Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics, 2002 Proceedings of the International Conference DARK 2002, Cape Town, South Africa, 4–9 February 2002

The Fourth HEIDELBERG International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro­ and Particle Physics, DARK2002, was held in Cape Town, South Africa, in the period 4-9 February 2002. This majestic natural area was the site of the first conference of this series (hosted since 1996 in Heidelberg) to be held outside of Germany. Dark Matter has become one of the most exciting and central fields of as­ trophysics, particle physics and cosmology. The conference covered, as usual for this series, a large range of topics, theoretical and experimental. Topics included Astronomical Evidence for Dark Matter, the Cosmic Microwave Background, Supersymmetry, Inflation and Dark Energy, Structure Formation, Hot and Cold Dark Matter, and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays all of which were represented by experts in the field. It was very nice to see again many of our 'old' friends in Dark Matter here in South Africa. The organizers were very glad to see, in addition to world experts, the new generation here. Many young participants gave very nice professional talks during the conference. We are grateful to John Ellis for doing an incredible job preparing his excellent summary talk during the sessions. Some special interest and intensive discussions were naturally raised by the first announcement of terrestrial evidence for hot dark matter, obtained from neutrino less double beta decay. This now adds to the evidence for cold dark matter which we have from DAM A for several years already, and which remained unchallenged up to now by other experiments.

Large-Scale Structure from Galaxy and Cluster Surveys.- The Dark Mass at the Center of the Milky Way.- Dim Matter in the Disks of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies.- Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei.- Comparison of Black Hole and Fermion Ball Scenarios of the Galactic Center.- Dark Matter and Baryons in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies.- Baryonic Dark Matter and Machos.- The Next Generation Microlensing Search: SuperMacho.- Dynamics of Dark Matter Cusps.- Testing Hierarchical Structure Formation Scenarios.- Cosmology Rounding the Cape.- Large Scale Structure in an Era of Precision CMB Measurements.- Astrophysical Constraints on Neutralino Dark Matter from Multifrequency Observations of Galaxy Clusters.- On the Formation of Degenerate Heavy Fermion Stars.- The Self-Gravitating Fermi Gas.- Dark Matter in the Halo of the Galaxy.- Supersymmetry and Dark Matter.- On WIMP Detection Rates in Constrained SUSY.- Status of Supersymmetry in the Light of Recent Experiments.- Theoretical Directional and Modulated Rates for Direct SUSY Dark Matter Detection.- Nonthermal Production of Gravitinos and Inflatinos in the Inflationary Universe.- Supersymmetric Dark Matter and Recent Experimental Constraints.- Axinos as Cold Dark Matter Candidate.- LEP Constraints on Susy Dark Matter.- Cosmology from Large Scale Structure.- Natural Quintessence and the Brane World.- Self-Tuning Solution of the Cosmological Constant Problem with Antisymmetric Tensor Field.- Bad News for Tracking Quintessence.- Gauged Inflation.- Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Chaplygin Gas.- Dark Matter Distribution from Gravitational Entropy Evolution.- Cosmology with a Long-Range Repulsive Force.- Constraining Dark Matter Candidates from Structure Formation.- Dark Matter-Photon Interactions: Are They Allowed?.- Scalar Field Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation.- Status of Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay.- Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Revisited - Reply to a Comment.- Neutrinos: Summarizing the State-of-the-Art.- New Constraints on Massive Degenerate Neutrinos from Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis and Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations.- Neutrino Mass from Tritium ? Decay.- KATRIN: The Future of Tritium Beta Decay Experiments.- WIMP Search by the DAMA Experiment at Gran Sasso.- GENIUS and GENIUS-TF - The Potential for Cold Dark Matter and Solar Neutrino Searches.- ZEPLIN III — A Two Phase Xenon Dark Matter Detector.- ZEPLIN IV: A One Ton WIMP Detector.- Status of Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments at the Boulby Mine.- Dark Matter Search in the EDELWEISS Experiment.- The CRESST Dark Matter Search Status and Future.- The Status of SIMPLE in 2002.- Atmospheric Neutrinos, WIMPs and Monopoles: Physics with the AMANDA Neutrino Telescope.- Dark Matter Prospects with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope.- Results and Implications of First SNO.- Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments.- Future Underground Laboratory in Finland.- Clustering, GUT Scale and Neutrino Masses in Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays.- Cosmic Anti-Matter and Dark Matter Searches with AMS-02 on the International Space Station ISS.- Absolute Neutrino Mass Phenomenology.- DARK 2002 and Beyond, Concluding Remarks for Dark 2002.- Author IndeX.- List of Participants.