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Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-25 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

A review of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is presented. Observations of deuterium and helium-4 are discussed. Some BBN restrictions on non-standard physics, especially on neutrino properties and time-variation of fundamental constants are given.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0201107,
  title  = {Big Bang Nucleosynthesis},
  author = {A. D. Dolgov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0201107},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Invited Review Talk given at the VII Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2001), Sept. 2001, L.N. Gran Sasso, Italy; 7 pages, 1 figure, latex (two typos corrected)