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The high densities in the early Universe provide a unique laboratory to constrain couplings between feebly interacting particles, such as dark matter and neutrinos. In this article, we study how Big Bang Nucleosynthesis can constrain models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Toni Bertólez-Martínez , Justo López-Sarrión , Jordi Salvado

We study the Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in a plasma, where we include the cases of both transverse photons and plasmons. We consider four-wave mixing processes of photon and plasmon modes in a relativistic isotropic plasma to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-28 J. T. Mendonça , H. Terças

We examine the possibility of the decay of the vacuum energy into cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons. It is shown that observations of the primordial density fluctuation spectrum put strong limits on the possible decay rate. When…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Reuven Opher , Ana Pelinson

A comparison of the inclusive photon energy spectrum in the radiative decay $\BGAMAXS$, measured recently by the CLEO collaboration, with the standard model is presented, using a $B$-meson wave function model and improving earlier…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-05 A. Ali , C. Greub

The injections of energetic hadrons could have occurred in the early universe by decays of hypothetical long-lived exotic particles. The injections induce the showers of nonthermal hadrons via nuclear scattering. Neutrons generated at these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-13 Motohiko Kusakabe , Myung-Ki Cheoun , K. S. Kim

The decays of massive gravitinos into neutralino dark matter particles and Standard Model secondaries during or after Big-Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) may alter the primordial light-element abundances. We present here details of a new suite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-08 Richard H. Cyburt , John Ellis , Brian D. Fields , Feng Luo , Keith A. Olive , Vassilis C. Spanos

A new upper limit on the amplitude of primordial magnetic field (PMF) is derived by a comparison between a calculation of elemental abundances in big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) model and the latest observational constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-21 Masahiro Kawasaki , Motohiko Kusakabe

Following a brief introduction to early Universe cosmology, the current of status of big bang nucleosynthesis is reviewed and the concordance between theory and observation is examined in detail. The abundances of He4 and Li7 determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Keith A. Olive

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

Nonclassical light sources, such as correlated photon-pairs, play an important role in quantum optics and quantum information processing systems. This study proposes a process to generate antibunched photon-pairs in a nondegenerate optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Yi Ren , Shouhui Duan , Wenzhi Xie , Yongkang Shao , Zhenglu Duan

The successful prediction of light element abundances from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis has been a pillar of the standard model of Cosmology. Because many of the relevant reaction rates are sensitive to the values of fundamental constants, such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Baojiu Li , Ming-Chung Chu

Nonclassical photon sources of high brightness are key components of quantum communication technologies. We here demonstrate the generation of narrowband, nonclassical photon pairs by employing spontaneous four-wave mixing in an…

We study the cosmological constraints on unparticle interactions and the temperature of the Universe for the case where unparticle states can be modelled as continuous mass particles with lifetime > 1s. By considering thermal background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 John McDonald

Primordial nucleosynthesis is inevitable during the early evolution of an expanding universe filled with radiation and matter (baryons). However, the precise abundance yields depend sensitively on the baryon density, the radiation content…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gary Steigman

A critical review is given of the current status of cosmological nucleosynthesis. In the framework of the standard model with 3 types of relativistic neutrinos, the baryon-to-photon ratio, \eta, corresponding to the inferred primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian Fields , Subir Sarkar

We consider the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) bounds on light dark matter whose cross section off nucleons is sufficiently large to enable acceleration by scattering off of cosmic rays in the local galaxy. Such accelerated DM could then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Gordan Krnjaic , Samuel D. McDermott

We study some possible experimental consequences of new physics on the spectrum and decays of bottomonium states below $B\bar{B}$ threshold. In addition to lepton universality breaking in Upsilon decays, large widths of pseudoscalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel-Angel Sanchis-Lozano

Spectrum of the neutrinos produced in the massive photon and longitudal plasmon decay process has been computed with four levels of approximation for the dispersion relations. Some analytical formulae in limiting cases are derived.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Odrzywolek

The problem of plane-wave diffraction on semi-infinite orthorhombic electromagnetic (photonic) crystals of general kind is considered. Boundary conditions are obtained in the form of infinite system of equations relating amplitudes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Pavel A. Belov , Constantin R. Simovski