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A primer on the physics of the cosmic microwave background / Massimo Giovannini.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giovannini, Massimo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmic background radiation.
- Physics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 474 p. ) ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title addresses the general motivations and principles that inspire modern searches of a common lore in gravitation, cosmology and high energy physics.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-466) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611933937
- 9781281933935
- 1281933937
- 9789812791436
- 9812791434
- OCLC:
- 815752222
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