The Cosmic Microwave Background and Particle Physics

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dc.creatorKamionkowski, Marc
dc.creatorKosowsky, Arthur
dc.date1999-04-09
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dc.descriptionIn forthcoming years, connections between cosmology and particle physics will be made increasingly important with the advent of a new generation of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. Here, we review a number of these links. Our primary focus is on new CMB tests of inflation. We explain how the inflationary predictions for the geometry of the Universe and primordial density perturbations will be tested by CMB temperature fluctuations, and how the gravitational waves predicted by inflation can be pursued with the CMB polarization. The CMB signatures of topological defects and primordial magnetic fields from cosmological phase transitions are also discussed. Furthermore, we review current and future CMB constraints on various types of dark matter (e.g. massive neutrinos, weakly interacting massive particles, axions, vacuum energy), decaying particles, the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, exotic cosmological topologies, and other new physics.
dc.description43 pages. To appear in Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904108
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904108
dc.identifierAnn.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.49:77-123,1999
dc.identifierdoi:10.1146/annurev.nucl.49.1.77
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/202131
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleThe Cosmic Microwave Background and Particle Physics
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