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Big-bang nucleosynthesis with a long-lived charged massive particle including $^4$He spallation processes

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-08 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We propose helium-4 spallation processes induced by long-lived stau in supersymmetric standard models, and investigate an impact of the processes on light elements abundances. We show that, as long as the phase space of helium-4 spallation processes is open, they are more important than stau-catalyzed fusion and hence constrain the stau property.

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@article{arxiv.1105.1431,
  title  = {Big-bang nucleosynthesis with a long-lived charged massive particle including $^4$He spallation processes},
  author = {Toshifumi Jittoh and Kazunori Kohri and Masafumi Koike and Joe Sato and Kenichi Sugai and Masato Yamanaka and Koichi Yazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1431},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, references added, all figures corrected