Primordial Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Abstract
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is the theory of the production of the the light element isotopes of D, He3, He4, and Li7. After a brief review of the essential elements of the standard Big Bang model at a temperature of about 1 MeV, the theoretical input and predictions of BBN are discussed. The theory is tested by the observational determinations of the light element abundances and the current status of these observations is reviewed. Concordance of standard model and the related observations is found over a limited range of the baryon-to-photon ratio, the single true parameter of the standard model. Implications of BBN on chemical evolution, dark matter and constraints on particle properties will be also discussed.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9901231,
title = {Primordial Big Bang Nucleosynthesis},
author = {Keith A. Olive},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9901231},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
44 pages, latex, 26 ps figures, Summary of lectures given at the Advanced School on Cosmology and Particle Physics, Peniscola, Spain, June 1998 and at the Theoretical and Observational Cosmology Summer School, Cargese, Corsica, France, August 1998