
Post-Planck Cosmology
Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 100, July 2013
Oxford University Press
Published on 5. February 2015
Book
Hardback
568 pages
978-0-19-872885-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book gathers the lecture notes of the 100th Les Houches Summer School, which was held in July 2013. These lectures represent a comprehensive pedagogical survey of the frontier of theoretical and observational cosmology just after the release of the first cosmological results of the Planck mission. The Cosmic Microwave Background is discussed as a possible window on the still unknown laws of physics at very high energy and as a backlight for studying the late-time Universe. Other lectures highlight connections of fundamental physics with other areas of cosmology and astrophysics, the successes and fundamental puzzles of the inflationary paradigm of cosmic beginning, the themes of dark energy and dark matter, and the theoretical developments and observational probes that will shed light on these cosmic conundrums in the years to come.
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[O]f value to researchers in the field. Recommended. * T. Barker, CHOICE * [T]he fact that most chapters have very many references ... makes this book useful for someone wanting to learn about a topic in depth. * The Observatory *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Numerous b/w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
1147 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-872885-6 (9780198728856)
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Post-Planck Cosmology
Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 100, July 2013
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Persons
Cedric Deffayet, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Patrick Peter, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Benjamin Wandelt, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Matias Zaldarriaga, Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton, USA, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Editor
, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
, Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton, USA
, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Content
1. Cosmic inflation ; 2. The evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe: beyond the linear regime ; 3. The Planck mission ; 4. The cosmological constant problem: Why it's hard to get dark energy from microphysics ; 5. Beyond DM cosmology ; 6. Inflationary cosmology after Planck ; 7. Large scale structure observations ; 8. Particle physics and cosmology ; 9. Galaxy formation ; 10. Inflationary observables and string theory ; 11. Computational cosmology ; 12. Planck 2013 and superconformal symmetry