Astroparticle Physics

415Index ∗“A document without an index is like a country without a map.”Mike UnwallaAbell 754, 132absolute brightness, 299absolute zero, 299absorption– coefficient, 46– line, neutrino, 275abundance, 299– cosmic, 307– deuterium, 221, 224– helium-4 ( 4 He), 22, 213,221, 222, 224, 227– light nuclei, 214, 222, 224– lithium-7 ( 7 Li), 223–225– measurement, 225– predicted, 224– primordial, 15– – deuterium, 223– – helium-3 ( 3 He), 224– – helium-4 ( 4 He), 22– – light nuclei, 222accelerated expansion, 252,254, 285acceleration– by sunspot pairs, 65– due to gravity, 404– equation, 183, 252, 299, 400– in gravitational potentials,72– mechanism, 63, 68, 312– of particles in binaries, 71– of particles in pulsars, 69,294– of particles in supernovae,67, 167, 294– of protons, 105– parameter, 186, 281, 295,299– shock, 66, 67, 68, 74, 167accelerator, 299– cosmic, 294– data, number of neutrinofamilies, 227– experiments, 293– physics, 293accretion disk, 72, 130, 155,299acoustic peak, 241, 242, 299acoustic-horizon distance, 241active galactic nuclei, 17, 73,110, 118, 131, 132, 168,294, 300active galaxy, 299activity, potassium-40 ( 40 K),106Adams, D., 265additional Higgs field, 210additional neutrino family, 228adiabatic expansion, 182Advanced X-ray AstrophysicsFacility, see AXAFage– of life, 288– of the universe, 299, 404aggregation, gravitational, 266AGN, see active galactic nucleiair scintillation, 53, 116,159–161air shower– Cherenkov technique, 55,79, 114, 116, 119, 300– development, 145– extensive, 9, 10, 79, 154,156, 311– – correlations, 162, 163– – longitudinal development,158– – measurement technique,158, 160, 161– measurement, 159Air Watch, 160, 161ALEPH, 155α– decay, 300– particle, 10, 78Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer,206Alvarez, L. W., 7AMANDA, 88, 107, 300Anderson, C. D., 8, 9Andromeda Nebula, 271, 300angle– azimuthal, 235– Cabibbo, 31– Cherenkov, 55– horizon distance, 241– mixing, 31, 91– polar, 235Ångström, 300angular– (diameter) distance, 240– power spectrum, cosmicmicrowave background, 236,238, 239, 242, 243, 385, 388– resolution, COBE andWMAP, 238– separation, 236∗ Underlined page numbers refer to main entries. Page numbers in italics apply to the glossary.