Review Articles

  • Collections
  • Cosmology
    • “The Cosmological Parameters 2005,” Ofer Lahav and Andrew R Liddle, astro-ph/0601168
    • “TASI Lectures: Cosmology for string theorists,” Sean Carroll, hep-th/0011110
    • “TASI Lectures: Introduction to Cosmology,” Mark Trodden and Sean Carroll, astro-ph/0401547
    • “Introduction to Cosmology,” David H Lyth, astro-ph/9312022
    • “Cosmology at the Millennium,” Michael Turner and J. Anthony Tyson, astro-ph/9901113
    • “Physics at the Interface of Particle Physics and Cosmology,” R.D. Peccei, hep-ph/9808418
    • “Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (Summary of the Snowmass 2001 P4 Working Group),” Daniel S. Akerib, Sean M. Carroll, Marc Kamionkowski, and Steven Ritz, hep-ph/0201178
    • “TASI Lectures on Astroparticle Physics,” Keith A. Olive, astro-ph/0503065
    • “Primordial Nucleosynthesis: Theory and Observations,” Keith A. Olive, Gary Steigman, Terry P. Walker, astro-ph/9905320
    • “Big-bang Nucleosynthesis Enters the Precision Era,” David N. Schramm and Michael S. Turner , astro-ph/9706069
    • “Gravitational Wave Experiments and Early Universe Cosmology,” Michele Maggiore, gr-qc/9909001
    • “Electroweak Baryogenesis,” Mark Trodden, hep-ph/9803479
    • “Recent Progress in Baryogenesis,” Antonio Riotto and Mark Trodden, hep-ph/9901362
    • “Big Bang nucleosynthesis and physics beyond the Standard Model,” Subir Sarkar, hep-ph/9602260
    • “Cosmic strings,” M.B. Hindmarsh and T.W.B. Kibble, hep-ph/9411342
    • “Superstring Cosmology,” James E. Lidsey, David Wands, and E.J. Copeland, hep-th/9909061
  • Inflation
    • “An introduction to cosmological inflation,” Andrew R Liddle, astro-ph/9901124
    • “An Exposition on Inflationary Cosmology,” Scott Watson, astro-ph/0005003
    • “Inflation and the Theory of Cosmological Perturbations,” Antonio Riotto, hep-ph/0210162
    • “Inflation, quantum fluctuations and cosmological perturbations,” David Langlois, hep-th/0405053
    • “Inflationary Cosmology: Progress and Problems,” Robert Brandenberger, hep-ph/9910410
    • “Particle Physics Models of Inflation and the Cosmological Density Perturbation,” David H. Lyth and Antonio Riotto, hep-ph/9807278
    • “Inflation and Eternal Inflation,” Alan H. Guth, astro-ph/0002156
    • “From the Big Bang Theory to the Theory of a Stationary Universe,” Andrei Linde, Dmitri Linde, Arthur Mezhlumian, gr-qc/9306035
    • “Reconstructing the Inflaton Potential — an Overview,” James E Lidsey, Andrew R Liddle, Edward W Kolb, Edmund J Copeland, Tiago Barreiro, Mark Abney, astro-ph/9508078
  • CMB and Cosmological Perturbations
    • “Lecture Notes on CMB Theory,” Wayne Hu, arxiv:0802.3688
    • “The Cosmic Microwave Background and Particle Physics,” Marc Kamionkowski and Arthur Kosowsky, astro-ph/9904108
    • “The Cosmic Microwave Background,” Arthur Kosowsky, astro-ph/0102402
    • “The Standard Cosmological Model and CMB Anisotropies,” James G. Bartlett, astro-ph/9903260
    • “The Cold Dark Matter Density Perturbation,” Andrew R Liddle and David H Lyth, astro-ph/9303019
    • “A CMB Polarization Primer”, W. Hu and M. White, astro-ph/9706147
    • “Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies,” W. Hu and S. Dodelson, astro-ph/0110414
    • “The theory of CMB anisotropies,” Ruth Durrer, astro-ph/0109522
  • Dark Energy and the Cosmological Constant
    • “The Cosmological Constant,” Sean Carroll, astro-ph/0004075
    • “Why is the Universe Accelerating?”, Sean Carroll, astro-ph/0310342
    • “Dynamics of dark energy,” Edmund J. Copeland, M. Sami, and Shinji Tsujikawa, hep-th/0603057
    • “The Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy,” P. J. E. Peebles and Bharat Ratra, astro-ph/0207347
    • “The Case for a Positive Cosmological Lambda-term,” Varun Sahni and Alexei Starobinsky, astro-ph/9904398
    • “Quintessential Cosmology and Cosmic Acceleration,” Paul Steinhardt, postscript
    • “Cosmological constant vs. quintessence,” Pierre Binetruy, hep-ph/0005037
    • “The Cosmological Constant From The Viewpoint Of String Theory,” Edward Witten, hep-ph/0002297
    • “The cosmological constant problem,” Steven Weinberg, Rev Mod Phys.
