Beyond the Standard Model Cocktail

TL;DR

This comprehensive book surveys key open questions at the intersection of particle physics and cosmology, focusing on dark matter, phase transitions, and gravitational waves, combining reviews and original research.

Contribution

It provides an extensive, up-to-date overview of major open problems and solutions in particle cosmology, including original research contributions.

Findings

Detailed review of dark matter theories and solutions

Analysis of cosmological phase transitions and gravitational waves

Compilation of current experimental and theoretical progress

Abstract

This book provides a thorough survey of the important questions at the interface between theoretical particle physics and cosmology. After discussing the theoretical and experimental physics revolution that led to the rise of the Standard Model in the past century, this volume reviews all major open puzzles, like the hierarchy problem, the small value of the cosmological constant, the matter-antimatter asymmetry, or the dark matter problem, and presents the state-of-the-art in the proposed solutions, with an extensive bibliography. This manuscript emphasises the fields of thermal dark matter, cosmological first-order phase transitions and gravitational-wave signatures. Comprehensive and encyclopedic, this book could be a rich resource for both researchers and students entering the field. In addition to the reviews composing two third of the material, one third presents the original PhD research work of the author.