Index
A-terms, 139
abundance, 148
affine, 279
Affleck-Dine mechanism, 137-142
age of universe, 8-10
axion, 155
astrophysical constraints,
159-161
bremsstrahlung, 160, 162
cosmology, 161-169
dark matter. 169
decays, 157. 158
DFSZ or GUT, 159-161. 169
interactions, 156
invisible, 159
KSVZ orhadronic, 159. 161, 169
misalignment, 165
Primakoff process. 160
production. 160. 161
relic abundance, 163
thermal production. 161
visible. 158
axions
and SN1987A. 161
B - L conservation. 103. 104, 116
B - L non-conservation, Ill, 139
baryogenesis, 91-142
and inflation, 113
in SO(lO) GUT, 110-113
in SU(5) GUT, 108-110
in supersymmetric electroweak
theory. 132-137
necessary conditions, 94-96
via Aflleck-Dine mechanism,
137-142
via sphalerons. 120-127
via superbeavy boson decay.
96-99
baryon asymmetry, 91
value of. 93
value of 118.93
value of 11.92
baryon number non-conservation
in SU(5) GUT, 101, 103
in the standard model. 114-120
Bekenstein-Hawking formula, 284.
288,303,305
big-bang nucleosynthesis, 21-27
black hole
entropy,281,284,288
extreme, 291-293
microstates, 289
Reissner-Nordstrom, 282, 292,
293,300
Schwarzchild, 277
temperature, 284
bounce solution, 59, 60
BPS bound. 292
B PS states, 291
bubble, 130, 132-133
bulk region. 185, 189
chaotic inflation, 217
chemical potentials. 136
Chem-Simons number, 119, 123,
126
CMSSM, 181, 185
309