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Edward Kolb

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Cosmology

#45

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#49

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#21

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Astrophysics

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#84

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Edward Kolb's Degrees

PhD Physics University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors Physics University of Kentucky

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According to Wikipedia, Edward W. Kolb, known as Rocky Kolb, is a cosmologist and a professor at the University of Chicago as well as the dean of Physical Sciences. He has worked on many aspects of the Big Bang cosmology, including baryogenesis, nucleosynthesis and dark matter. He is author, with Michael Turner, of the popular textbook The Early Universe . Additionally, alongside his co-author Michael Turner, Kolb was awarded the 2010 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.

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Published Works

The early Universe (1981) (7065)
Report of the Dark Energy Task Force (2006) (655)
Reconstructing the inflaton potential—an overview (1995) (573)
Cosmological Problems for the Polonyi Potential (1983) (555)
Largest temperature of the radiation era and its cosmological implications (2000) (463)
Superheavy dark matter (1998) (349)
Solutions to the strong-CP problem in a world with gravity☆ (1992) (327)
Maverick dark matter at colliders (2010) (318)
Production of massive particles during reheating (1998) (311)
Baryon number generation in the early universe (1980) (291)
On cosmic acceleration without dark energy (2005) (257)
Probing Planckian physics : resonant production of particles during inflation and features in the primordial power spectrum (1999) (215)
Nonthermal Supermassive Dark Matter (1998) (195)
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe (2000) (183)
Gravitational production of superheavy dark matter (2001) (179)
Cosmological observables in a Swiss-cheese universe (2007) (178)
Effect of inhomogeneities on the expansion rate of the universe (2004) (172)
Deducing the nature of dark matter from direct and indirect detection experiments in the absence of collider signatures of new physics (2008) (167)
Astrophysical Bounds on the Masses of Axions and Higgs Particles (1978) (158)
Grand Unified Theories and the Origin of the Baryon Asymmetry (1983) (158)
The shadow world of superstring theories (1985) (153)
Inflation model constraints from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe three-year data (2006) (137)
Is there proof that backreaction of inhomogeneities is irrelevant in cosmology? (2015) (136)
Cosmic microwave background measurements can discriminate among inflation models (1997) (133)
Primordial Nucleosynthesis Including Radiative, Coulomb, and Finite Temperature Corrections to Weak Rates (1982) (123)
Probing dark matter couplings to top and bottom quarks at the LHC (2013) (120)
Light-cone averages in a Swiss-cheese universe (2007) (117)
Findings of the Joint Dark Energy Mission Figure of Merit Science Working Group (2009) (115)
Reopening the window on charged dark matter (2008) (115)
Dimensional reduction in the early universe: Where have the massive particles gone? (1984) (107)
Cosmological upper bound on heavy-neutrino lifetimes (1977) (101)
A coasting cosmology (1989) (94)
Femtolensing and Picolensing by Axion Miniclusters (1995) (91)
Cosmological implications of massive, unstable neutrinos (1978) (91)
Curvature perturbations from broken symmetries (2004) (85)
Monopole catalysis of nucleon decay in neutron stars (1982) (84)
On the reheating stage after inflation (2003) (78)
Is Cygnus X-3 Strange? (1985) (76)
Cosmological background solutions and cosmological backreactions (2009) (70)
