Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics - MPP Theory Group

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12. Radiative Particle Decays from Distant
Sources
12.1 Preliminaries (449)
12.2 Laboratory Experiments (451)
1. Spectrum of Decay Photons (451) ⋄ 2. Electron Neutrinos from Reactors
(453) ⋄ 3. Heavy Neutrinos from Reactors (455) ⋄ 4. Neutrinos from
a Beam Stop (456)
12.3 Particles from the Sun (458)
1. Electron Neutrinos (458) ⋄ 2. Heavy Neutrino Admixtures (461) ⋄ 3. New
Particles (462)
12.4 Supernova 1987A (462)
1. Decay Photons from Low-Mass Neutrinos (462) ⋄ 2. SMM Observations
(465) ⋄ 3. Radiative Decay Limit: Low-Mass Neutrinos (467) ⋄
4. Decay Photons from High-Mass Neutrinos (469) ⋄ 5. Radiative Decay
Limits: High-Mass Neutrinos (472) ⋄ 6. Summary of ν → ν ′ γ Limits (477)
⋄ 7. Limit on ν τ → ν e e + e − (480) ⋄ 8. Heavy, Sterile Neutrinos (482) ⋄
9. Axions (483) ⋄ 10. Supernova Energetics (483)
12.5 Galactic Supernovae and ν τ → ν e e + e − (484)
1. Bounds on the Positron Flux (484) ⋄ 2. Can the Tau Neutrino Be
Heavy (485)
12.6 Neutrinos from All Stars (486)
12.7 Cosmological Bounds (488)
1. Neutrinos (488) ⋄ 2. Axions (491)
13. What Have We Learned from SN 1987A
13.1 Introduction (493)
13.2 Basic Characteristics of the Neutrino Burst (494)
1. Fluence (494) ⋄ 2. Energy Distribution (495) ⋄ 3. Prompt ν e Burst (496)
⋄ 4. Nonobservation of a γ-Ray Burst (497)
13.3 Dispersion Effects (497)
1. Photons vs. Antineutrinos (497) ⋄ 2. Neutrinos vs. Antineutrinos (498)
⋄ 3. Intrinsic Dispersion of the ν e -Pulse (499)
13.4 Duration of Neutrino Emission (501)
1. A General Argument (501) ⋄ 2. Analytic Criterion in the Free-Streaming
Limit (504) ⋄ 3. Trapping Limit (506)
13.5 Axions (508)
1. Numerical Studies (508) ⋄ 2. Impact of Multiple-Scattering Effects (511)
13.6 How Many Neutrino Flavors (513)