Physics of the Early Universe: Proceedings of the Thirty Sixth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, Edinburgh, July 24 - August 11 1989J.A Peacock, A.F Heavens, A.T Davies The last decade has witnessed a breathtaking expansion of ideas concerning the origin and evolution of the universe. Researchers in cosmology thus need an unprecedented wide background in diverse areas of physics. Bridging the gap that has developed, Physics of the Early Universe explains the foundations of this subject. This postgraduate-/research-level volume covers cosmology, gauge theories, the standard model, cosmic strings, and supersymmetry. |
Contents
Physical Cosmology | 1 |
The Extragalactic Distance Scale | 17 |
The Content of the Universe | 36 |
The Hot Big Bang | 52 |
Lagrangian field theory | 78 |
Path integral formulation of field theory | 98 |
Scattering amplitudes and Feynman diagrams | 111 |
Renormalisation | 124 |
Inflationary Universe Models and Cosmic Strings | 281 |
Fluctuations from Inflation | 309 |
Cosmological Models and Some Relevant Data | 322 |
Cosmic Strings and Galaxy Formation | 339 |
Cosmological Perturbations | 361 |
The Boltzmann Equation in the Synchronous Gauge | 379 |
Transfer Functions and Characteristic Scales | 394 |
Nonlinear Gravitational Clustering | 430 |
The Standard Model | 145 |
The SU2 U1 Electroweak Theory | 175 |
Shortcomings of the Standard Model and Possible Remedies | 200 |
Grand Unification | 213 |
Beyond gauge theories | 242 |
Superstringinspired Grand Unified Theories | 275 |
The Cold dark Matter Cosmogony | 448 |
Supersymmetric Cosmology | 465 |
Supergravity and Superstrings | 481 |
List of participants addresses | 497 |
Common terms and phrases
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