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Article Contents

TITLE PAGE

1.THE THERMAL HISTORY OF MATTER

1.1.Cosmic densities

1.2.Reaching for the past

1.3.Cosmic timescales

2.PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS

2.1.Nucleosynthetic yields

3.TESTING COSMOLOGICAL MODELS

3.1.Proliferation of particle families

3.2.Evidence from the width of the Z

3.3.Evidence from mass renormalisation

3.4.Evidence from primordial nucleosynthesis

4.A MULTIDIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE

5.THE COSMIC QUARK-HADRON PHASE TRANSITION

5.1.Recipes for the glue

6.THE PHASE DIAGRAM

6.1.Exploring the phase diagram

7.THE PHYSICS OF THE PHASE DIAGRAM

7.1.Energy densities in the two phases

7.2.Order parameters of the phase transition

8.COSMIC SCENARIO

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