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Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics - MPP Theory Group

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Subject Index 663<br />

supernova core<br />

binding energy 407<br />

characteristics of the medium 398,<br />

505f, 512, 602–5<br />

matter accretion 397, 400, 425f, 503<br />

neutrino cooling<br />

→ SN 1987A<br />

analytic emission models<br />

expected detector signal 418<br />

schematic picture 397, 400, 407f<br />

spectral characteristics 408–11<br />

time evolution 411–14<br />

neutrino flavor conversion 332–38<br />

particle cooling<br />

axion emission 501–4, 508–12<br />

general argument 501–8<br />

numerical studies 508–11, 513–16<br />

structure (numerical model) 505f, 512<br />

supernova: type II<br />

→ supernova core<br />

description 37–39<br />

explosion mechanism 401–5, 436f, 522<br />

neutrino oscillations<br />

cooling ph<strong>as</strong>e 434–36<br />

explosion mechanism 436f<br />

overview 430f<br />

prompt burst 432–34<br />

r-process nucleosynthesis 437–42<br />

nucleosynthesis 405–6, 437–42<br />

stellar collapse 395–99<br />

supersymmetric particles<br />

dark matter xv–xvi, 22, 558<br />

emission from stars 81, 557f<br />

supersymmetry: flavor-changing neutral<br />

current 303<br />

SXT satellite 186<br />

T<br />

tau neutrino<br />

charge 567<br />

dipole moment 278, 455, 457, 476f<br />

e + e − decay: bounds<br />

galactic supernovae 484–86<br />

reactors 455, 457<br />

SN 1987A γ-rays 480–82<br />

solar positrons 457, 461<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s 256, 258–60, 485f<br />

theoretical decay rate 264<br />

thermal broadening of beryllium line<br />

350f<br />

thermal equilibrium in stars 8<br />

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

transition moment → neutrino dipole<br />

moments<br />

transverse current 204, 219f<br />

transverse gauge 204<br />

transverse part of the flavor<br />

polarization vector 314, 325<br />

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

triangle condition 153f<br />

triangle loop 167f, 530, 536<br />

triangle: MSW 301–3, 386, 434<br />

triple-α reaction 33, 80<br />

tritium β decay 255<br />

twisting magnetic field 308f<br />

two-photon coupling<br />

neutrinos 245, 265f, 271f<br />

various bosons 165–68<br />

U, V<br />

units<br />

conversion factors 580–82<br />

natural 6<br />

rationalized 184, 580<br />

URCA process 1, 58f, 152–54<br />

vacuum birefringence 183–5, 187f, 190f,<br />

554<br />

vector bosons<br />

Compton process 91–93, 98<br />

energy-loss bounds 82, 99, 110–12<br />

long-range <strong>for</strong>ce 112–16, 500<br />

virial theorem<br />

introduction 6f<br />

negative specific heat 7f<br />

VVO effect 387<br />

W<br />

weak damping limit (of neutrino<br />

oscillations) 326f, 330f<br />

weak decay spectrum 348<br />

weak mixing angle 583<br />

Weinberg angle 583

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