Exploring and constraining new physics in the dark sector

The standard cosmological model that has emerged in the last decades describes an acceleratingly expanding universe where the familiar baryonic matter accounts for a very small fraction of the overall energy budget. The vast majority of the energy content of the Universe appears to belong to an elus...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43460