| course | dates | credits |
| Beyond the Standard Model in the Early Universe | Jan 11 - Mar 25 | 5 |
| teachers | schedule | term |
| Andrea De Simone | Mon-Thu, 8:30-10:00 | 0 |
Program:
- Phase Transitions in the early Universe
- Effective potentials at zero and finite temperature
- Thermal tunnelling
- Baryogenesis
- General conditions, Sphalerons, Boltzmann equations
- Electroweak Baryogenesis
- Leptogenesis
- Topological defects
- General classification
- Magnetic monopoles, cosmic strings, domain walls
- The dark matter component of the Universe
- Observational evidences
- The WIMP paradigm and particle physics candidates
- A few exceptions to the WIMP paradigm: coannihilation, threshold and resonance effects
- Direct detection of WIMP dark matter: test and challenges to the framework
- Indirect detection of WIMPs; mechanisms for non-thermal generation of dark matter
- The cosmological gravitino problem and gravitinos as dark matter
- Dark matter as a condensate: the case for axion dark matter
Prerequisites:
Books:
- E. W. Kolb and M. S. Turner, The Early Universe, Addison-Wesley (New York, 1990)
- D. S. Gorbunov, V. A. Rubakov, Introduction to the Theory of the Early Universe - Hot Big Bang Theoryť, World Scientific (2011).
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