Theoretical physics related resources

Net Advance of physics: http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/

HEP:

1. Daniel Harlow (September 2019): link,
2. Particle fever: link,
3. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse? link,

Popular level expositions: cosmology

1. The first three minutes by Steven Weinberg,
2. We have no idea: a guide to the unknown universe by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson,
3. The big bang by Simon Singh, 
4. The inflationary universe by Alan Guth.

Popular level expositions: string theory

1. Is string phenomenology an oxymoron? https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01569
2. Life at the interface of particle physics and string theory: https://www.nikhef.nl/~t58/RMP_Extended_BW.pdf
3. Witten: 2010 Newton medal: String theory and the Universe
4. Shiraz Minwalla:
1. 2018 talk on Quantum gravity and AdS/CFT,
2. 2015 talk,

More technical expositions:

1. Matt Reece: ICTP summer school 2019: formal developments in HEP (WGC and swampland programme): lecture 01, 
2. Shiraz Minwalla's older lectures on string theory,
1. Introduction; action for a massive relativistic point particle; constraints and quantization;
3. Shiraz Minwalla's 2018 lectures on string theory,
4. Ashoke Sen's lectures on string compactifications,
5. Ashoke Sen's lectures on Advanced QFT,
6. Ashoke Sen's lectures on General Relativity,
7. Ashoke Sen's lectures on Cosmology,
1. Review of FRW universe, Review of thermodynamics: Micro-canonical ensemble.
2. Review of statistical mechanics: grand-canonical ensemble, counting number of independent equations and variables in FRW cosmology.
3. Properties of Statistical system with multiple components in thermal equilibrium , entropy conservation, relation of chemical potentials of particles and anti-particles, behaviour of number densities, energy densities and pressure for non-relativistic and relativistic particles.
4. Quantitative statement of particle decoupling, decoupling of neutrinos in radiation dominated era, effective temperature after decoupling, wave number scaling after decoupling of a massive particle.
5. State of the universe around 1 MeV temperature, ratios of photon and neutrino temperature, time of photon and neutrino decoupling.
6. Continuation of studying evolution of the universe from 1MeV to 0.1 MeV energy scale, What happens to the hydrogen-helium ratio if there are additional massless particles or neutrino anti-neutrino number difference? numerical estimation of time scale and ratio of photon-neutrino temperature at various energy scale.
7. Evolution of neutron-proton system in chemical equilibrium via weak interactions, derivation of neutron-proton ratio at temperature 1 MeV scale, evolution of neutron-proton using non-equilibrium dynamics below 1 MeV temperature.
8. TBA
9. Rate of change of neutron fraction with time in non-equilibrium dynamics, approximate analysis of nuclei formation , determination of hydrogen helium ratio in our universe.
10. Re-derivation of helium to hydrogen ratio, Neucleosynthesis at 10^9 K temperature.
11. Evaluation of deuteron number density, determination of temperature when photon goes out of equilibrium.
12. Recombination
13. TBA
14. TBA
15. Sakharov conditions
16. Baryogenesis
17. TBA
18. Dark matter, WIMP
19. Axionic dark matter, Horizon problem and it’s possible solution via inflation.
20. Slow roll conditions, Constraints on inflaton potential, reheating.
21. Scalar field driven inflation, Reheating temperature, Puzzle regarding non-homogeneity of CMB spectrum.
22. Comoving Hubble radius, quantum fluctuations during inflation, two point function of inflaton field fluctuations
23. Quantisation of inflaton fluctuation field, Bunch-Davies vacuum.
24. Metric fluctuations during inflation.
25. Study of metric perturbation, metric scalar mode fluctuation, two point correlation function of gauge invariant scalar mode fluctuations, scalar power spectrum, tensor power spectrum and their relationship with CMB spectrum, constraints on inflation energy scale.
26. From CMB observation derivation of inflation scale and Lyth bound, spectral indices, physical interpretation of gauge invariant scalar perturbation.
27. Identification of gauge invariant scalar fluctuations and strategy of their classical evolution in the super horizon range.
28. Classical evolution of scalar perturbation, Initial condition during inflation.
29. Computation of energy momentum tensor components for Inflation fluctuations during slow roll inflation, Classical evolution eq. in super-horizon era and eq. of state.
30. Vector perturbation, Tensor perturbation, correlations in angular directions of last scattering surface, Observed CMB angular spectrum and the origin of oscillation in that spectrum.
31. Angular correlation of scalar perturbation, Polarisation of CMB photons, Intensity tensor.
32. Computation of CMB temperature fluctuations from the scalar fluctuations in times of inflation if the horizon re-entry happens in matter or radiation dominated era.
33. Towards CMB observations.