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Semi-Analytical Analysis of Helium Synthesis in Brane Cosmology

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The problem of primordial nucleosynthesis of helium in brane cosmology is studied using a semi-analytical method, where the Fermi-Dirac statistic is ignored. This semi-analytical method agrees with a more complete numerical calculation with a precision of order of 10% or better. The quadratic term for the matter density is the only source considered in the modified Einstein equations predicted by the brane configuration. This hypothesis is justified a posteriori. An agreement between theoretical and observational values for the helium abundance is obtained if the fundamental mass scale in five dimensions is of the order of M5×103GeVM \sim 5\times10^3 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0306051,
  title  = {Semi-Analytical Analysis of Helium Synthesis in Brane Cosmology},
  author = {J. C. Fabris and J. A. O. Marinho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0306051},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Latex file, 13 pages, 1 figure and 1 table