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616 Index<br />

Pionic atom, 243<br />

Planck length, 460<br />

Planck mass, 458<br />

Planck time, 580<br />

Plasma, 581, 586, 608<br />

quark-gluon, see Quark-gluon plasma<br />

PMNS matrix, see Neutrino, mixing matrix<br />

Poisson-like distributions<br />

at high energies, 447<br />

Polarization, 96, 97<br />

of CMBR, 582<br />

Pomeranchuk theorem, 448<br />

Positron, 108–112, 303, 305, 308, 311, 317,<br />

454, 483, 597, 599<br />

Positronium, 104, 483, 493<br />

Potential<br />

Coulomb, see Coulomb<br />

deformed, 535, 554<br />

in q.m., see Aharonov–Bohm<br />

Mexican hat, 396<br />

optical, 541<br />

Power spectrum<br />

of CMBR, 583<br />

pp cycle<br />

and solar energy, 587<br />

Profile function, 180–184<br />

Prolate, 436, 437, 545, 576<br />

Proton, 7, 9, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 26, 29–31,<br />

35, 50, 64, 79, 102, 106–108, 122,<br />

123, 133, 545–547, 557, 562, 581,<br />

587, 591<br />

Anti-, 33, 112<br />

capture, 585, 591<br />

cosmic ray, 597<br />

energy loss of, 42<br />

excited state, 124<br />

lifetime, 208, 458<br />

linac, 21<br />

magnetic moment, 153, 155, 192<br />

parity, 243, 244<br />

quark content, 114<br />

size, 78<br />

see Form factor, 140<br />

Proton drip<br />

line, 504<br />

Pseudoscalar, 244, 250, 425, 430, 443–445,<br />

473, 476, 482, 483, 497, 499<br />

Psi, see J/ψ<br />

Pulsar, 596, 601<br />

QCD, 421, 451–456<br />

low energy, 456–458<br />

on the lattice, 456–458<br />

quark models, 483–490<br />

quenched calculations, 457<br />

QED, 453<br />

Quadrupole moment, 544<br />

intrinsic, 550<br />

observed, 550<br />

reduced, 545<br />

Quantum Chromodynamics, see QCD<br />

Quark, 78, 166, 472<br />

basic properties, 112–118<br />

Bottom, 216<br />

bound states, mesons, 475–478<br />

charm, 215<br />

composition of mesons and baryons,<br />

116, 471–499<br />

confinement, 422<br />

constituent, 475, 476, 478, 480, 482,<br />

490, 494, 496<br />

current, 490, 494<br />

momentum distributions, 168<br />

Strange, see Strange quark<br />

Top, see Top quark<br />

Quark model, 471–499<br />

Quark-gluon plasma, 511<br />

Quark-parton model, 166–172<br />

Quartets, 235<br />

Quasi-elastic peak, 161<br />

Quintets, 235<br />

R-process nucleosynthesis, 591<br />

Radiation in matter, 39<br />

charged particles, 41–45<br />

electrons, 46–49<br />

nuclear interactions, 49<br />

photons, 45<br />

Radiation length, 48<br />

Radiation region, 47<br />

Radioactive<br />

beams, 537<br />

isotopes accelerators, 537<br />

Radioactivity, 1<br />

beta decay, see Beta decay<br />

Radius<br />

half density, 144<br />

kaon, 160<br />

mean square, 142, 159<br />

nuclear, 142<br />

nucleon, 154<br />

pion, 160<br />

root-mean-square, 144<br />

Range, 1, 9, 40, 41, 44, 45, 49, 91, 434<br />

extrapolated, 42, 46<br />

straggling, 40<br />

strong force, 104, 105, 132, 422, 434,<br />

438, 439, 442, 444, 445, 463, 467,<br />

475, 484, 488, 493, 496<br />

Rare Isotope Accelerator, 21, 537<br />

Redshifts, 579<br />

Reduced wavelength, 95<br />

Regeneration<br />

in oscillations, 267<br />

Regge<br />

phenomenology, 496

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