Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory

• Main Authors: Bailin, D, Love, A
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol ; Philadelphia Routledge 2004; Institute of Physics Pub; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group; Institute of Physics; CRC Press
• Edition: 1
• Series: Graduate Student Series in Physics
• Subjects: Baryon Asymmetry; Baryon Number; Baryon Number Density; Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics); Cosmic String; Cosmological Constant; Cosmology; Domain Wall; Electroweak Theory; Energy Density; Energy Momentum Tensor; Extreme Black Hole; False Vacuum; Gauge Boson; Gauge Field; Gauge fields (Physics); Heterotic String Theory; Higgs Field; Inflaton Field; Magnetic Monopole; Materials / States of matter; Mathematics and Science; Null Geodesics; Particle and high-energy physics; Physics; Radiative Corrections; Renormalization Group Equations; Science; Slow Roll Inflation; String models; Strong CP Problem; Supersymmetry Breaking; Vacuum Energy; Vacuum Energy Density; Magnetic Monopole; supergravity; Energy Density; superstring Cosmology; Cosmological Constant; False Vacuum; Inflaton Field; baryogenesis; Gauge Field; Extreme Black Hole; Heterotic String Theory; Baryon Asymmetry; Supersymmetry Breaking; Radiative Corrections; Vacuum Energy; Baryon Number Density; Gauge Boson; black holes; Slow Roll Inflation; Electroweak Theory; Null Geodesics; string theory; relic neutrinos; topological defects; phase transitions; Higgs Field; Renormalization Group Equations; Cosmic String; axions; Inflationary Cosmology; supersymmetric dark matter; gauge field theory; Energy Momentum Tensor; Vacuum Energy Density; Domain Wall; Strong CP Problem; Baryon Number
• ISBN: 9781138456563; 9780750304924; 0750304928; 113845656X; 036723775X; 9780367806637; 0367806630; 100054608X; 9781000546088; 9781420057003; 9780367237752; 1420057006
• DOI: 10.1201/9780367806637

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.