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We consider the implications of the modified dispersion relations, due to the noncommutativity of the spacetime, for a photon gas filling the early Universe in the framework of the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) processes, during the period…

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The major problem in the cosmological nucleosynthesis is the evaluation of the reaction rate. The present scenario is that the standard thermonuclear function in the Maxwell-Boltzmann form is evaluated by using various techniques. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Kumar , H. J. Haubold

In this paper we consider the effects on big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) of the hadronic decay of a long-lived massive particle. If high-energy hadrons are emitted near the BBN epoch ($t \sim 10^{-2}$ -- $10^2 \sec$), they extraordinarily…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. Kohri

We study the big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) with the long-lived exotic particle, called X. If the lifetime of X is longer than \sim 0.1 sec, its decay may cause non-thermal nuclear reactions during or after the BBN, altering the predictions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Takeo Moroi

We consider the effect of inhomogeneous neutrino degeneracy on Big Bang nucleosynthesis for the case where the distribution of neutrino chemical potentials is given by a Gaussian. The chemical potential fluctuations are taken to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Spencer D. Stirling , Robert J. Scherrer

We propose a correction of the standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) scenario to resolve the primordial lithium problem by considering a possibility that the primordial plasma can deviate from the ideal state. In the standard BBN, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Dukjae Jang , Youngshin Kwon , Kyujin Kwak , Myung-Ki Cheoun

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is studied within the framework of a two-parameter family of tensor-scalar theories of gravitation, with nonlinear scalar-matter coupling function a(phi). We run a BBN code modified by tensor-scalar gravity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Thibault Damour , Bernard Pichon

We have applied the non-extensive statistical mechanics to free electrons in several metals to calculate the electronic specific heat at low temperature. In this case, the Fermi-Dirac (FD) function is modified from its Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-09 Arvind Khuntia , Gayatri Sahu , Raghunath Sahoo , Durga P. Mahapatra , Niranjan Barik

We present a study of inhomogeneous big bang nucleosynthesis with emphasis on transport phenomena. We combine a hydrodynamic treatment to a nuclear reaction network and compute the light element abundances for a range of inhomogeneity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Elina Keihanen

We perform the first quantitative study of the sensitivity of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis to variations in isospin breaking with precise input from lattice QCD calculations. The predicted light nuclear abundances are most sensitive to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-16 Matthew Heffernan , Projjwal Banerjee , Andre Walker-Loud

The dynamics of QCD matter is often described using effective mean field (MF) models based on Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) extensive statistics. However, such matter is normally produced in small packets and in violent collisions where the usual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-22 Jacek Rożynek , Grzegorz Wilk

We use the R-matrix theory to fit low-energy data on nuclear reactions involved in Big Bang nucleosynthesis. A special attention is paid to the rate uncertainties which are evaluated on statistical grounds. We provide S factors and reaction…

We investigate the effect on the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) from the presence of a stochastic primordial magnetic field (PMF) whose strength is spatially inhomogeneous. We assume a uniform total energy density and a gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Yudong Luo , Toshitaka Kajino , Motohiko Kusakabe , Grant J. Mathews

We compute the big bang nucleosynthesis limit on the number of light neutrino degrees of freedom in a model-independent likelihood analysis based on the abundances of He4 and Li7. We use the two-dimensional likelihood functions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Keith A. Olive , David Thomas

In many situations, in all branches of physics, one encounters power-like behavior of some variables which are best described by a Tsallis distribution characterized by a nonextensivity parameter $q$ and scale parameter $T$. However, there…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-16 Grzegorz Wilk , Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

We examine the constraints imposed by the requirement of successful big bang nucleosynthesis on models with one large extra dimension and a single bulk neutrino. We solve the Boltzman kinetic equations for the thermal distribution of bulk…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 H. S. Goh , R. N. Mohapatra

The predictions of Standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis are summarized and compared with observations of abundances of helium in HII regions, deuterium in quasar absorbers, deuterium and helium-3 in the Galaxy, and lithium in metal-poor stars.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig J. Hogan

The nuclear modification factor is derived using Tsallis non-extensive statistics in relaxation time approximation. The variation of nuclear modification factor with transverse momentum for different values of non-extensive parameter, $q$,…

The Tsallis entropy, which is a generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy, plays a central role in nonextensive statistical mechanics of complex systems. A lot of efforts have recently been made on establishing a dynamical foundation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sumiyoshi Abe , Yutaka Nakada

In big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), the light matter abundance is dictated by the neutron-to-proton ($n/p$) ratio which is controlled by the standard weak processes in the early universe. Here, we study the effect of an extra particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-24 Deep Ghosh