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In recent years there has been a steadily increasing cross-fertilization between cosmology and particle physics, on both the theoretical and experimental levels. Particle physics has provided new experimental data from the big accelerators in operation, and data from space satellites are accumulating rapidly. Cosmology is still one of the best laboratories for testing particle theory.
The present work discusses such matters in the context of inflation, strings, dark matter, neutrinos and gravitational wave physics in the very early universe, field theory at the Planck scale, and high energy physics. A particular emphasis has been placed on a new topology for spatial infinity, on the relation between temperature and gravitational potential, a canonical formulation of general relativity, the neutrino mass, spin in the early universe, the measurement of gravity in the 10--100 m range, galaxy--galaxy and cluster--cluster correlation, black holes, string theory and string/string duality.
The work also presents a beautiful review of high energy elementary particle physics, treating the meaning, status and perspectives of unification and standard model gauge couplings.
List of contents
A new Topology for Spatial Infinity ?.- Temperature and Gravitational Potential.- How can General Relativity be formulated most canonically ?.- Phase Transitions out of Equilibrium.- Some Physical Analyses in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions.- Why the central values of $${{rm{m}}_{{v_e}}}^2$$ obtained experimentally with the magnetic spectrometers by various laboratories over the world are most negative?.- Ultracryogenic Gravitational Wave Experiments: Nautilus.- Spin and Torsion in the Early Universe.- Four-Dimensional String/String Duality.- Gravity's measurements in the 10 ÷ 100 m range of distance.- Long Distance Correlations of Matter Distribution in the Universe.- Critical Phenomena in Black Holes and the Emergence of a Two Dimensional Quantum Description.- Quantization of the Metric created by Ultrarelativistic Particles.- Gravitational Wave search with Resonant Detectors.- String Theory in Cosmology.- Basic Principles of Gravitational Wave Interferometers.- Is the Wavefunction Real ?.- Supercollider Gravitational Experiments.- New theoretical results of 2v?? decay with the Operator Expansion Method.- R-W Cosmological Solution for Polytropes.- Unification of Standard Model Gauge Couplings: Meaning, Status and Perspectives.
