Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory

Graduate Student Series in Physics

David Bailin, Alexander Love - Collection Graduate student series in physics

313 pages, parution le 23/09/2004

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This book is devoted to the cosmological implications of the gauge theories of particle physics and of string theory. It presumes some prior knowledge of these subjects, such as that provided in the authors' previous books Introduction to Gauge Field Theory and Supersymmetric Gauge Field Theory and String Theory, but it is self-contained. Like the earlier books it is intended as an introductory textbook for a first course on the subject at graduate student level.

As it cooled after the hot big bang, it is likely that the universe passed through a series of phase transitions in which the successive gauge symmetries of the higher-temperature phase were spontaneously broken. The survival to the present of relics of these phase transitions is discussed, as is that of more generic relics (baryons, neutrinos, axions) and supersymmetric particles (neutralinos and gravitinos).

Recent observations confirm that the universe is very flat and extremely homogeneous. The most plausible explanation of this is that the universe passed through an inflationary era. The constraints on the presumed underlying field theory are studied and the possibility of satisfying these in a supersymmetric theory or in supergravity theory is discussed.

Finally, black hole solutions of the supergravity theory that approximates string theory at low energies are considered, and the insight that string theory affords into the microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is discussed.

Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory will provide a modern introduction to these important problems from a particle physicist's perspective.

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The standard model of cosmology
Phase transitions in the early universe
Topological defects
Baryogenesis
Relic neutrinos and axions
Supersymmetric dark matter
Inflationary cosmology
Inflation in supergravity
Superstring cosmology
Black holes in string theory

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Institute of Physics (IOP)
Auteur(s)	David Bailin, Alexander Love
Collection	Graduate student series in physics
Parution	23/09/2004
Nb. de pages	313
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	558g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750304924
ISBN13	978-07-5030-492-4