In a recent Letter entitled "Measurement of d + 7Be Cross Sections for Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis", Rijal et al. describe the results of an experiment that put the d + 7Be reaction rate on firmer ground. The erratum of Rijal et al. claims that including this reaction rate in big bang nucleosynthesis brings a significant reduction of up to 8.1% of lithium production relative to calculations that exclude this reaction. In contrast, using several well tested BBN codes, we confirm earlier studies showing that the effect is less than 1%, so that this measurement cannot alleviate the cosmological lithium problem.
@article{arxiv.1912.03933,
title = {Comment on "Measurement of d + 7Be Cross Sections for Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis"},
author = {Alain Coc and Barry Davids},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.03933},
year = {2019}
}