Primordial Nucleosynthesis
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2017-03-20 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Primordial or big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is now a parameter free theory whose predictions are in good overall agreement with observations. However, the 7Li calculated abundance is significantly higher than the one deduced from spectroscopic observations. Most solutions to this lithium problem involve a source of extra neutrons that inevitably leads to an increase of the deuterium abundance. This seems now to be excluded by recent deuterium observations that have drastically reduced the uncertainty on D/H and also calls for improved precision on thermonuclear reaction rates.
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@article{arxiv.1609.06048,
title = {Primordial Nucleosynthesis},
author = {Alain Coc},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.06048},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Invited review at the 14th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos XIV (Niigata)