Astronomy 596/496 NPA
Lecture 15, February 20 Spring 2019

Lecture Notes: pdf file

Overview of Particle Physics

Animatter

Conservation Laws


Primordial Nucleosynthesis

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Overview

Thermal History of the Universe: Review of Statistical Mechanics

  • distribution functions
  • Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics
  • limiting cases: non- and ultra-relativistic particles
primodial soup

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