Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 8.952 (Fall 2004) 
• Course Title:
• Particle Physics of the Early Universe 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Physics 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Frank Wilczek 
• Course Introduction:
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  8.952 Particle Physics of the Early Universe
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2004

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features extensive lecture notes and assignments.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course covers the basics of general relativity, standard big bang cosmology, thermodynamics of the early universe, cosmic background radiation, primordial nucleosynthesis, basics of the standard model of particle physics, electroweak and QCD phase transition, basics of group theory, grand unified theories, baryon asymmetry, monopoles, cosmic strings, domain walls, axions, inflationary universe, and structure formation.