course dates credits
Beyond the Standard Model in the Early Universe May 4 - May 28 4
teachers schedule term
Takeshi Kobayashi Mon-Thu, 10:00-11:30 3

Program:

  • Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Cosmology
    • Phase transitions
    • Bubble nucleation
    • Topological defects
    • Monopole cosmology
  • Dark Matter
    • Hot and cold dark matter
    • Self-interacting dark matter
    • Axions
    • Primordial black holes
  • Baryon Asymmetry
    • Electroweak baryogenesis
    • Asymmetry from particle decays
    • Affleck–Dine mechanism
    • Spontaneous baryogenesis
  • Cosmological Magnetic Fields (optional)

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