Elementary Processes in Dense Plasmas: (Frontiers in Physics)

Dense plasmas include those found in the interiors, surfaces, and outer envelopes of such astronomical objects as neutron stars, white dwarfs, the sun, dwarf stars, and planets, as well as those in metals and alloys, in semiconductors, and in various realizations of compressed matter in laboratories. Among the elementary processes of interest are those related to atomic transitions, electronic conduction, radiative transfer, energy generation, and dissipation, as well as the nuclear and neutrino processes. The rates of these processes depend sensitively on a change in plasma states, such as freezing transition, chemical separation, supercritical fluids, ionization or insulator-to-metal transition, and magnetic transitions. This conference volume consists of state-of-the-art reviews on those subjects contributed by the leading scientists who participated in the Oji Seminar Elementary Processes in Dense Plasmas.

Table of Contents:
Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs, and Supernovae; The Quark-Gluon Plasma (G. Baym); Hot Neurton Stars at Birth: A Realistic Treatment (T. Takatsuka); Global Oscillations of Neutron Stars As Potential Probes of Microscopic Physics at Ultrahigh Densities (H.M. Van Horn, U. Lee, R.I. Epstein, and T.J.B. Collins); Explosion mechanism of collapse-driven supernovae (K. Sato, T. Shimizu, and S. Yamada); Role of Magnetized Plasmas in Production of Cosmic X-Rays (K. Makishima); Intense Magnetic Field Phenomena (J. Weisheit); Neutrino Astrophysics; Neutrinos in Cosmology and Astrophysics: An Introductory Overview of Theoretical Aspects (M. Fukugita); Neutrino Emission from Protoneutron Stars (H. Suzuki and K. Sumiyoshi); Solar Neutrinos (Y. Suzuki); Neutrino Emission Processes in Stars (N. Itoh); Nuclear Processes; Nuclear Reactions in Dense Matter (S. Ichimaru and H. Kitamura); Experimental Approach to Nucleosynthesis in the Universe (S. Kubono); Cosmological Phase Transition and Nucleosynthesis (T. Kajino); Atomic and Optical Processes in Stellar Matter; Equation of State, Metallization, and Energy Transitions of Dense PLasmas (S. Ogata, H. Kitamura, and S. Ichimaru); Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Phase Transitions of Dense Plasmas (W. Ebeling and A. Frster); New Astrophysical Opacities and Their Effect of Stellar Models (F.J. Rogers and C.A. Iglesias); Atmospheric Structure of Very Low Mass Stars: M Dwarfs, Subdwarfs, and Brown Dwarfs (T. Tsuji and K. Ohnaka); Helioseismology; Helioseismology and Solar Models (H. Shibahashi); Equation-of-State Issues in Helioseismology (W. Dppen); Planetary Sciences; CurrentUncertainties in the Interior Physics of Brown Dwarfs and Giant Plantets (W.B. Hubbard, A. Burrows, J.I. Lunine, and D. Saumon); Constitution and Evolution of the Earth (E. Ito); High-Pressure Metal Physics; The Dense-Hydrogen Plasma: Tranlational, Orientational, and Electronic Structure (N.W. Ashcroft); Progress on Hydrogen at Ultrahigh Pressures (R.J. Hemley and H.-k. Mao); The Potential of High-Power Beams for Studying Megabar Matter, Including Low-Entropy Hydrogen Compression (J. Meyer-ter-Vehn and A. Oparin); Co.