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Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics - MPP Theory Group

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652 Subject Index<br />

energy transfer (cont’d)<br />

radiative 4, 17–19, 131<br />

WIMPs 22<br />

equation of state<br />

impact on SN neutrino signal 412f<br />

normal stars 6<br />

nuclear 600<br />

equivalence principle: tests 113, 498,<br />

554f<br />

escape velocity<br />

galaxy 26<br />

globular clusters 25<br />

Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian 183<br />

EXOSAT 56f<br />

explosion mechanism<br />

→ supernova: type II<br />

F<br />

Faraday effect 180<br />

Fermi<br />

constant 545f, 583<br />

energy 594<br />

momentum 594<br />

Fermi-Dirac distribution 593–96<br />

<strong>for</strong>ward scattering 196–98<br />

fifth <strong>for</strong>ce 112–16, 500<br />

fine-structure constant<br />

axion-nucleon 119<br />

electromagnetic 580<br />

new bosons 92<br />

pion-nucleon 119<br />

flavor-changing neutral current 263f,<br />

303, 326<br />

flavor conversion<br />

→ neutrino oscillations<br />

fluence: definition 463<br />

foe 402<br />

<strong>for</strong>m factor → neutrino <strong>for</strong>m factor<br />

free-bound transition 100f<br />

Fréjus experiment 291f<br />

FTD field theory xviii–xix, 105, 174,<br />

241<br />

fundamental length scale 500<br />

G<br />

G117–B15A 53f<br />

GALLEX 343f, 357–59, 362–64, 371,<br />

373<br />

gallium detectors 343f, 357–59, 362–64,<br />

371<br />

gauge<br />

bosons: new 114–16<br />

invariance 204–6<br />

General Relativity → gravitation<br />

giant star<br />

→ red giant<br />

definition 10<br />

GIM suppression 266f<br />

globular cluster<br />

→ red giants, HB stars, RR Lyrae<br />

stars<br />

ages 62f, 66, 552–54<br />

general properties 25f<br />

M3 25, 27<br />

observables<br />

interpretation 74–79<br />

in the color-magnitude diagram<br />

60–65<br />

observational results 70–74<br />

theoretical relations 65–70<br />

gluons 159, 525, 527, 530<br />

g-mode → helioseismology<br />

gravitation<br />

Brans-Dicke theory 548<br />

equivalence principle: tests 113, 498f,<br />

554f<br />

graviton 116, 166, 191, 254<br />

induced neutrino mixing 555<br />

nonmetric theory 498<br />

nonsymmetric extension 554<br />

quantum 532f<br />

Shapiro time delay 498, 554<br />

time-varying G N 546–54<br />

gravitational settling<br />

description 13f<br />

globular-cluster ages 13, 66<br />

red-giant envelope helium abundance<br />

66, 74, 77<br />

solar neutrino flux 14, 352, 354<br />

graviton 116, 166, 191, 254<br />

group velocity 199<br />

GRS instrument 465f

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