Index
Affleck–Dine scenario, 215
age of the universe, 8
asymptotic freedom, 141, 146
axions, 204
baryogenesis, 210
in GUTs, 211
via leptogenesis, 213
baryon asymmetry, 73, 199, 201, 211
baryon–radiation plasma
influence on CMB, 365
baryon-to-entropy ratio, 90
baryon-to-photon ratio, 4, 70, 105, 271
observed value of, 119
baryons, 4, 138
bolometric magnitude, 64
Boltzmann equation, 359
Bose–Einstein distribution, 78
broad resonance, 249, 254
chemical equilibrium, 92
chemical potential, 78
of bosons, 85
of electrons, 93
of fermions, 86, 88
of neutrinos, 92
of protons, 93
chiral anomaly, 196
Christoffel symbols, 20
Coleman–Weinberg potential, 172,
259
collision time, 96
color singlets, 139, 140
comoving observers, 7
concordance model, 367, 384
conformal diagrams, 42
continuity equation, 9
coordinates
comoving, 20
Lagrangian vs. Eulerian, 272, 279
cosmic coincidence problem, 71
cosmic mean, 365
cosmic microwave background, 4
acoustic peaks, 63, 378, 381, 383
height of, 387
location of, 386
angular scales, 356
bispectrum, 365
correlation function, 365
Doppler peaks, 365
finite thickness effect, 369, 378
Gaussian distribution of, 365
implications for cosmology, 389
large-angle anisotropy, 368
last scattering, 72, 356
multipolesCl, 366
plateau, 385
polarization, 365, 395
EandBmodes, 402, 406
magnitude of, 396, 401
mechanism of, 396, 398
multipoles, 405
spectrum of, 404
rest frame of, 360
small-angle anisotropy, 374
spectral tilt, 390
temperature of, 69
thermal spectrum, 129
transfer functions, 375, 382
values of multipolesCl, 377
visibility function, 370, 401
cosmic strings, 217, 219
global vs. local, 220
cosmic variance, 366, 369
cosmological constant,20
cosmological constant problem,
203
cosmological parameter , 11, 23
cosmological principle, 3
CPviolation, 162, 164
CPTinvariance, 165
critical density, 11
curvature scale, 39
dark energy, 65, 70, 355
existence of, 389419