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Download or read book Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics written by Georg G. Raffelt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extended work of its kind, Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics stands at the intersection of two burgeoning fields, astrophysics and particle physics. Georg Raffelt, one of the world's leading researchers in this field, describes what the study of stars reveals about fundamental particle interactions. Raffelt presents the many uses of stellar astrophysics for research in basic particle physics. He focuses primarily on the properties and nongravitational interactions of elementary particles. Numerous graphs and figures complement the text. Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics is a valuable reference for cosmologists, astrophysicists, and particle physicists.