    • “Categorizing Different Approaches to the Cosmological Constant Problem,” Stefan Nobbenhuis, gr-qc/0411093
  • Dark Matter
    • “TASI Lectures on Dark Matter,” Keith Olive, astro-ph/0301505
    • “Particle Dark Matter,” G. Bertone, D. Hooper, and J. Silk, hep-ph/0404175
    • “Self-Interacting Dark Matter,” Benjamin D. Wandelt, Romeel Dave, Glennys R. Farrar, Patrick C. McGuire, David N. Spergel, Paul J. Steinhardt, astro-ph/0006344
    • “Does Dark Matter Exist?,” J. A. Sellwood and A. Kosowsky, astro-ph/0009074
    • “Supersymmetric Dark Matter,” G. Jungman, M. Kamionkowski, and K. Griest, pdf
  • Gravity
    • “A no-nonsense introduction to general relativity,” Sean Carroll, postscript, pdf.
    • “Gravitation, experiment and cosmology,” Thibault Damour, gr-qc/9606079
    • “Gravitation and Experiment,” Thibault Damour, gr-qc/9711061
    • “The Confrontation between General Relativity and Exeriment.” Clifford Will, gr-qc/0103036
    • “Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law,” E.G. Adelberger, B.R. Heckel, and A.E. Nelson, hep-ph/0307284
    • “New physics and astronomy with the new gravitational-wave observatories,” Scott A. Hughes, Szabolcs Marka, Peter L. Bender, and Craig J. Hogan , astro-ph/0110349
    • “TASI Lectures on Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe,” Alessandra Buonanno, gr-qc/0303085
    • “Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime,” L.H. Ford, gr-qc/9707062
    • “The fundamental constants and their variation: observational status and theoretical motivations,” Jean-Philippe Uzan, hep-ph/0205340
  • Black Holes (Thermodynamics etc.)
    • “Black Holes,” P.K. Townsend, gr-qc/9707012
    • “An Introduction to Black Hole Evaporation,” J. Traschen, gr-qc/0010055
    • “Introductory Lectures on Black Hole Thermodynamics,” T.A. Jacobson, postscript
    • “The Thermodynamics of Black Holes,” Robert M. Wald, gr-qc/9912119
    • “TASI lectures on black holes in string theory,” Amanda W. Peet, hep-th/0008241
  • Field Theory/Particle Physics
    • “Fields,” Warren Siegel, web page, pdf
    • “Symmetries of the Standard Model,” Scott Willenbrock, hep-ph/0410370
    • “Beyond the Standard Model,” Michael E. Peskin, hep-ph/9705479
    • “Collider Experiment: Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions”, Maria Spiropulu, hep-ex/0305019
  • Supersymmetry
    • “A Supersymmetry Primer,” Stephen P. Martin, hep-ph/9709356
    • “Introduction to Supersymmetry,” Joseph D. Lykken, hep-th/9612114
    • “Twenty Open Questions in Supersymmetric Particle Physics,” Keith R. Dienes and Christopher Kolda, hep-ph/9712322
    • “Introduction to S-Duality in N=2 Supersymmetric Gauge Theory. (A pedagogical review of the work of Seiberg and Witten),” L. Alvarez-Gaume and S.F. Hassan, hep-th/9701069
    • “Magnetic Monopoles, Duality, and Supersymmetry,” Jeffrey A. Harvey, hep-th/9603086
    • “Supersymmetry Phenomenology With a Broad Brush,” Michael Dine, hep-ph/9612389
    • “Supersymmetry Breaking,” Yael Shadmi, hep-th/0601076
    • “Lectures on Supersmmetry Breaking,” Kenneth Intrilligator and Nathan Seiberg, hep-ph/0702069
  • String/M-theory
    • “Introduction to String Theory,” Thomas Mohaupt, hep-th/0207249
    • “String Duality–A Colloquium,” Joseph Polchinski, hep-th/9607050
    • “M Theory and Cosmology,” Tom Banks, hep-th/9911067
    • “String/M-branes for Relativists,” Donald Marolf, gr-qc/9908045
    • “String Theory, Supersymmetry, Unification, and All That,” John Schwarz and Nathan Seiberg, hep-th/9803179
    • “The holographic principle,” Raphael Bousso, hep-th/0203101
    • “Four Lectures on M-theory,” P.K. Townsend, hep-th/9612121
    • “Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity,” O. Aharony, S.S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz, hep-th/9905111
    • “TASI Lectures on M Theory Phenomenology,” Michael Dine, hep-th/0003175
    • “TASI Lectures: Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence,” Igor R. Klebanov, hep-th/0009139
  • Branes and Extra Dimensions
    • “Branes for Relativists,” Jiro Soda, gr-qc/0108046
    • “D-Brane Primer,” Clifford V. Johnson, hep-th/0007170
    • “TASI Lectures on D-Branes,” Joseph Polchinski, hep-th/9611050
    • “Large and infinite extra dimensions,” V. A. Rubakov, hep-ph/0104152
    • “Brane worlds,” Rainer Dick, hep-th/0105320
    • “Phenomenology, Astrophysics and Cosmology of Theories with Sub-Millimeter Dimensions and TeV Scale Quantum Gravity,” Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, and Gia Dvali, hep-ph/9807344
    • “Particle Physics Probes Of Extra Spacetime Dimensions,” JoAnne Hewett and Maria Spiropulu, hep-ph/0205106
    • “Brane cosmology: an introduction,” David Langlois, hep-th/0209261
    • “Brane World Cosmology,” Philippe Brax, Carsten van de Bruck, Anne-Christine Davis, hep-th/0404011
  • Math
    • “An Elementary Introduction to Groups and Representations,” Brian C. Hall, math-ph/0005032
    • “Semi-Simple Lie Algebras and their Representations,” Robert Cahn, postscript (via html)
    • “Notes on Group Theory and Representations”, Gerard Jungman pdf
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