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Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics - MPP Theory Group

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658 Subject Index<br />

oscillations (particles)<br />

→ neutrino oscillations<br />

axion-photon 179–82, 185f, 188–90<br />

graviton-photon 191<br />

inhomogeneous media 181, 442f<br />

pion-photon 183<br />

oscillations (stars) → helioseismology,<br />

stars: variable<br />

P<br />

pair annihilation 99f<br />

paraphoton 82, 92f, 99<br />

Pauli matrices 286<br />

Peccei-Quinn<br />

mechanism 526–28, 532f<br />

scale 166, 526f, 529, 535<br />

peculiar velocity (neutron stars) 443–45<br />

permittivity → dielectric permittivity<br />

ph<strong>as</strong>e velocity 199, 244<br />

photon<br />

baryonic 114<br />

charge limits 555f<br />

decay → pl<strong>as</strong>ma process<br />

leptonic 114–16<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s<br />

→ pl<strong>as</strong>ma frequency<br />

effective 208<br />

vacuum 206, 555f<br />

transverse 209, 214<br />

refraction → photon dispersion<br />

splitting 184<br />

weakly interacting 18<br />

photon dispersion<br />

approximate expressions 213f<br />

external fields (vacuum birefringence)<br />

183–5, 187f, 190f, 554<br />

general theory 203–19<br />

mixing with axions 180f<br />

transverse m<strong>as</strong>s 209, 214<br />

photoproduction<br />

→ Compton process<br />

X-particles in HB stars 82, 429<br />

pinching of neutrino spectra 410f<br />

pion<br />

→ one-pion exchange potential<br />

Compton scattering 157<br />

condensate 59, 155–57, 243<br />

coupling to nucleons 119, 151f, 531<br />

pion (cont’d)<br />

decay 162, 167f, 256<br />

decay constant 166f, 527<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s 119, 124f, 527<br />

mixing with axion 527f, 534<br />

Nambu-Goldstone boson 165f<br />

Planck m<strong>as</strong>s: definition 6<br />

Planck’s constant 580<br />

planetary nebulae 36, 43, 51<br />

pl<strong>as</strong>ma<br />

conditions in stars 591–99<br />

coupling parameter Γ 224, 597–99<br />

crystallization 46, 598<br />

fluctuations 172–74<br />

frequency 198, 211f, 596, 599<br />

one-component 223–25<br />

strongly coupled 223f<br />

two-component 223<br />

pl<strong>as</strong>ma process<br />

→ neutrino dipole moments<br />

<strong>as</strong>trophysical impact<br />

HB star lifetime 80–82<br />

neutron-star crust 59f<br />

red-giant core m<strong>as</strong>s 83–87<br />

supernova core 523<br />

general theory 227–36<br />

gluonic 159<br />

pl<strong>as</strong>mino 195<br />

pl<strong>as</strong>mon<br />

coalescence 170–72<br />

e + e − decay 195, 211<br />

longitudinal 170–72, 195, 202f, 213<br />

νν decay → pl<strong>as</strong>ma process<br />

p-mode → helioseismology<br />

Poincaré sphere representation 286<br />

polarimetry of radio sources 190f<br />

polarization tensor 205–12, 230f, 238<br />

polarization vector<br />

neutrino flavor<br />

definition 286f<br />

degree of coherence 313<br />

individual modes 317<br />

shrinking by collisions 314f<br />

transverse 314, 325<br />

pl<strong>as</strong>ma excitations 206f<br />

positron flux: interplanetary 461, 487f<br />

pp-chain 15, 341, 346f<br />

pressure sources in stars 7–10

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