Primordial heavy element production
Abstract
A number of possible mechanisms have been suggested to generate density inhomogeneities in the early Universe which could survive until the onset of primordial nucleosynthesis and generate neutron-rich regions. In this work we are not concerned with how the inhomogeneities were generated but we want to focus on the effect of such inhomogeneities on primordial nucleosynthesis. One of the proposed signatures of inhomogeneity, the synthesis of very heavy elements by neutron capture in a primordial r-process, was analyzed for varying baryon to photon ratios and fluctuation length scales .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1504.04459,
title = {Primordial heavy element production},
author = {T. Rauscher and F. -K. Thielemann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04459},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure; talk at the ESO/EIPC Workshop on "Light Element Abundances", Marciana Marina, Isola d'Elba 21-26 May 1994; appeared in the workshop proceedings, uploaded for easy access. in Proceedings of the ESO/EIPC Workshop "The Light Element Abundances", ed. P. Crane (Springer, Berlin Heidelberg 1995), p. 31