Temporal variation of coupling constants and nucleosynthesis
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We investigate the triple-alpha process and the Oklo phenomenon to obtain constraints on possible cosmological time variations of fundamental constants. Specifically we study cosmological temporal constraints for the fine structure constant and nucleon and meson masses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210459,
title = {Temporal variation of coupling constants and nucleosynthesis},
author = {H. Oberhummer and A. Csoto and M. Fairbairn and H. Schlattl and M. M. Sharma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210459},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages. Proceedings of the Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics Conference, Debrecen, Hungary, September 30 - October 3, 2002. To be published in Nuc. Phys. A