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Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics - MPP Theory Group

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654 Subject Index<br />

left-right symmetric model 268<br />

leptonic <strong>for</strong>ce 114–16, 500<br />

lepton<br />

fraction in nuclear matter 600, 602–5<br />

m<strong>as</strong>ses 252, 265<br />

profile in SN core 398<br />

level crossing 295f, 298<br />

linear-response theory 204–6, 208f<br />

long-range <strong>for</strong>ce → fifth <strong>for</strong>ce,<br />

scalar particles, photon<br />

long-wavelength limit 121, 128f, 141–43<br />

Lorentz<br />

addition of velocities 500f<br />

gauge 204<br />

Lorentzian model <strong>for</strong> structure function<br />

135, 144–47<br />

LPM effect 145, 148f<br />

M<br />

M1 transition 94, 102<br />

M3 (globular cluster) 25, 27<br />

magnetic dipole moment<br />

→ neutrino dipole moments<br />

units 581<br />

magnetic field<br />

Earth 556<br />

galactic 188–90, 484, 499<br />

large-scale cosmic 191<br />

Jupiter 556<br />

neutron stars 185–88, 444f<br />

primordial 278<br />

Small Magellanic Cloud 556<br />

solar 186, 373–76, 387f, 554, 565<br />

supernova 522<br />

twisting 308f<br />

white dwarfs 185f<br />

magnetic oscillations<br />

→ neutrino spin precession<br />

magnetic permeability 208f<br />

magnetogram 375<br />

main sequence<br />

helium 35, 592<br />

internal stellar conditions 592, 599<br />

lifetime 27, 552<br />

location in color-magnitude diagram<br />

27, 41, 61<br />

turnoff 27, 61–63<br />

zero-age 26<br />

Majorana neutrinos → neutrino m<strong>as</strong>s<br />

majorons<br />

→ pseudoscalar bosons<br />

ββ decay 560f<br />

decay in media 195, 248–50, 259f<br />

interaction with supernova neutrinos<br />

495<br />

motivation 558–62<br />

neutrino decay: limits 562–64<br />

nucleosynthesis constraints 259f<br />

solar neutrino decay 389<br />

supernova physics 562–64<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s fraction (of elements) 591f<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s loss 25, 34, 36<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s-radius relationship 9, 42<br />

Maxwell’s equations 202–4<br />

mean molecular weight 591<br />

meson condensate 59, 155–57, 243<br />

metallicity<br />

α-enhanced 78f<br />

globular cluster 26, 34, 60, 66f, 78f<br />

impact on opacity 12<br />

Sun 24<br />

Mexican hat 529, 542<br />

Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect<br />

→ neutrino oscillations: resonant<br />

millicharged particles 227f, 232–36,<br />

564–67<br />

misalignment mechanism 541f<br />

mixing angle in medium 294–7<br />

mixing between particles<br />

→ neutrino mixing, neutrino<br />

oscillations<br />

axion-photon 179–81<br />

axion-pion 527f, 534<br />

general theory 260–63<br />

graviton-photon 191<br />

gravitationally induced 555<br />

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

molecular chaos 319<br />

monopoles xv<br />

MSW<br />

bathtub 301–3<br />

effect → neutrino oscillations<br />

solution of solar neutrino problem<br />

384–86<br />

triangle 301–3, 386, 434

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