Cosmology for Particle Physicists

Abstract

In these notes we present a selection of topics, each section approximately amounting to one lecture. We begin with a brief recapitulation of General Relativity, and the Standard Model of Cosmology. This is followed by lectures on important signatures of the remote past. These include : (i) inflation, (ii) density perturbations leading to galaxy formation, (iii) study of hot and cold relics decoupled from the remaining constituents, some of which can be candidates for Dark Matter, (iv) baryon asymmetry of the Universe.

Comments: 54 pages pdf, 8 figures, Lectures at SERC School on Theoretical High Energy Physics, PRL Ahmedabad, February 2006