The fermionic dark matter Higgs portal: an effective field theory approach (2014) (68)
Inflationary physics from the Wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe (2004) (68)
Mechanical quantum sensing in the search for dark matter (2020) (65)
Isocurvature constraints on gravitationally produced superheavy dark matter (2004) (64)
Astrophysical bounds on very-low-mass axions (1980) (63)
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays from annihilation of superheavy dark matter (2001) (60)
Primordial inflation explains why the universe is accelerating today (2005) (59)
More dimensions—Less entropy (1984) (58)
Enhanced signal of astrophysical tau neutrinos propagating through earth (2001) (57)
Superheavy dark matter through Higgs portal operators (2017) (54)
Backreaction of inhomogeneities can mimic dark energy (2011) (52)
Extra dimensions present a new flatness problem (2000) (51)
Description of our cosmological spacetime as a perturbed conformal Newtonian metric and implications for the backreaction proposal for the accelerating universe (2008) (51)
Are ultrahigh energy cosmic rays a signal for supersymmetry (1997) (50)
GUT baryogenesis after preheating: numerical study of the production and decay of X-bosons (1998) (49)
Gravitational production of super-Hubble-mass particles: an analytic approach (2018) (48)
Completely dark photons from gravitational particle production during the inflationary era (2021) (45)
Inflationary potentials yielding constant scalar perturbation spectral indices (2003) (44)
Dark matter coupling to electroweak gauge and Higgs bosons: An effective field theory approach (2013) (40)
The development of baryon asymmetry in the early universe (1980) (39)
Yet Another Possible Explanation of the Solar Neutrino Puzzle (1986) (38)
Neutrino pair bremsstrahlung including neutral current effects (1976) (38)
GUT Baryogenesis after Preheating (1996) (38)
Standard model neutrinos as warm dark matter (2000) (37)
Basic Research Needs for Dark-Matter Small Projects New Initiatives: Report of the Department of Energy’s High Energy Physics Workshop on Dark Matter (2018) (36)
Light-cone observations and cosmological models: implications for inhomogeneous models mimicking dark energy (2009) (36)
Toward stable compactifications (1986) (35)
Latest inflation model constraints from cosmic microwave background measurements : Addendum (2008) (35)
Exotic massive hadrons and ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (1998) (35)
Phase transitions with sub-critical bubbles (1991) (34)
Non-gaussianity from broken symmetries (2005) (34)
The radionactive universe (2003) (34)
Plausible double inflation (1991) (32)
Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the expansion rate of the early universe (1980) (32)
Grand unified theories and the lepton number of the Universe (1981) (32)
Massive neutrinos and primordial nucleosynthesis (1982) (31)
High-energy neutrinos from superheavy dark matter annihilation (2000) (31)
WMAPping inflationary physics (2003) (30)
Calculation of Cosmological Baryon Asymmetry in Grand Unified Gauge Models (1982) (30)
Inner Space/Outer Space: The Interface Between Cosmology and Particle Physics (1986) (30)
Cosmological Influence of Super-Hubble Perturbations (2004) (29)
Particle and nuclear astrophysics and cosmology in the next millenium: Snowmass 1994 (1994) (29)
Cosmology forum: Is dark energy really a mystery? (2010) (29)
Transdimensional Physics and Inflation (2002) (28)
Second order geodesic corrections to cosmic shear (2005) (26)
Irruption of massive particle species during inflation (2014) (26)
Particle and nuclear astrophysics and cosmology in the next millennium : proceedings of the 1994 Snowmass Summer Study, Snowmass, Colorado, June 29 - July 14, 1994 (1995) (25)
Limits from primordial nucleosynthesis on the properties of massive neutral leptons (1978) (25)
First-order inflation (1991) (25)
