TASI Lectures on AstroParticle Physics

Abstract

Selected topics in Astroparticle Physics including the CMB, dark matter, BBN, and the variations of fundamental couplings are discussed.

61 pages, 35 eps/ps figs

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• Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson at LEP
• The fundamental constants and their variation: observational status and theoretical motivations
• FeynHiggs: a program for the calculation of the masses of the neutral CP-even Higgs bosons in the MSSM
• Further Evidence for Cosmological Evolution of the Fine Structure Constant
• Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis and Hadronic Decay of Long-Lived Massive Particles
• Measurement of the Total Active 8B Solar Neutrino Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with Enhanced Neutral Current Sensitivity
• A Search for Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant
• DASI First Results: A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Angular Power Spectrum
• Hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment revisited
• Further evidence for a variable fine-structure constant from Keck/HIRES QSO absorption spectra
• Focus Points and Naturalness in Supersymmetry
• Hadronic Decay of Late-Decaying Particles and Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
• Branching Fraction and Photon Energy Spectrum b -> s gamma
• The cosmological baryon density from the deuterium to hydrogen ratio towards QSO absorption systems: D/H towards Q1243+3047
• Supersymmetric Dark Matter in Light of WMAP
• A High Spatial Resolution Analysis of the MAXIMA-1 Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Data
• Updated Nucleosynthesis Constraints on Unstable Relic Particles
• Updated Big Bang Nucleosynthesis confronted to WMAP observations and to the Abundance of Light Elements
• High Resolution Observations of the CMB Power Spectrum with ACBAR
• Possible evidence for a variable fine structure constant from QSO absorption lines: motivations, analysis and results
• B -> X_s gamma in supersymmetry: large contributions beyond the leading order
• SuperWIMP Dark Matter Signals from the Early Universe
• The Deuterium to Hydrogen Abundance Ratio Towards a Fourth QSO: HS0105+1619
• Limits on the time variation of the electromagnetic fine-structure constant in the low energy limit from absorption lines in the spectra of distant quasars
• b -> s γand supersymmetry with large tanβ
• Dark Matter Detection in the Light of Recent Experimental Results
• Primordial Nucleosynthesis for the New Cosmology: Determining Uncertainties and Examining Concordance
• WMAP Constraints, SUSY Dark Matter and Implications for the Direct Detection of SUSY
• Did Something Decay, Evaporate, or Annihilate during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis?
• Cosmological implications of the MAXIMA-I high resolution Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy measurement
• First Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search in the Soudan Underground Lab
• Supergravity with a Gravitino LSP
• Exclusion Limits on the WIMP-Nucleon Cross-Section from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
• The Primordial Abundance of He4: An Update
• Heavy Sneutrinos as Dark Matter
• Gravitino Dark Matter in the CMSSM
• Improved Exclusion Limits from the EDELWEISS WIMP Search
• Update on the Direct Detection of Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• A New Measurement of the Primordial Abundance of Deuterium: Toward Convergence with the Baryon Density from the CMB?
• Implications of Gauge Unification for Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant
• Present Status of Inclusive Rare B Decays
• SuperWIMP Gravitino Dark Matter from Slepton and Sneutrino Decays
• Is cosmology consistent?
• Constraints on the Variations of the Fundamental Couplings
• Halo Star Lithium Depletion
• Radiative Decay of a Long-Lived Particle and Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
• Present status of primordial nucleosynthesis after WMAP: results from a new BBN code
• Possible evidence for a variable fine structure constant from QSO absorption lines: systematic errors
• Radiative decay of a massive particle and the non-thermal process in primordial nucleosynthesis
• Cosmological Limits on the Neutrino Mass from the Lya Forest
• On the Thermal Regeneration Rate for Light Gravitinos in the Early Universe
• Improved Measurement of the Angular Power Spectrum of Temperature Anisotropy in the CMB from Two New Analyses of BOOMERANG Observations
• Primordial nucleosynthesis and hadronic decay of a massive particle with a relatively short lifetime
• Stellar Mixing and the Primordial Lithium Abundance
• Neutralinos, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and 6Li in Low-Metallicity Stars
• Solar Neutrino Constraints on the BBN Production of Li
• Likelihood Analysis of the CMSSM Parameter Space
• HELIUM PHOTODISINTEGRATION AND NUCLEOSYNTHESIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TOPOLOGICAL DEFECTS, HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS, AND MASSIVE BLACK HOLES
• Primordial nucleosynthesis with a varying fine structure constant: An improved estimate
• B -> X_s gamma in Supersymmetry with Explicit CP Violation
• Phenomenological Constraints on Patterns of Supersymmetry Breaking
• On the baryometric status of He3
• Direct Detection of Dark Matter in the MSSM with Non-Universal Higgs Masses
• First results from the Very Small Array -- IV. Cosmological parameter estimation
• Constraints on Omega_B from the nucleosynthesis of 7Li in the standard Big Bang
• The Chemical Evolution of Mg Isotopes vs. the Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant
• Space-time variation of the fine structure constant and evolution of isotope abundances
• Dark Matter, Muon g-2 and Other SUSY Constraints
• Implications of a new temperature scale for halo dwarfs on LiBeB and chemical evolution
• The Fine-structure Constant as a Probe of Chemical Evolution and AGB Nucleosynthesis in Damped Lyman-alpha Systems
• New constraints on varying $\alpha$
• Determination of the Branching Fraction for Inclusive Decays B -> X_{s} gamma
• Inclusive Rare B Decays
• Astrophysical and Cosmological Constraints on Neutrino masses
• Lithium in Very Metal-poor Dwarf Stars - Problems for Standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis?
• Search for alpha variation in UVES spectra: Analysis of C IV and Si IV doublets towards QSO 1101-264

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• Mixed Wino Dark Matter: Consequences for Direct, Indirect and Collider Detection
• Reduced LHC constraints for higgsino-like heavier electroweakinos
• Dark Radiation Constraints on Mixed Axion/Neutralino Dark Matter
• Neutralino, axion and axino cold dark matter in minimal, hypercharged and gaugino AMSB
• Dark matter and the LHC
• Revisiting the Exclusion Limits from Direct Chargino-Neutralino Production at the LHC
• Mixed Higgsino Dark Matter from a Large SU(2) Gaugino Mass
• Mirror matter can alleviate the cosmological lithium problem
• Probing SUSY beyond the reach of LEP2 at the Fermilab Tevatron: low |M_3| dark matter models
• SUSY dark matter and lepton flavor violation
• From Little Bangs to the Big Bang
• Exploring non minimal Universal Extra Dimensional Model at the LHC