter), such as axions or neutralinos; the leading candidates for the dark energy involve fundamental physics and include a cosmological constant (vacuum energy), a rolling scalar field (quintessence), and a network of light, frustrated topological defects.
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