Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-04-09
Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.49:77-123,1999
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
43 pages. To appear in Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science
Scientific paper
10.1146/annurev.nucl.49.1.77
In 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.
Kamionkowski Marc
Kosowsky Arthur
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