The Early UniverseThe Early Universe has become the standard reference on forefront topics in cosmology, particularly to the early history of the Universe. Subjects covered include primordial nubleosynthesis, baryogenesis, phases transitions, inflation, dark matter, and galaxy formation, relics such as axions, neutrinos and monopoles, and speculations about the Universe at the Planck time. The book includes more than ninety figures as well as a five-page update discussing recent developments such as the COBE results. |
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... Neutrino Cosmology 139 5.6 Concluding Remarks 151 5.7 References 152 6. BARYOGENESIS 6.1 Overview 157 6.2 Evidence for a Baryon Asymmetry 158 6.3 The Basic Picture 160 6.4 Simple Boltzmann Equations 168 6.5 Damping of Pre - Existing ...
... Neutrino Cosmology 139 5.6 Concluding Remarks 151 5.7 References 152 6. BARYOGENESIS 6.1 Overview 157 6.2 Evidence for a Baryon Asymmetry 158 6.3 The Basic Picture 160 6.4 Simple Boltzmann Equations 168 6.5 Damping of Pre - Existing ...
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... neutrino of mass less than about 45 GeV and all but eliminates a heavy neutrino as a dark matter candidate . The search for the top quark goes on at this very moment at the Tevatron , with a current lower mass limit of 113 GeV . The ...
... neutrino of mass less than about 45 GeV and all but eliminates a heavy neutrino as a dark matter candidate . The search for the top quark goes on at this very moment at the Tevatron , with a current lower mass limit of 113 GeV . The ...
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... neutrinos of mass 7 eV or so , leads to the suppression of fluctuations on small scales because of the free streaming of neutrinos ( see Section 9.4 ) . The third variant involves a modification of the spectrum of perturbations . A ...
... neutrinos of mass 7 eV or so , leads to the suppression of fluctuations on small scales because of the free streaming of neutrinos ( see Section 9.4 ) . The third variant involves a modification of the spectrum of perturbations . A ...
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... neutrino sector . Majorana neutrino masses violate lepton number , and for large enough masses this L violation together with electroweak B + L violation can completely erase any baryon asymmetry ( 26 ) . Moreover , it could be that a ...
... neutrino sector . Majorana neutrino masses violate lepton number , and for large enough masses this L violation together with electroweak B + L violation can completely erase any baryon asymmetry ( 26 ) . Moreover , it could be that a ...
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... neutrino masses . Our optimism for the future must be tempered by the realization that some problems in cosmology never seem to reach closure . In a classic paper written in 1961 ( 30 ) , Sandage discussed how the 200 inch Hale ...
... neutrino masses . Our optimism for the future must be tempered by the realization that some problems in cosmology never seem to reach closure . In a classic paper written in 1961 ( 30 ) , Sandage discussed how the 200 inch Hale ...
Contents
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ROBERTSONWALKER METRIC | 29 |
STANDARD COSMOLOGY | 47 |
BIGBANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS | 87 |
THERMODYNAMICS IN THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE | 115 |
BARYOGENESIS | 157 |
PHASE TRANSITIONS | 195 |
INFLATION | 261 |
STRUCTURE FORMATION | 321 |
AXIONS | 401 |
TOWARD THE PLANCK EPOCH | 447 |
FINALE | 491 |
APPENDIX A | 499 |
APPENDIX B | 507 |
INDEX | 535 |
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