Cosmology and Particle Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. A New Topology for Spatial Infinity ?

   • Peter G. Bergmann, Gerrit J. Smith

   Pages 1-8

3. Temperature and Gravitational Potential

   • Peter G. Bergmann

   Pages 9-12

4. How can General Relativity be formulated most canonically?

   • Horst-Heino v. Borzeszkowski

   Pages 13-24

5. Phase Transitions Out of Equilibrium

   • D. Boyanovsky, H. J. de Vega

   Pages 25-48

6. Some Physical Analyses in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

   • Chao Wei-Qin

   Pages 49-65

7. Why the central values of \({m_{{v_e}}}^2\) obtained experimentally with the magnetic spectrometers by various laboratories over the world are most negative?

   • Ching Chengrui, Ho Tsohsiu, Liang Dongqi, Mao Yajun, Chen Shiping, Sun Hancheng

   Pages 67-77

8. Ultracryogenic Gravitational Wave Experiments: Nautilus

   • E. Coccia

   Pages 79-95

9. Spin and Torsion in the Early Universe

   • Venzo de Sabbata

   Pages 97-128

10. Four-Dimensional String/String Duality

    • M. J. Duff, Ramzi R. Khuri

    Pages 129-143

11. Gravity’s measurements in the 10÷100 m range of distance

    • S. Focardi

    Pages 145-158

12. Long Distance Correlations of Matter Distribution in the Universe

    • H. E. Jørgensen, P. D. Naselsky, D. I. Novikov, I. D. Novikov

    Pages 159-182

13. Critical Phenomena in Black Holes and the Emergence of a Two Dimensional Quantum Description

    • C. O. Lousto

    Pages 183-192

14. Quantization of the Metric Created by Ultrarelativistic Particles

    • C. O. Lousto, N. Sánchez

    Pages 193-199

15. Gravitational Wave Search with Resonant Detectors

    • G. Pizzella

    Pages 201-212

16. String Theory in Cosmology

    • N. Sánchez

    Pages 213-232

17. Basic Principles of Gravitational Wave Interferometers

    • Peter R. Saulson

    Pages 233-255

18. Is the Wavefunction Real?

    • W. G. Unruh

    Pages 257-269

19. Supercollider Gravitational Experiments

    • J. Weber

    Pages 271-278

20. New theoretical results of 2vββ decay with the Operator Expansion Method

    • X. R. Wu, M. Hirsch, A. Staudt, H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Ching Cheng-rui, Ho Tso-hsiu

    Pages 279-287

In recent years there has been a steadily increasing cross-fertilization between cosmology and particle physics, on both the theoretical and experimental levels. Particle physics has provided new experimental data from the big accelerators in operation, and data from space satellites are accumulating rapidly. Cosmology is still one of the best laboratories for testing particle theory.
The present work discusses such matters in the context of inflation, strings, dark matter, neutrinos and gravitational wave physics in the very early universe, field theory at the Planck scale, and high energy physics. A particular emphasis has been placed on a new topology for spatial infinity, on the relation between temperature and gravitational potential, a canonical formulation of general relativity, the neutrino mass, spin in the early universe, the measurement of gravity in the 10--100 m range, galaxy--galaxy and cluster--cluster correlation, black holes, string theory and string/string duality.
The work also presents a beautiful review of high energy elementary particle physics, treating the meaning, status and perspectives of unification and standard model gauge couplings.

• Cosmology
• Dark matter
• Gravity
• Neutrino
• Particle Physics
• Potential
• Relativity
• Universe
• general relativity

• Department of Physics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  Venzo Sabbata

• Department of Physics, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

  Venzo Sabbata

• Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

  Ho Tso-Hsiu

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