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Nucleosynthesis constraints on massive, stable, strongly interacting particles

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v4 Astrophysics

Abstract

We find constraints on heavy, stable, strongly interacting massive particles (X) from searches for anomalous nuclei containing them, formed during primordial nucleosynthesis. Using existing data, we obtain a limit on the abundance ratio CXnX/nBC_X\equiv n_X/n_B in the range of 3×1083\times 10^{-8} to 3×10133\times 10^{-13} for masses up to 10 TeV if the XNX-N interaction is sufficiently strong to bind in low Z nuclei. We also find a rough lower limit on the XNX-N interaction that implies binding in nuclei with A200A\geq 200 over much of the MXM_X range of interest, and address the relative abundance of such anomalous nuclei on Earth.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9804420,
  title  = {Nucleosynthesis constraints on massive, stable, strongly interacting particles},
  author = {Rabindra N. Mohapatra and Vigdor L. Teplitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9804420},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages; Final version; to appear in Phys. Rev. Letters