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Testing Standard and Degenerate Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with BOOMERanG and MAXIMA-1

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We test different Big Bang Nucleosynthesis scenarios using the recent results on the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies provided by the BOOMERanG and MAXIMA-1 experiments versus the observed abundances of 4He, D and 7Li. The likelihood analysis, based on Bayesian approach, shows that, in the case of high deuterium abundance, Y_D=(2.0\pm0.5) 10^{-4}, both standard and degenerate BBN are inconsistent with the CMBR measurement at more than 3 \sigma. Assuming low deuterium abundance, Y_D=(3.4\pm0.3) 10^{-5}, the standard BBN model is still inconsistent with present observations at 2 \sigma level, while the degenerate BBN results to be compatible. Unless systematics effects will be found in nuclide abundances and/or in CMBR data analysis this result may be a signal in favour of new physics like a large chemical potential of the relic neutrino-antineutrino background.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0007419,
  title  = {Testing Standard and Degenerate Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with BOOMERanG and MAXIMA-1},
  author = {S. Esposito and G. Mangano and A. Melchiorri and G. Miele and O. Pisanti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0007419},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, RevTeX, 2 figures .eps. Some typos corrected, figure 1 improved