THE THERMAL HISTORY OF MATTER
- Cosmic densities
Reaching for the past
Cosmic timescales
PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
- Nucleosynthetic yields
TESTING COSMOLOGICAL MODELS
- Proliferation of particle families
Evidence from the width of the Z
Evidence from mass renormalisation
Evidence from primordial nucleosynthesis
A MULTIDIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE
THE COSMIC QUARK-HADRON PHASE TRANSITION
- Recipes for the glue
THE PHASE DIAGRAM
- Exploring the phase diagram
THE PHYSICS OF THE PHASE DIAGRAM
- Energy densities in the two phases
Order parameters of the phase transition
COSMIC SCENARIO
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