MODERN COSMOLOGY

Cosmological models and constraints 247 consequently have greater power to constrain parameters, efficient techniques of paramet ...

248 The cosmic microwave background Figure 7.3. Two current measurements of the microwave background radiation temperature power ...

Cosmological models and constraints 249 36 000μK^2 , and second, a broad plateau betweenl=400 andl=700 with an amplitude of appr ...

250 The cosmic microwave background data. An alternative is that the entropy per comoving volume hasnotremained fixed between nu ...

Model-independent cosmological constraints 251 We should not rest lightly until the cosmological model preferred by microwave ba ...

252 The cosmic microwave background are attractive from an aesthetic point of view: all add significant complexity and freedom t ...

Model-independent cosmological constraints 253 length at the time of last scattering subtends an angle on the sky of around two ...

254 The cosmic microwave background 7.6.2 Coherent acoustic oscillations If a series of peaks equally spaced inlis observed in t ...

Model-independent cosmological constraints 255 or isocurvature. Quite generally, equation (7.28) shows that adiabatic and isocur ...

256 The cosmic microwave background Figure 7.4.Polarization power spectra from tensor perturbations: the full curve isClGand the ...

Model-independent cosmological constraints 257 7.6.6 Reionization redshift Reionization produces a distinctive microwave backgro ...

258 The cosmic microwave background alocalcondition on the spacetime. Its global structure is still unspecified. It is possible ...

Finale: testing inflationary cosmology 259 to come about, we must first choose a model space which includes the correct model fo ...

260 The cosmic microwave background depend significantly on astrophysical modelling. The simplest models of inflation, with a s ...

References 261 several distinctive signatures in the microwave background radiation. Current measurements beautifully confirm a ...

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References 263 Seljak U 1996Astrophys. J. 4631 Seljak U, Pen U and Turok N 1997Phys.Rev.Lett. 791615 Seljak U and Zaldarriaga M ...

Chapter 8 Dark matter search with innovative techniques Andrea Giuliani University of Insubria at Como, Italy The evidence that ...

CDM direct detection 265 can admit particle physics solutions. In particular, axions and neutralinos look like plausible candida ...

266 Dark matter search with innovative techniques Neutralinos are supposed to interact with quarks within the nucleons [10,11]. ...