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Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) offers one of the most strict evidences for the Lambda-CDM cosmology at present, as well as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. In this work, our main aim is to present the outcomes of our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-10 Sibel Boran , Emre Onur Kahya

We extend a recently developed Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) code, {\tt PRyMordial}, to constrain a broad class of Grand Unified Theories to which BBN is sensitive, since these lead to varying fundamental couplings. A previously developed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 I. M. Dreyer , C. J. A. P. Martins

A large set of independent astronomical observations have provided a strong evidence for nonbaryonic dark matter in the Universe. One of the most investigated candidates is an unknown long-lived Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-04 I. Baranov , J. A. S. Lima

Big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) describes the production of the lightest nuclides via a dynamic interplay among the four fundamental forces during the first seconds of cosmic time. We briefly overview the essentials of this physics, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Richard H. Cyburt , Brian D. Fields , Keith A. Olive , Tsung-Han Yeh

I present a review of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, concentrating on the statistical analysis of theoretical uncertainties, and on systematic errors in observed abundances. Both have important implications for constraints on the amount of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Lawrence M. Krauss

We extend previous studies of big bang nucleosynthesis, with the assumption that ordinary matter and dark matter sectors are entangled through the number of degrees of freedom entering the Friedmann equations. This conjecture allows us to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-28 C. A. Bertulani , V. Challa , J. J. He , S. Q. Hou , Ravinder Kumar

$f(R)$ gravity is one of the serious alternatives of general relativity having a large range of astronomical consequences. In this work, we study Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) in $f(R)$ gravity theory. We consider modification to gravity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Abhijit Talukdar , Sanjeev Kalita

Multiple astrophysical and cosmological observations show that the majority of the matter in the universe is non-luminous. It is not made of known particles, and it is called dark matter. This is one of the few pieces of concrete…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-01 Oliver Buchmueller , Caterina Doglioni , Lian-Tao Wang

We present the first joint-likelihood analysis of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data. Bayesian inference is performed on the baryon abundance and the effective number of neutrino species, $N_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Cara Giovanetti , Mariangela Lisanti , Hongwan Liu , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Joshua T. Ruderman

Big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), an epoch of primordial nuclear transformations in the expanding Universe, has left an observable imprint in the abundances of light elements. Precision observations of such abundances, combined with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-14 Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

It was recently proposed that weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) may provide new ways of generating the observed baryon asymmetry in the early universe, as well as addressing the cosmic coincidence between dark matter and baryon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Yanou Cui

According to the standard models of particle physics and cosmology, there should be a background of cosmic neutrinos in the present Universe, similar to the cosmic microwave photon background. The weakness of the weak interactions renders…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-27 Gary Steigman

Big-bang nucleosynthesis is one of the cornerstones of the standard cosmology. For almost thirty years its predictions have been used to test the big-bang model to within a fraction of a second of the bang. The concordance that exists…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Craig J Copi , David N. Schramm , Michael S. Turner

We show that Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) significantly constrains axion-like dark matter. The axion acts like an oscillating QCD $\theta$ angle that redshifts in the early universe, increasing the neutron-proton mass difference at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Kfir Blum , Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Mariangela Lisanti , Benjamin R. Safdi

As an important class of quantum gravity models, the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) plays an important role in exploring the properties of cosmology and its related problems. In this paper, we explore the influence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-24 Song-Shan Luo , Zhong-Wen Feng

We derive big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints on both unstable and stable gravitino taking account of recent progresses in theoretical study of the BBN processes as well as observations of primordial light-element abundances. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-28 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Takeo Moroi , Akira Yotsuyanagi

The importance of the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) as a unique tool for studying neutrino properties is discussed, and the recent steps towards a self-consistent and robust handling of the weak reaction decoupling from the thermal bath as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Mangano , P. D. Serpico

The properties of a neutron star are studied in the presence of dark matter. We have considered a relatively light Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) as a dark matter candidate with properties suggested by the results of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Abdul Quddus , Grigorios Panotopoulos , Bharat Kumar , Shakeb Ahmad , S. K. Patra

The Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) model is a cornerstone for the understanding of the evolution of the early universe, making seminal predictions that are in outstanding agreement with the present observation of light element abundances in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Carlos A. Bertulani , Francis W. Hall , Benjamin I. Santoyo

The Weakly Interacting Massive Particles(WIMPs) have long been the favored CDM candidate in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. However, owing to great improvement in the experimental sensitivity in the past decade, some parameter space of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Abineet Parichha , Shiv Sethi