Mass and mixing angles of the tau neutrino (1979) (25)
New inflation in supersymmetric theories (1983) (25)
Massive, Degenerate Neutrinos and Cosmology (1983) (25)
Limits from the soft X-ray background on the temperature of old neutron stars and on the flux of superheavy magnetic monopoles (1984) (24)
On the reliability of inflaton potential reconstruction (1998) (24)
Ribbons on the Cosmic Background Radiation Sky: A Powerful Test of a Baryon Symmetric Universe (1997) (23)
The Early universe : reprints (1988) (23)
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Ultraheavy particle dark matter (2022) (22)
Lepton number violation, Majorana neutrinos, and supernovae (1982) (22)
Catastrophic production of slow gravitinos (2021) (20)
Comments on Backreaction and Cosmic Acceleration (2005) (20)
Gamma-ray constraints on dark-matter annihilation to electroweak gauge and Higgs bosons (2013) (20)
Cosmology and Extra Dimensions (1988) (18)
POST-INFLATION INCREASE OF THE COSMOLOGICAL TENSOR-TO-SCALAR PERTURBATION RATIO (2005) (18)
Harrison-Zel'dovich primordial spectrum is consistent with observations (2010) (18)
Searching for Stellar Mass Black Holes in the Solar Neighborhood (1996) (18)
THE GENERATION OF ISOTHERMAL PERTURBATIONS IN THE VERY EARLY UNIVERSE (1982) (18)
Latest inflation model constraints from cosmic microwave background measurements (2009) (18)
Gravitational clumping and the annihilation of monopoles (1981) (17)
66 38 v 1 [ he pph ] 2 6 M ar 2 01 3 Probing dark matter couplings to top and bottom at the LHC (2013) (17)
Impact of general reionization scenarios on extraction of inflationary parameters (2010) (16)
Extra dimensions present a new flatness problem (2002) (15)
False vacuum decay in Jordan-Brans-Dicke cosmologies (1989) (14)
On the relic abundance of stable neutrinos (1985) (13)
Particle production and symmetry restoration in collisions of vacuum bubbles (1996) (12)
Gravitino Swampland Conjecture. (2021) (12)
Completely Dark Photons from Gravitational Particle Production During Inflation (2020) (12)
Book Review: Blind watchers of the sky : the people and ideas that shaped our view of the universe / (1996) (11)
Modeling thermal fluctuations: phase mixing and percolation (1995) (11)
A thousand invisible cords binding astronomy and high-energy physics (2007) (11)
The pocket cosmology (2000) (11)
Reconstructing the Inflaton Potential (1994) (11)
Evolution of the order parameter after bubble collisions (1997) (10)
Dynamics of the Inflationary Era (1999) (10)
Cosmological data and indications for new physics (2013) (10)
Pierre auger data, photons, and top-down cosmic ray models (2006) (10)
Cosmological constraints on heavy weakly interacting fermions (1981) (9)
Astrophysical Production of Fractional Charge in Broken Quantum Chromodynamics (1981) (9)
False vacuum decay in generalized extended inflation (1990) (9)
Cosmology and the Unexpected (2007) (9)
On cosmological observables in a swiss-cheese universe (Conference proceeding) (2007) (9)
COSMOLOGICAL PRODUCTION OF KALUZA-KLEIN MONOPOLES (1984) (9)
Relic abundance of light photinos (1997) (9)
Black holes and local dark matter (1986) (8)
PHASE TRANSITIONS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC GRAND UNIFIED MODELS (1983) (8)
Lorentz invariance violation in top-down scenarios of ultrahigh energy cosmic ray creation (2003) (8)
Spontaneous lepton-number violation and de-leptonization in stellar collapse (1983) (7)
Instant nonthermal leptogenesis (2005) (7)
Dibaryons cannot be the dark matter (2018) (7)
Stellar energy-loss rates due to S, P, or T neutral currents (1977) (7)
Quantum fluctuations of axions (1997) (7)
Electroweak Anomaly and Lepton Asymmetry (1987) (7)
The fermionic dark matter Higgs portal: an effective field theory approach (2014) (7)
Dark-Matter Small Projects New Initiatives (2019) (7)
The survival of primordial color fluctuations (1982) (6)
Production And Inelastic-Scattering Of Neutrinos By Nuclei At Extreme Temperatures (1979) (6)
