Table of Contents

Effective potential and phase transitions.- Gravitational Waves.- Black Holes.- High energy cosmic rays.- Dark Matter.- Supersymmetry.- Inflation.- Lorentz transformations of fields.- The FRW Universe.- Gauge Invariant Metric Perturbations.

About the Author

Dr. Subhendra Mohanty obtained his Ph.D from University of Wisconsin-Madison and, after a few post-doctoral stints at CERN, ICTP and other institutions, has been at the Physical Research Laboratory (India) where he is currently a Senior Professor. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona. Dr. Mohanty has given numerous courses on various aspects of particle physics and cosmology at his home institution and outside, being an early adopter of the genre of Astroparticle Physics. He has published more than hundred research papers with his local and international collaborators and has trained numerous PhD students and young researchers in the field.