Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory

• Yazar: Bailin, D. (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Love, Alexander (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Taylor & Francis 2004
• Konular: Physics
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Özet

Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory focuses on the cosmological implications of the gauge theories of particle physics and of string theory. The book first examines the universe's series of phase transitions in which the successive gauge symmetries of the higher-temperature phase were spontaneously broken after the big bang, discussing relics of these phase transitions, more generic relics (baryons, neutrinos, axions), and supersymmetric particles (neutralinos and gravitinos). The author next studies supersymmetric theory, supergravity theory, and the constraints on the underlying field theory of the universe's inflationary era. The book concludes with a discussion of black hole solutions of the supergravity theory that approximates string theory at low energies and the insight that string theory affords into the microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory provides a modern introduction to these important problems from a particle physicist's perspective. It is intended as an introductory textbook for a first course on the subject at a graduate level.

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (312 p.)

ISBN

9780367806637
9781420057003
9780750304924
9781138456563

Erişim

Open Access