El Modelo Cosmológico Estándar actual se fundamenta en
la teoría del Big Bang y el paradigma de la
Inflación Cosmológica. En este curso se describirá
en qué consiste este paradigma, basado en la física
de partículas de altas energías, así como sus
predicciones fenomenológicas sobre el origen de la materia
y la estructura a gran escala del universo. A continuación se
describirá la situación experimental y/o
observacional presente y las expectativas futuras que permitirán
acotar el espacio de parámetros del
Modelo Cosmológico Estándar y descartar modelos alternativos
de inflación.
- BIG BANG COSMOLOGY
- Brief introduction to general relativity
- Geodesics, horizons and metrics
- Einstein Field Equations
- Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes
- The expansion of the universe
- The matter and energy content of the universe
- Mechanical and Thermodynamical analogies
- Thermal history of the universe
- Primordial nucleosynthesis and light element abundance
- Neutrino decoupling
- Matter-radiation equality
- Recombination and photon decoupling
- The microwave background
- Large scale structure formation
- The density contrast
- Linear perturbation theory
- The matter power spectrum
- DETERMINATION OF COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS
- The rate of expansion
- Cepheid variability
- Gravitational lensing
- Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
- The matter content
- Luminous matter
- Rotation curves of spiral galaxies
- Microlensing
- Virial theorem and large scale motion
- Baryon fraction in clusters
- Weak gravitational lensing
- Structure formation and the matter power spectrum
- Cluster abundance and evolution
- Massive neutrinos
- Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
- Dark Matter searches: direct and indirect
- The cosmological constant
- Theory and observations
- Supernova Cosmology Project and SNAP
- The spatial curvature
- Observations of the microwave background
- The age of the universe
- THE INFLATIONARY PARADIGM
- Shortcomings of Big Bang Cosmology
- The Flatness Problem
- The Homogeneity Problem
- Cosmological Inflation
- Homogeneous scalar field dynamics
- The slow-roll approximation
- The origin of density perturbations
- Gauge invariant perturbation theory
- Quantum Field Theory in curved space-time
- Quantum to Classical transition of inflationary fluctuations
- The anisotropies of the microwave background
- Acoustic oscillations in a plasma
- The Sachs-Wolfe effect
- Temperature and polarization power spectra
- COBE, BOOMREanG, MAP and Planck
- From metric perturbations to large scale structure
- Gravitational collapse
- The matter power spectrum
- 2dFGRS and Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- Reheating the universe
- Parametric resonance vs. perturbative decay
- Thermalization
- The origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry
- Electroweak baryogenesis and Leptogenesis
- High Energy Cosmic Rays (*)
- Hillas plot and acceleration mechanisms
- AGASA and Pierre Auger Project
- Gravitational Waves (*)
- The global structure of the universe (*)
- Stochastic inflation and quantum cosmology
- Eternal inflation
Las secciones con asterisco (*)
van más allá del nivel requerido y pueden
ser omitidas.
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BIBLIOGRAFIA
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EJERCICIOS