Cosmology for physicists / David Lyth
- Author:
- Lyth, D. H. (David Hilary)
- Published:
- Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date:
- ß2017
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations
- Access Online:
- ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series:
- Series in Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Section I Physics -- ch. 1 Particle physics -- 1.1.Special Relativity -- 1.2.Standard Model -- 1.3.Collision And Decay Processes -- 1.4.Conserved Quantities -- 1.5.Natural Units -- 1.6.Neutrino Masses -- 1.7.Neutrinos At Rest -- ch. 2 Curved Spacetime -- 2.1.Spacetime Metric -- 2.2.Four-Vectors And Tensors -- 2.3.Covariant Derivative And D'Alembertian -- 2.4.Equivalence Principle -- 2.5.Curvature Tensor -- 2.6.Geodesics -- ch. 3 General Relativity -- 3.1.Energy-Momentum Tensor -- 3.2.Einstein Field Equation -- 3.3.Schwarzschild Metric And Black Holes -- 3.4.Weak Gravity -- 3.5.Newtonian Gravity -- 3.6.Gravitational Waves -- Section II The Big Bang -- ch. 4 The Present Universe -- 4.1.Stars And Galaxies -- 4.2.Particles In The Universe -- ch. 5 A First Look At The History -- 5.1.The Big Bang And Inflation -- 5.2.Expansion Of The Universe -- 5.3.Collision And Decay Processes -- 5.4.The First Minute -- 5.5.Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) -- 5.6.Last Scattering And Galaxy Formation -- ch. 6 Energy Density Of The Universe -- 6.1.The Cosmological Redshift -- 6.2.Matter And Radiation -- 6.3.The Cosmological Constant -- ch. 7 Thermal Equilibrium -- 7.1.Distribution Functions -- 7.2.Generalised Blackbody Distributions -- 7.3.Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution -- 7.4.Initial Thermal Equilibrium -- 7.5.Electron-Positron Annihilation -- 7.6.Epoch Of Last Scattering -- 7.7.Cosmic Neutrino Background -- ch. 8 Friedmann Equation -- 8.1.Friedmann Equation -- 8.2.Evolution Of The Scale Factor -- 8.3.Distance to the Horizon -- ch. 9 The Geometry of the Universe -- 9.1.Spatial Metric -- 9.2.Homogeneous and Isotropic Metric -- 9.3.Closed Geometry -- 9.4.Open Geometry -- ch. 10 Newtonian Perturbations -- 10.1.Unperturbed Universe -- 10.2.Total Density Perturbation -- 10.3.Baryons And Cdm -- ch. 11 Relativistic Perturbations -- 11.1.Defining The Perturbations -- 11.2.Statistical Properties -- 11.3.Smoothing -- 11.4.Primordial Curvature Perturbation -- ch. 12 Scalar Perturbations -- 12.1.Tensor, Vector And Scalar Modes -- 12.2.Scalar Perturbations -- 12.3.Evolution Of The Scalar Perturbations -- 12.4.Initial Condition -- ch. 13 Baryon Acoustic Oscillation -- 13.1.Growth, Oscillation And Decay -- 13.2.Baryon Acoustic Oscillation -- ch. 14 CMB Anisotropy -- 14.1.CMB Temperature -- 14.2.CMB Multipoles -- 14.3.Polarization -- 14.4.What The Spectra Tell Us -- ch. 15 Galaxy Formation -- 15.1.Matter Transfer Function -- 15.2.Formation Of Cdm Halos -- 15.3.Formation Of Galaxies And Clusters -- Section III Inflation -- ch. 16 Scalar Fields: Classical Theory -- 16.1.Action Principle -- 16.2.Scalar Field -- 16.3.Action In Curved Spacetime -- ch. 17 Quantum Theory Of A Free Field -- 17.1.Harmonic Oscillator -- 17.2.Free Scalar Field -- 17.3.Particles -- 17.4.Vacuum State -- 17.5.Planck Scale -- ch. 18 Inflation -- 18.1.Two Stages Of Inflation -- 18.2.Amount Of Observable Inflation -- 18.3.Slow-Roll Inflation -- 18.4.Dark Energy -- ch. 19 Perturbations From Inflation -- 19.1.Generating The Inflaton Perturbation -- 19.2.Generating ζ -- 19.3.Generating Gravitational Waves -- 19.4.Constraining The Inflaton Potential -- ch. 20 Prehistory Of The Big Bang -- 20.1.Prehistory With The Standard Model -- 20.2.Creating The CDM -- 20.3.Gut Cosmic Strings -- 20.4.What Might Future Observations Find? -- Appendix A "Appendix -- A.1.Special Functions -- A.2.Cosmological Perturbations -- A.3.Constants, Parameters And Symbols.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 149875533X (ebk)
9781498755337 - Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the University Libraries Astronomy Collection Endowment; 2016
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