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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782272603321

Autore

Giovannini Massimo

Titolo

A primer on the physics of the cosmic microwave background [[electronic resource] /] / Massimo Giovannini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2008

ISBN

1-281-93393-7

9786611933937

981-279-143-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 474 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

523.1

Soggetti

Cosmic background radiation

Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-466) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Why CMB Physics; Electromagnetic Emission of the Observable Universe; From CMB to the Standard Cosmological Model; Problems with the Standard Cosmological Model (SCM); Beyond the SCM; Essentials of Inflationary Dynamics; Inhomogeneities in FRW Models; The First Lap in CMB Anisotropies; Improved Fluid Description of Pre-Decoupling Physics; Kinetic Hierarchies of Multipole Moments; Early Initial Conditions; Surfing on the Gauges; Interacting Fluids; Spectator Fields; Appendices: The Concept of Distance in Cosmology; Kinetic Description of Hot Plasmas; Scalar Modes of the Geometry; Metric Fluctuations: Gauge Independent Treatment.

Sommario/riassunto

This title addresses the general motivations and principles that inspire modern searches of a common lore in gravitation, cosmology and high energy physics.