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Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics - MPP Theory Group

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Subject Index 659<br />

Primakoff process 116, 159, 168–75,<br />

177, 357<br />

prompt<br />

explosion mechanism 399, 401f<br />

neutrino burst 397, 399f, 432–34,<br />

496f, 498<br />

proton<br />

decay xvii<br />

fraction in nuclear matter 601f<br />

spin 537, 584<br />

protoneutron star → supernova core<br />

pseudomomentum 200<br />

pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons 166<br />

pseudoscalar bosons<br />

→ arions, axions, majorons<br />

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

HB star lifetime 80–82, 98f, 176,<br />

191f<br />

neutron-star cooling 59<br />

red-giant core m<strong>as</strong>s 85f, 107-9<br />

SN 1987A 501–4, 508–12<br />

Sun 16f, 20f, 176, 191f<br />

white-dwarf cooling 50–52<br />

ZZ Ceti period decre<strong>as</strong>e 54<br />

bounds on couplings to<br />

photons 17, 81f, 176, 191f<br />

electrons 20f, 51f, 82, 85, 99f,<br />

107–11<br />

nucleons 512<br />

conversion to photons 179–82, 185f,<br />

188–90<br />

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

emission processes<br />

bremsstrahlung (electronic) 102–5,<br />

107f<br />

bremsstrahlung (nucleonic) 119–26,<br />

143–45, 148f, 155f<br />

bremsstrahlung (quarks) 157f<br />

Compton 20, 94, 98, 108f<br />

energy spectrum 123, 175<br />

pair annihilation 99f<br />

Primakoff (gluonic) 159<br />

Primakoff (photonic) 168–75, 177<br />

interaction Hamiltonian 119<br />

long-range <strong>for</strong>ce 112<br />

opacity contribution 18f, 21, 131f,<br />

506–8<br />

refractive index 250<br />

solar direct search 100, 181, 191f<br />

PSR 0655+64 → 547<br />

PSR 1913+16 (Hulse-Taylor binary<br />

pulsar) xiv, 113, 116, 547<br />

PSR 1937+21 → 188, 190, 554<br />

pulsar<br />

→ neutron star<br />

pulse dispersion 554f<br />

pulsation<br />

constant 40<br />

periods 40f<br />

period decre<strong>as</strong>e 53f<br />

PVLAS experiment 185, 192<br />

Q<br />

QCD: CP problem 524–26<br />

Q-nuclei (quarked nuclei) 557<br />

quark<br />

free 556f<br />

matter xv, 157–59, 557<br />

m<strong>as</strong>ses 252, 525<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s ratios 535<br />

mixing 261f<br />

quantum gravity 532f<br />

R<br />

radiative energy transfer → energy<br />

transfer, opacity<br />

random media: particle oscillations 181,<br />

442f<br />

rank-ordering statistics 374f<br />

reactor: nuclear<br />

natural 546<br />

neutrino radiative decay limits 454f<br />

neutrino spectrum 450, 453f, 455<br />

red-giant<br />

branch → RGB<br />

core m<strong>as</strong>s at helium ignition<br />

incre<strong>as</strong>e by particle emission 83–87<br />

observational 75–79<br />

theoretical 67f<br />

uncertainties 78f<br />

core rotation 78<br />

properties and evolution 28–32, 592,<br />

599<br />

reduced opacity 19, 131

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