Publisher's Synopsis
The volume contains a collection of reviews covering various indirect cosmological, astrophysical and physical effects of dark matter and physics beyond the Standard Model underlying it. The topics of reviews include theoretical analysis and experimental results of studies of dark matter effects. In particular, there are discussions of problems of large scale structure formation, cosmic ray and gamma background data in confrontation with models of decaying and annihilating dark matter, dark matter effects in stellar evolution, and the search for dark matter at accelerators. The analysis of the whole set of indirect evidence and constraints on dark matter physics will provide an effective test for various models of particle physics beyond the Standard Model.Exploration of this problem bears cross-disciplinary character. In many cases direct experimental studies of the physics of the dark matter is complicated and even impossible, which makes its indirect probes the unique source of information. The reviews contain a set of important information on possible features of dark matter physics, stimulating further development of experimental probes and theoretical studies of extensions of the Standard Model of elementary particles as well as of the structure and evolution of the Universe.
