Ebook: Cosmology and Particle Physics

In recent years there has been a steadily increasing cross-fertilization between cosmology and particle physics, on both the theoretical and experimental levels. Particle physics has provided new experimental data from the big accelerators in operation, and data from space satellites are accumulating rapidly. Cosmology is still one of the best laboratories for testing particle theory.
The present work discusses such matters in the context of inflation, strings, dark matter, neutrinos and gravitational wave physics in the very early universe, field theory at the Planck scale, and high energy physics. A particular emphasis has been placed on a new topology for spatial infinity, on the relation between temperature and gravitational potential, a canonical formulation of general relativity, the neutrino mass, spin in the early universe, the measurement of gravity in the 10--100 m range, galaxy--galaxy and cluster--cluster correlation, black holes, string theory and string/string duality.
The work also presents a beautiful review of high energy elementary particle physics, treating the meaning, status and perspectives of unification and standard model gauge couplings.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
A New Topology for Spatial Infinity ?....Pages 1-8
Temperature and Gravitational Potential....Pages 9-12
How can General Relativity be formulated most canonically?....Pages 13-24
Phase Transitions Out of Equilibrium....Pages 25-48
Some Physical Analyses in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 49-65
Ultracryogenic Gravitational Wave Experiments: Nautilus....Pages 67-77
Spin and Torsion in the Early Universe....Pages 79-95
Four-Dimensional String/String Duality....Pages 97-128
Gravity’s measurements in the 10?100 m range of distance....Pages 129-143
Long Distance Correlations of Matter Distribution in the Universe....Pages 145-158
Critical Phenomena in Black Holes and the Emergence of a Two Dimensional Quantum Description....Pages 159-182
Quantization of the Metric Created by Ultrarelativistic Particles....Pages 183-192
Gravitational Wave Search with Resonant Detectors....Pages 193-199
String Theory in Cosmology....Pages 201-212
Basic Principles of Gravitational Wave Interferometers....Pages 213-232
Is the Wavefunction Real?....Pages 233-255
Supercollider Gravitational Experiments....Pages 257-269
New theoretical results of 2v?? decay with the Operator Expansion Method....Pages 271-278
R-W Cosmological Solution for Polytropes....Pages 279-287
Back Matter....Pages 289-299
Unification of Standard Model Gauge Couplings: Meaning, Status and Perspectives....Pages 327-337
....Pages 301-326