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Reading List

 

 

Cosmology

 

Kolb and Turner, Early Universe, chapters 1-3

 

Hu and Dodelson,Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies, astro-ph/0110414 or at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110414

 

A.H. Guth, Phys. Rev. D23, 347 (1981).

 

J.M. Bardeen, P.J. Steinhardt, and M.S. Turner, Phys. Rev. D28, 679

(1983).

 

5.  Peebles, Large Scale Structure of the Universe, chs. 2-4

 

 

Brane Cosmology:

 

An overview of recent developments:

 

F. Quevedo, Lectures on string/brane cosmology, hep-th/0210292 or at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210292

 

V. A.Rubakov,

``Large and infinite extra dimensions: An introduction,''

Phys. Usp. 44, 871 (2001), hep-ph/0104152 or at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0104152

 

Some original references:

 

N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and G.R.Dvali,

``The hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter,''

Phys. Lett. B  429, 263 (1998), hep-ph/9803315. or at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9803315

 

L. Randall and R. Sundrum,

``A large mass hierarchy from a small extra dimension,''

Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3370 (1999), hep-ph/9905221. or at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9905221

 

H. Verlinde,

``Holography and compactification,''

Nucl. Phys. B  580, 264 (2000), hep-th/9906182. or at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9906182

 

S. B. Giddings, S. Kachru and J. Polchinski,

``Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications,''

Phys. Rev. D 66, 106006 (2002), hep-th/0105097. or at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0105097

 

 

String Phenomenology

 

Structure of the Standard Model, hep-ph/0304186 or at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0304186  This is a concise summary of the structure of the standard model, first published in 1995.

(Available 4/22/03).

 

Precision Electroweak Data: Phenomenological Analysis (Snowmass 2001),

available at hep-ph/0110129 or at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C010630

This is an introduction and overview of precision electroweak tests of

the standard model and beyond.

 

Neutrino Oscillation Workshop 2000: Conference Summary, hep-ph/0101244

or http://www.elsevier.com/IVP/09205632/100/383/

This gives an overview of neutrino physics.

 

A SUPERSYMMETRY PRIMER.

By Stephen P. Martin (Michigan U.). Sep 1997. 88pp.

In *Kane, G.L. (ed.): Perspectives on supersymmetry* 1-98.

e-Print Archive: hep-ph/9709356 or at http://www.arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-ph/pdf/9709/9709356.pdf

 

Superstring Theory, Volume 2, by M. Green, J Schwarz, and E. Witten,

Cambridge University Press. Chapter 16, Sections 16.1, 16.2, 16.3,16.4.

 

 

String Effective Actions:

 

Superstring Theory, Volume 1, by M. Green, J Schwarz, and E. Witten,

Cambridge University Press. Chapter 3, Section 3.4.

 

A. Abouelsaood, C. Callan, C. Nappi, and S. Yost,

``Open Strings in Background Gauge Fields''

Nuclear Physics B280} (1987) 599.

 

N. Seiberg and E. Witten, ``String Theory and Noncommutative

Geometry'', JHEP  9909 (1999) 032,  hep-th/9908142. or at http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9908142

 

 

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