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Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics - MPP Theory Group

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Subject Index 651<br />

Coulomb gauge 204<br />

Coulomb propagator in pl<strong>as</strong>ma 221f,<br />

226<br />

CP symmetry 241, 246, 262, 271, 453,<br />

524–26<br />

Crab Nebula 38, 56f<br />

critical field strength 581<br />

crossing relation 323<br />

current algebra 167, 535<br />

D<br />

δ Cepheids 40f<br />

δ Scuti stars 41<br />

damping → neutrino oscillations:<br />

damping by collisions<br />

DA Variables 53<br />

dark matter xv–xvi, xviii, 22, 24, 177f,<br />

258f, 528, 542–44, 558<br />

decoherence 311, 313f<br />

degeneracy parameter 124, 595f, 603<br />

delayed explosion mechanism 399,<br />

402–5, 426, 436f, 522<br />

Delbrück scattering 183<br />

deleptonization burst<br />

→ prompt neutrino burst<br />

deleptonization: supernova core 339,<br />

398, 401, 408<br />

density matrix (neutrino flavor)<br />

collision equation 319, 323–31<br />

definition 284, 315–16<br />

derivative coupling 119, 531f, 536, 563<br />

detailed balance 129, 137, 146<br />

DFSZ axions 535–40<br />

dielectric permittivity 173, 208f<br />

diffusion<br />

elements → gravitational settling<br />

neutrinos → neutrino opacity<br />

dipole moment<br />

→ neutrino dipole moments<br />

neutron electric 524–26<br />

other particles 525<br />

units 525, 581<br />

Dirac matrices 270<br />

Dirac neutrinos → neutrino m<strong>as</strong>s,<br />

neutrinos: right-handed<br />

direct explosion mechanism 399, 401f<br />

dispersion<br />

→ neutrino dispersion, photon<br />

dispersion<br />

general theory 193–202<br />

double beta decay → ββ decay<br />

DUMAND xvi, 558<br />

dynamical structure function →<br />

structure function<br />

E<br />

Einstein x-ray satellite 56–58, 189<br />

electron charge 581<br />

electro-Primakoff effect 172f<br />

energy conservation in stars 10f<br />

energy-loss argument<br />

analytic treatment 14–16<br />

applied to<br />

HB stars 79–82, 98f, 107–9, 112,<br />

176, 236<br />

neutron stars 59f<br />

red giants 83–87, 107–9, 236<br />

red supergiants 2<br />

Sun 16f, 20f, 109f, 175f<br />

supernova core 501–23<br />

white dwarfs 47–52<br />

ZZ Ceti stars 52–54<br />

introduction 3–5, 21f<br />

numerical treatment 16f, 47–52, 81,<br />

83–87, 108f, 508–11, 513–16<br />

energy-loss rate<br />

bremsstrahlung<br />

electronic 102–5<br />

nucleonic 121–6, 128–30, 147–49,<br />

156f<br />

Compton process 96–98<br />

pl<strong>as</strong>ma process 232–36<br />

Primakoff process 169, 174<br />

quark matter 157f<br />

URCA processes 153f<br />

energy-momentum conservation 121,<br />

200<br />

energy transfer<br />

→ convection, opacity<br />

equation 11–13<br />

particle bounds<br />

general argument 4f, 17f<br />

Sun 20f<br />

SN 1987A 503, 506–11

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