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Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics - MPP Theory Group

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650 Subject Index<br />

binary pulsar → PSR 1913+16<br />

birefringence<br />

neutrino flavor 195, 281<br />

photon in media 180f, 194f, 208<br />

vacuum 183–5, 187f, 190f, 554<br />

Bloch state 155<br />

blue loop 32, 39–41<br />

bolometric correction 62<br />

bolometric magnitude: definition 28<br />

Boltzmann’s constant 580<br />

Boltzmann collision equation (<strong>for</strong> mixed<br />

neutrinos) 323–31<br />

BOREXINO 343, 371, 393f<br />

bounce and shock 399, 401–5<br />

bound-free transition 100f<br />

branching ratio 449<br />

Brans-Dicke theory 548<br />

bremsstrahlung<br />

cl<strong>as</strong>sical limit 143–47<br />

electronic 101-9<br />

nucleonic<br />

axial-vector vs. vector 127, 142<br />

bubble ph<strong>as</strong>e 159<br />

meson condensate 155–57<br />

neutrino pairs 127–30<br />

pseudoscalars 119–26, 143–45, 148f<br />

suppression at high density 148f<br />

quark matter 157f<br />

brown dwarfs 9, 24<br />

bubble ph<strong>as</strong>e 159<br />

bump on RGB 61, 64f<br />

C<br />

Cabbibo mixing 261, 285<br />

Cabbibo-Kobay<strong>as</strong>hi-M<strong>as</strong>kawa matrix<br />

262<br />

carbon-burning stars 2<br />

cavity axion experiment 177f, 191f, 544<br />

Cepheids 40f<br />

Chandr<strong>as</strong>ekhar limit 9, 25, 37, 42, 396<br />

charged current<br />

collision term (in neutrino<br />

oscillations) 331<br />

coupling constants 583<br />

Hamiltonian 329, 583<br />

reactions 1, 58f, 152–54<br />

charge quantization 564–67<br />

chemical potential 593–96, 600f<br />

Cherenkov<br />

effect 194, 216, 238f<br />

detectors → IMB, Kamiokande,<br />

Superkamiokande<br />

chirality 160, 253<br />

chiral symmetry 166, 529<br />

chlorine detector (solar neutrinos) 342f,<br />

357–62, 371<br />

CHORUS experiment 289f<br />

CKM matrix 262<br />

clump giants 76, 80<br />

CM energy 92<br />

CNO cycle 346f<br />

COBE satellite 191<br />

coherent neutrino scattering 396, 446<br />

collision equation <strong>for</strong> mixed neutrinos<br />

323–31<br />

color-magnitude diagram<br />

evolutionary track 31<br />

globular cluster M3 27<br />

globular-cluster observables 61<br />

populations of stars 41<br />

zero-age main sequence 26<br />

Compton process 20f, 91–98, 108<br />

conduction 11, 22, 78<br />

convection<br />

description 12f<br />

helium dredge-up 66, 77<br />

mixing length 12, 16, 351, 549f<br />

RGB bump 13, 61, 64f<br />

superadiabatic 12<br />

supernova 402–5, 444<br />

core<br />

red giant → red giant core m<strong>as</strong>s<br />

supernova → supernova core<br />

correlations: Coulomb pl<strong>as</strong>ma 222–25<br />

cosmic background fluxes<br />

γ-rays 487<br />

microwaves 191, 488, 546, 562<br />

neutrinos<br />

core-collapse SNe 447, 487f<br />

hydrogen-burning stars 487<br />

primordial → neutrinos: cosmic<br />

background<br />

photons 489f<br />

cosmic strings 191, 542–44<br />

cosmic structure <strong>for</strong>mation 258f<br />

cosmion xvi<br />

Cotton-Mouton effect 180, 183

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