The Dynamics of Inflation (2001) (6)
On perturbation theory at finite temperature (1983) (6)
The Inflaton Potential from Present Day Observations (1995) (6)
Erratum: Cosmological upper bound on heavy-neutrino lifetimes (Physical Review Letters) (1977) (5)
Cosmology with very large gauge models (1983) (5)
Cosmology and the origin of structure (2002) (4)
The New Physics: Cosmology (2006) (4)
Particle Physics in the Early Universe (1998) (4)
Majorons and muon decay (1982) (4)
Lectures on particle physics and cosmology. (1986) (4)
Inflation in the postmodern era (1996) (4)
Completely dark photons from gravitational particle production during the inflationary era (2021) (4)
Ground state of high-density matter (1989) (4)
Cosmological baryon-number generation in grand unified models (1981) (3)
Plasmon decay to [nu][bar [nu]] in a relativistic plasma (1993) (3)
Resource Letter CPP-1:Cosmology and particle physics (1988) (3)
The influence of coherence in CePtSi (1996) (3)
Quantum interference in gravitational particle production (2022) (3)
PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY (1986) (3)
Book-Review - the Early Universe (1990) (3)
On the composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in top-down scenarios (2003) (3)
The Inflationary decade (1993) (2)
Lectures on Particle Cosmology (1987) (2)
Massive Magnetic Monopoles in Cosmology and Astrophysics (1984) (2)
The dimensional reduction transition (1984) (2)
The early universe. Collection of reprints (1988) (2)
Comments on Long-Wavelength Backreaction and Dark Energy (2005) (2)
Quantum universe: The revolution in 21st century particle physics (2006) (2)
Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays from dark matter annihilation (2002) (2)
Cosmological gravitational particle production of massive spin-2 particles (2023) (2)
The structure of “techni” jets (1984) (2)
Production and detection of new neutrinos (1978) (2)
THE ELECTROWEAK PHASE TRANSITION (1992) (2)
Astrophysical and cosmological constraints to neutrino properties (1989) (1)
A view of the early universe (1999) (1)
The important role of coherence for the heavy fermion state (1995) (1)
Baryon Number Generation in Supersymmetric Unified Models: The Effect of Supermassive Fermions (1983) (1)
From the Bronx to Batavia and Beyond: Leon Max Lederman (1922–2018) (2019) (1)
Reaction rate, weak corrections, and background in e+e-→π0γ,ηγ (1977) (1)
Astrophysics and Grand Unification (1981) (1)
Cosmology in theories with extra dimensions (1985) (1)
Grand unification and cosmology - an environmental impact statement. (1981) (1)
Completely dark matter from rapid-turn multifield inflation (2022) (1)
The Quantum and the Cosmos (2004) (1)
Cosmological Phase Transitions (1993) (1)
Fermilab 1987 : Annual Report of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1987) (0)
Book review (1989) (0)
Cosmological implications of massive, unstable neutrinos. [Lifetime] (1977) (0)
Can massless neutrinos dominate the universe (1980) (0)
ou rnal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (2009) (0)
Lepton-number violation in cosmology and astrophysics (1984) (0)
NSF-ITP-92-04CMU-HEP92-04 Cosrnological texture is incompatible with Planck-scale physics (2008) (0)
Cosmic Microwave Background Observations as a Way to Discriminate Among Inflation Models (1998) (0)
Probing the structure of the universe from quarks to cosmology (1986) (0)
The radioactive universe. (2003) (0)
Corrections to primordial nucleosynthesis (2008) (0)
Production and detection of new neutrinos. [Electromagnetic transition moment, production mechanism] (1978) (0)
Cosmological and Astrophysical Implications of Magnetic Monopoles (1985) (0)
Neutrino number of the universe (1981) (0)
Baryon and Lepton Number Violation in Astrophysics (1986) (0)
Semiclassical instability of compactification. [in dynamic universe model (1985) (0)
The pocket cosmology 1 15 . THE POCKET COSMOLOGY (0)
