Astroparticle Physics

Index 419CMB, see cosmic microwavebackgroundCOBE satellite, 12, 232,235–238, 266, 283, 306cold dark matter, 278, 279,282, 283, 306cold gas clouds, 269cold particle, 282collapse, gravitational, 66, 69,70, 314collider, 306collision, see scatteringcollisions, Hoffmann, 6colour, 25, 26, 306– charge, 306– -neutral hadrons, 205column density, atmosphere,142comet tail, 10compactification, 306COMPTEL, 306Compton– effect, 56, 306– Gamma-Ray Observatory,see CGRO– scattering, 113– – inverse, 111, 125, 317– telescope, 57Compton, A. H., 7, 111confidence interval, 385confinement, 30, 306conservation– law, particle physics, 30– of baryon number, 215, 216– of charge, 305– of energy, 178– of entropy, 219– of helicity, 28, 42– of mass, 280conserved quantity, 307, 394constant, dynamical, 281constellation, 307constraint, 394contraction, Lorentz, 319contrast, density, 261conversion electron, 307coordinates– equatorial, 401– galactic, 401, 402– spherical, 235Copernicus, N., 266corona, 307COS-B, 307cosmic abundance, 307cosmic accelerator, 294cosmic antimatter, 295Cosmic Background Explorer,see COBEcosmic background radiation,307, see cosmic microwavebackground and blackbodyradiationcosmic mass density, 269cosmic microwave background,172, 205, 229, 245,295– angular power spectrum,236, 238, 239, 242, 243,385, 388– anisotropy, 235, 241– blueshift, 237– discovery, 231– formation, 233– measurement, 232– – angular resolution, 238– prediction and observation,232– properties, 231– redshift, 237– spectrum, 232– temperature, 225, 233–235– – anisotropy, 238– – isotropy, 259– – measurement, 237, 238– – variations, 225, 261, 284,388cosmic radiation, see cosmicrayscosmic rays, 277, 287, 293,307– acceleration model, 63– ankle of primary spectrum,80, 82– antinuclei, 206– antiparticle, 84– at sea level, 147– chemical composition, 77,78, 84, 163– elemental abundance, 78– energy density, 71– energy spectrum, 73, 74, 79,80– extragalactic, 82– high-energy, 169– highest-energy, 163, 294– intensity, 146– knee of primary spectrum,80, 81, 167– neutrino flux, 104– origin, 85, 104, 110, 167,294– – extragalactic, 118, 132–– γ , point-like, 117– primary, 10, 77, 141, 142,326– – antimatter, 84– – antinuclei, 84– – antiproton, 84, 143– – charged component, 78– – momentum spectrum, 143–– powerlaw,75– – transformation in theatmosphere, 144– primordial, 77– propagation in theatmosphere, 142– secondary, 141, 329– soft component, 144– source, see cosmic rays,origin– toe of primary spectrum, 82– underground, 151cosmic strings, 169, 307cosmic textures, 307cosmoarcheology, 197, 307cosmogony, 307cosmographic map, 238, 307cosmological– constant, 180, 187, 198, 251,279, 280, 283–285, 289,295, 308, 400– limits on neutrino masses,273, 274– neutrinos, 104