Cosmology with MATLAB

Cosmology with MATLAB makes explicit use of the synergy between cosmology and high energy physics like supersymmetry and dark matter, or nucleosynthesis and the baryon-to-photon ratio. In particular, the text explores the exciting possible connection between the recently discovered Higgs scalar and the scalar field responsible for inflation.

The recent great advances in the accuracy of the basic cosmological parameters is exploited in that no free scale parameters such as h appear, rather the basic calculations are done numerically using all sources of energy density simultaneously. Scripts are provided that allow the reader to calculate exact results for the basic parameters. MATLAB and the Symbolic Math Toolbox are used throughout the text. The UI functionality is also shown as an example of the real-time manipulation of parameters that is available to the reader.

All the MATLAB scripts within the text are made available to the reader to explore examples of the uses of the suite of tools. Indeed, readers should be able to engage in a command line "dialogue" or go on to edit the scripts and write their own versions.