Review of Cosmological Baryogenesis (1990) (0)
WHO IS THE INFLATON (1998) (0)
The potential of potential reconstruction (1995) (0)
The potential of potential reconstruction (1995) (0)
High energy neutrinos from Cyg X-3 (1985) (0)
REMNANTS FROM COMPACTIFICATION (1984) (0)
ASTROPHYSICAL ANDCOSMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTSTO NEUTRINO PROPERTIES (1989) (0)
Primordial Nucleosynthesis with Generic Particles (1986) (0)
Cosmic microwave background measurements as a way to discriminate among inflation models (1998) (0)
Production of Inos in the Big Bang (1985) (0)
A Unified Theory of Einstein (2007) (0)
Nuclear Physics B229 (1983) 528-540 © North-Holland Pubhshing Company NEW INFLATION IN SUPERSYMMETRIC THEORIES (2002) (0)
Shadow of a Star: The Neutrino Story of Supernova 1987A, by Alfred K. Mann (1998) (0)
Proceedings, Workshop on Science Underground (1983) (0)
Early-Universe Issues: Seeds of Perturbations and Birth of Dark Matter (2000) (0)
Monopole Catalyzed Nucleon Decay: The Astrophysical Connection (1984) (0)
Dark Matter (2020) (0)
Cosmic Inflation (2020) (0)
Obituary: David N. Schramm (1945-97) (1998) (0)
Inflation, Dark Matter, Dark Energy (2005) (0)
Astrophysics and cosmology with a 17 keV neutrino. (1991) (0)
Particle creation in the expanding universe (2017) (0)
Reminiscences of Fermilab, 1983–2006 (2017) (0)
Observing the inflation potential (2019) (0)
36 1 v 1 1 4 O ct 1 99 8 WIMPZILLAS ! (1998) (0)
Fermi 4 N & tional Accelerator Laboratory (2003) (0)
Cosmology: the big bang and element creation. (1983) (0)
Baryogenesis (baryon genesis or matter/antimatter asymmetry) (2000) (0)
Cosmology at the Start of a New Century (2001) (0)
ANNOUNCEMENT The School of Cosmology and Gravitation (1987) (0)
A Report on Inner Space/Outer Space: A Conference on Physics at the Interface of Astrophysics/Cosmology and Particle Physics, Fermilab May 2-5, 1984 (1984) (0)
Observing the inflation potential. [in models of cosmological inflation (1993) (0)
Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (2018) (0)
Using an X-ray color-color diagram to search for hot neutron stars and set a limit on the magnetic monopole flux. (1985) (0)
he pph ] 3 0 A pr 2 01 3 Dark matter coupling to electroweak gauge and Higgs bosons : an effective field theory approach (2018) (0)
Cool Beginnings (2020) (0)
The Universe Observed (2018) (0)
Cosmology and tau neutrino magnetic moment (1996) (0)
Module: Elective Advanced Lectures: Theoretical Physics (2014) (0)
Motivational Insights (2020) (0)
Robertson-Walker Metric (2018) (0)
M1 transitions in a quark loop model. [Cascade process] (1977) (0)
First-order inflation. [in cosmology (1991) (0)
A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections (2020) (0)
Femtolensing and by Axion Miniclusters (1995) (0)
Astrophysical Limits to Weak Interaction Phenomenology. (1978) (0)
Leon Max Lederman (1922–2018) (2018) (0)
Searching for cygnets (1985) (0)
Dynamics of cosmological phase transitions: Metastability revisited (1993) (0)
COSMOLOGY, INFLATION, AND SUPERSYMMETRY (1982) (0)
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays: The annihilation of super-heavy relics (2001) (0)
Light photinos and supersymmetric dark matter (1996) (0)
The Inner Space/Outer Space Connections: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Inflation and All That (2011) (0)
Stellar energy loss rates due to SPT neutral currents. (1976) (0)
Fluctuation-driven electroweak phase transition. [in early universe] (1992) (0)
Three Lectures on Cosmology (1991) (0)
The inflation sector of extended inflation (1991) (0)
New Guises for Old Dark-Matter Suspects (1997) (0)
Gravitational production of super-Hubble-mass particles: an analytic approach (2019) (0)
Lecturers Advisory Board (2007) (0)
Back Reactions and Dark Energy (2010) (0)
Thermodynamics in The Expanding Universe (2018) (0)

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