Fall 2005

Good work, everybody! Have a nice break.

All homework solutions posted. Small errors in HW3 and HW5 solutions corrected

Grades are already posted on bearfacts.

Class Schedules

Lectures:	Mon Fri 12:30-2:00, 430 Birge
Homeworks:	bi-weekly, due Fridays, 4pm
Exams:	none

Instructor: Hitoshi Murayama

E-mail:	murayama at physics.berkeley.edu
Phone:	2-1019 (no voice machine), 486-5589 (LBNL, with voice machine)
Office:	447 Birge, 50A-5109 (LBNL)
Office Hours:	TBA

221AB, 209, 211 or equivalent

• Standard Big-Bang Universe
• Thermal History
• Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
• Dark Matter
• Baryogenesis
• Inflation
• Other Topics

• Edward W. Kolb and Michael S. Turner, The Early Universe.
• Scott Dodelson, Modern Cosmology
• Sean Carroll, Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity
• Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (popular book)
• R.A. Knop et al, "New Constraints on Ω_M, Ω_Λ, and w from an Independent Set of Eleven High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with HST"
• Gary Steigman, "Primordial Alchemy: From The Big Bang To The Present Universe," Course of lectures at the XIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, ``Cosmochemistry: The Melting Pot of Elements (November 19 - 30, 2001; Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain).
• B.D. Fields and S. Sarkar, Big-Bang Nucleosymthesis
• G.G. Raffelt, Dark matter: motivation, candidates and searches, Contributed to the Proceedings of the 1997 European School of School of High-Energy Physics, Menstrup, Denmark, 25 May - 7 Jun 1997.
• Bohdan Paczynski, "Gravitational Microlensing by the Galactic Halo," Astrophysical Journal, 304, 1 (1986).
• Astronomers Announce First Clear Evidence of a Brown Dwarf at Hubble site
• Tony Tyson's home page on mapping dark matter in clusters with gravitational lensing
• Scott Tremaine and James E. Gunn, "Dynamical Role of Light Neutral Leptons in Cosmology," Phys. Rev. Lett., 42, 407 (1979)
• D.N.C. Lin and S.M. Faber, "Some implications of nonluminous matter in dward spheroidal galaxies," APJ 266, L21 (1983)
• Nature research highlights "State of collapse" on collapsing Bose-Einstein condensate due to an attractive interaction, and the article Nature 412, 295-299 (2001), "Dynamics of collapsing and exploding Bose-Einstein condensates," by Elizabeth A. Donley, Neil R. Claussen, Simon L. Cornish, Jacob L. Roberts, Eric A. Cornell & Carl E. Wieman
• Eöt-Wash experiment on small-scale gravity
• A new measurement of the neutron lifetime changed by 6.5σ. "Measurement of the neutron lifetime using a gravitational trap and a low-temperature fomblin coating," by A. Serebrov et al, Phys. Lett. B605, 72-78 (2005), nucl-ex/0408009. It made one of the determinations of the ⁴He abundance consistent with the Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis. See "Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with a new neutron lifetime," by G.J. Mathews, T. Kajino, and T. Shima, Phys. Rev. D71, 021302 (2005), astro-ph/0408523.

• HW #1, solution in Mathematica notebook and PDF
• HW #2 Tab-limited texts of the tables ready to be imported to Excel and other programs, Table 3, Table 4, Table 5 from astro-ph/0309368. Solution in Mathematica notebook and PDF, and the plot.
• HW #3, solution in Mathematica notebook and PDF (corrected).
• HW #4, solution of part 1. in Mathematica notebook and PDF, and solution of part 2. in PDF.
• HW #5, solution in Mathematica notebook and PDF (corrected).
• HW #6 (corrected), solution in Mathematica notebook and PDF, and the optional problem in PDF.

• Make-up class on Oct 4 (Matt Buckley)
• Make-up class on Oct 13 (Tommy O'Donnell)
• Make-up class on Nov 22 (Tommy O'Donnell)
• Make-up class on Dec 6 (Tommy O'Donnell)