Particle Cosmology

Yossi Nir (Mail to me)
Phone: 3887 (office)

Eli Waxman (Mail to me)
Phone: 4260 (office)

Related info: Physics home page, Physics Students page, links to particle physics, astrophysics

Course Schedule

• Sunday and Thursday 09:15-11:00 Physics building, seminar Room A

Bibliography

• Kolb and Turner: The Early Universe
• Weinberg: Gravitation and Cosmology
• Peebles: Principles of Physical Cosmology
• Padmanabahn: Structure Formation in the Universe

Course Notes

• Introduction to particle physics
• The FRW universe
• Thermal History of the Universe
• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
• Inhomogeneous Universe
• CMB and Large Scale Structure
• Baryogenesis
• Inflation

Homework

• Problem set #1
• Problem set #2
• Problem set #3
• Problem set #4
• Problem set #5
• Problem set #6
• Problem set #7
• Problem set #8