Astroparticle Physics

Index 421– proton flux, 141departure from thermalequilibrium, 202, 210depth–intensity relation, 152,153detection– of electrons, 114– of neutrinos, 49, 51, 56, 106,107– of particles, 49,51– of photons, 50, 56, 128– of radiation, 49– of WIMPS, 277– of X rays, 56, 126, 127, 128detector– characteristic features, 60– Cherenkov, see Cherenkovdetector– cryogenic, 58– crystal,see crystal detector– neutrino, 277– particle, see particle detector– sampling, 159– semiconductor, seesemiconductor detector– semiconductor pixel, seesemiconductor pixel detector– silicon semiconductor,see silicon semiconductordetector– (water) Cherenkov, see(water) Cherenkov detectordeuterium, 94, 213, 220, 222,309– abundance, 221, 224– – primordial, 223– binding energy, 220– fraction, 224– fusion, 231– Lyman-α line, 224– production, 219–221, 223,288– stability, 288– synthesis, 218– -to-hydrogen ratio, 224development of life, 287deviation, standard, 384differential cross section, 47differential equations, 386differential gravitation, 310dilution– of matter density, 280– of monopoles, 260dimension– extended, 311–extra,32– number, 289dipole– anisotropy, 235, 236, 310– – vanishing, 237– moment, neutron, 279– term, 236Dirac, Fermi–, distribution, seeFermi–Dirac distributionDirac, P. A. M., 8directionality, in neutrinodetection, 96disk, 310– accretion, 72, 130, 155, 299– galactic, 118, 267, 271distance– angular (diameter), 240– from the Sun, 402– horizon, 234, 241, 242– – acoustic, 241– Hubble, 259, 404– ladder, 310– luminosity, 173, 187, 320– of decoupling, 235– proper, 240distortions of images, 272distribution– binomial, 383– Bose–Einstein, 195, 304,389, 393– equilibrium, 390, 392, 399– Fermi–Dirac, 195, 312, 389,393– Gaussian, 384– Landau, 53, 384– momentum, 390, 391, 396– of microstates, 390– Planck, 59, 325– Poisson, 384– probability, 383– thermal, of velocities, 202– zenith-angle, muon, 148,153, 154D meson, decay and lifetime,149domain wall, 169, 310DONUT experiment, 13Doppler effect, 310, see alsoblueshift and redshiftdouble– image, 5, 270– pulsar, 310– ratio, 89– star,see binarydoublet (isospin), 29down quark, 27, 310d quark, see down quarkdust, galactic, 269dwarf– brown, 270, 304– star, 269– white, 6, 130, 335dynamical constant, 281dynamics– of galactic clusters, 269, 283– of galaxies, 17, 269, 272,281, 283– of the universe, 131, 266Earl, J. A., 11early universe, see universe,earlyEAS, see air shower, extensiveeast–west effect, 7, 310ecliptic, 401Eddington, A. S., 5effect– Casimir, 181, 189, 304– Cherenkov, 55, 89, 306– Compton, 56, 306– density, 53– Doppler, 310, see alsoblueshift and redshift– east–west, 7, 310– latitude, 6, 318– micro-gravitational-lens, seemicrolensing– MSW, 98, 322– photoelectric, 49, 56, 113,128, 325