Astroparticle Physics

Index 431– gravitational binding, 273– heavy, 275– high-energy, 82, 95, 105,166, 168– in rock, 154– interaction, 218– – with air, 51– – with electron, 27– – with neutron, 27– – with nucleon, 51, 89– lifetime, 16, 103– light, relativistic, 283– magnetic moment, 97– mass, 16, 23, 97, 102, 272,275, 294– – density, 274– – muon, 274– – non-zero, 17– – tau, 274– mass limit– – cosmological, 273, 274– – direct, 272– – fourth generation, 275– – lower, 273– – lower, galactic, 274– – tau, 273– massive, 17– mixing, see neutrino,oscillation– muon, 88–90, 150– number, 272– – density, 215, 216, 218, 274– – density, primordial, 272– oscillation, 13, 17, 24, 90,272, 274, 293, 294, 323– – in matter, 97– – mixing matrix, 91– – vacuum, 323– postulate, 8– range, 58– reaction, scattering, seeneutrino interaction– solar, 1,94, 95, 96, 104– – puzzle, 96– spectrum, 107– sterile, 99– supernova, 100, 104– tau, 92– telescope, 88, 106, 107– temperature, 196, 219neutron, 21, 213, 323– anti-, 215– attachment, 66– Big Bang, 104– composition, see neutron,quark content– decay, 27, 28, 217, 218, 219,323– dipole moment, 279– discovery, 8– evaporation, 323– freeze-out temperature, seefreeze-out temperature– interaction, 213, 216– – with neutrino, 27– isospin, 29– lifetime, 217, 220, 221, 288– number, 215– – density, 216, see alsofreeze-out temperature– primary, 145– quark content, 25, 288– reaction, see neutroninteraction– star, 8, 69, 110, 269, 323– – formation, 66, 100–– γ burst, 122– – in binary, 71– – rotating, see pulsar– – X-ray source, 130– -to-proton ratio, 213, 216,218, 220, 222, 226, see alsofreeze-out temperature– – temperature dependence,220new inflation, 255, 256Newton observatory, see XMMNewtonian gravity, 178nitrogen fluorescence, 159Niu, K., 14‘no hair’ theorem, 323non-baryonic (dark) matter,266, 281non-luminous– matter, 269, 283– object, 270non-relativistic matter, 200non-zero baryon number, 207northern light, 2, 301nova, 323nuclear– binding energy, 323– fission, 312, 323– fusion, 323, see also fusion– interaction, 54– – cross section, 49, 213– reaction rate, 213, 222, 231nucleon, 21, 214, see alsoproton and neutron– at sea level, 149– density, 214– – BBN phase, 231– interaction with neutrino,51, 89– mass, 214, 221– number, 221, 225– primary, 145– -to-photon ratio, 220nucleosynthesis, 120, 222, 288– Big Bang, see Big Bangnucleosynthesis– deuterium, 218– helium-4 ( 4 He), 220– of light nuclei, 220– primordial, see Big Bangnucleosynthesis– stellar, 222nucleus, 50, 165– active galactic, see activegalactic nuclei– anti-, see antinuclei– β decay, 27– electromagnetic interaction,50– even–even and even–odd, 79– events of highest energy, 163– formation, 77, 120– galactic, 267– γ decay, 112– light, see light nuclei– magic, 79– measurement, 50– odd–even and odd–odd, 79