Astrophysics and Cosmology
Abstract
These notes are intended as an introductory course for experimental particle physicists interested in the recent developments in astrophysics and cosmology. I will describe the standard Big Bang theory of the evolution of the universe, with its successes and shortcomings, which will lead to inflationary cosmology as the paradigm for the origin of the global structure of the universe as well as the origin of the spectrum of density perturbations responsible for structure in our local patch. I will present a review of the very rich phenomenology that we have in cosmology today, as well as evidence for the observational revolution that this field is going through, which will provide us, in the next few years, with an accurate determination of the parameters of our standard cosmological model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0004188,
title = {Astrophysics and Cosmology},
author = {Juan Garcia-Bellido},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0004188},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Invited Lectures at 1999 European School of High Energy Physics, Casta-Papiernicka, Slovak Republic, 22 August - 4 September 1999 78 pages, 42 figures, uses cernrep.cls