Systeme der Virtuellen Realität (VR) stellen neue Herausforderungen an die Art und Weise der Systembedienung. Die Übertragung herkömmlicher 2D orientierter WIMP-Schnittstellen (Windows, Icon, Menue, Pointer) erweist sich hier häufig als ungeeignet. In diesem Zusammenhang verfolgt die vorgestellte Arbeit den Ansatz, VR-Interaktionen über natürliche menschliche Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten mit Ges...

The Dark Matter part of the universe presumably consists of WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). The ArDM project aims at measuring signals induced by WIMPs in a liquid argon detector. A 1-ton prototype is currently developed with the goal of demonstrating the feasibility of such a direct detection experiment with large target mass. The technical design of the detector aims at independ...

We exhibit a model in which a single pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson explains dark energy, inflation and baryogenesis. The model predicts correlated signals in future collider experiments, WIMP searches, proton decay experiments, dark energy probes, and the PLANCK satellite CMB measurements.

The GLAST Large Area Telescope [1], scheduled for launch in 2006, is a next generation space based gamma ray telescope which will improve in point source sensitivity by a factor of 30 over that of EGRET [2] below 10 GeV, and extend beyond EGRET up to 300 GeV. Thus GLAST offers a unique opportunity to discover WIMP dark matter through precision studies of gamma rays produced in pair annihilation...

WIMPs, weakly-interacting massive particles, have been leading candidates for particle dark matter decades, and they remain a viable highly motivated possibility. In these lectures, I describe the basic motivations beginning with WIMP miracle its under-appreciated cousin, discrete miracle. then give an overview of some features WIMPs how to find them. These lectures conclude variations on theme...