Section outline

  • Resources

    introduction to cosmology:
    - lecture notes by Baumann http://cosmology.amsterdam/education/cosmology/
    - book by Baumann (Baumann, D. (2022) Cosmology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.)
    - book by Kolb & Turner (    The Early Universe, Front. Phys. 69 (1990), 1-547 doi:10.1201/9780429492860)

    cosmological constant:
    - introductory review by Carroll https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0004075
    - Casimir effect is treated in the QFT notes by Tong https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft.html
    - anthropic argument: see Carroll

    dark matter
    - the most comprehensive review is this book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/particle-dark-matter/B03C934EAB188884EFC6B02432632496. Many (most?) chapters can be found on arXiv as preprints
    - historical perspective https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.04909
    - some nice set of lectures: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03797 by Mariangela Lisanti, https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0952 by Stefano Profumo
    - relic abundance: Gondolo&Gelmini (https://inspirehep.net/literature/304505)

    axions and axion DM
    - lectures by Anson Hook (https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02669)
    - long/complete review by Marsh (https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07633)
    - Kolb & Turner

    classical fields in cosmology
    - quantum to classical transition: Anthony Duncan, The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field Theory, Oxford University Press
    - Robert Brandenberger, Quantum Field Theory Methods and Inflationary Universe Models, https://inspirehep.net/literature/14969

    gravitational waves
    - a good introduction is