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Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics - MPP Theory Group

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660 Subject Index<br />

refractive index<br />

→ photon dispersion, neutrino<br />

dispersion<br />

definition 194<br />

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

neutrino 242, 244<br />

relativistic limiting velocity 497f<br />

renormalization: wave function 200,<br />

217–19, 228, 233<br />

repulsion of energy levels 296<br />

resonant oscillations<br />

→ neutrino oscillations<br />

axion-photon 181, 186<br />

RGB (red-giant branch)<br />

brightest star 63f, 68–72<br />

bump 61, 64f<br />

location in color-magnitude diagram<br />

27, 41<br />

ph<strong>as</strong>e transition 37<br />

right-handed<br />

currents 268, 519–20<br />

neutrinos → neutrinos: right-handed<br />

Ring Nebula in Lyra 36<br />

R-method 65, 70, 72, 74–78<br />

ROSAT 56–58<br />

Rosseland average 11, 18f<br />

r-process nucleosynthesis 405–6, 437–42<br />

RR Lyrae stars<br />

absolute brightness 62, 65, 69f, 73f<br />

ages of globular clusters 62<br />

color 62<br />

location in color-magnitude diagram<br />

40f<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s-to-light ratio 77<br />

Rubakov-Callan effect xv<br />

Rydberg atom 178<br />

S<br />

S 17 factor 355–57, 377f, 386<br />

SAGE 343f, 357–59, 362f, 371<br />

Sanduleak −69 202 → 39, 414<br />

scalar field<br />

→ scalar particles, Higgs field<br />

around a neutron star 113<br />

scalar particles<br />

bounds on coupling<br />

electrons 82, 99, 107<br />

nucleons 82, 113<br />

scalar particles (cont’d)<br />

emission from binary pulsar 113<br />

emission processes<br />

bremsstrahlung 103, 124f<br />

Compton 93, 98<br />

long-range <strong>for</strong>ce 112f, 500<br />

photon coupling 166<br />

Sciama’s neutrino 491f<br />

screening effects<br />

background neutrinos 114f<br />

Debye-Hückel scale 220f, 596f, 599<br />

general theory 219–26<br />

in processes<br />

bremsstrahlung 102–6<br />

Primakoff 169<br />

spin-flip scattering 277f<br />

ion contribution 220f, 596f, 599<br />

modification of Coulomb propagator<br />

221f, 226<br />

Thom<strong>as</strong>-Fermi scale 221<br />

secret neutrino interactions 558f, 563<br />

see-saw mechanism 254<br />

self-energy 201, 209<br />

Shapiro time delay 498, 554<br />

shining light through walls 182<br />

shock wave 397, 399–405<br />

Small Magellanic Cloud 446, 556<br />

SMM satellite 465f<br />

SN → supernova<br />

SN 1987A<br />

neutrino pulse<br />

analysis 423–26<br />

anomalies 427–30<br />

me<strong>as</strong>urements 419–23<br />

optical lightcurve 414f<br />

progenitor 39, 414<br />

SN 1987A bounds<br />

antimatter supernova 497<br />

arion-photon conversion 189<br />

axions<br />

direct detection 495<br />

neutrino signal duration 501–4,<br />

508–12<br />

fundamental length scale 500<br />

Lorentz addition of velocities 500f<br />

neutrino<br />

charge 499, 522f<br />

decay 494, 496, 519<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s 426f, 499

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