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We consider Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) with long lived charged massive particles. Before decaying, the long lived charged particle recombines with a light element to form a bound state like a hydrogen atom. This effect modifies the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazunori Kohri , Fumihiro Takayama

The theoretical predictions of the primordial abundances of elements in the big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) are dominated by uncertainties in the input nuclear reaction rates. We investigate the effect of modifying these reaction rates on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-03 Abhishek Mishra , D. N. Basu

During Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), in the first 20 minutes of the evolution of the Universe, the light nuclides, D, 3He, 4He, and 7Li were synthesized in astrophysically interesting abundances. The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-21 Gary Steigman

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis provides us with an observational insight into the very early Universe. Since this mechanism of light element synthesis comes out of the standard model of particle cosmology which follows directly from General…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Sai Swagat Mishra , Ameya Kolhatkar , P. K. Sahoo

Prediction of the primordial abundances of elements in the big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the three strong evidences for the big bang model. Precise knowledge of the baryon-to-photon ratio of the Universe from observations of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-24 Vinay Singh , Joydev Lahiri , Debasis Bhowmick , D. N. Basu

Primordial nucleosynthesis, or big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), is one of the three evidences for the big bang model, together with the expansion of the universe and the cosmic microwave background. There is a good global agreement over a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Alain Coc , Elisabeth Vangioni

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

The relic abundances of the light elements synthesized during the first few minutes of the evolution of the Universe provide unique probes of cosmology and the building blocks for stellar and galactic chemical evolution, while also enabling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Gary Steigman

We present an up-to-date review of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). We discuss the main improvements which have been achieved in the past two decades on the overall theoretical framework, summarize the impact of new experimental results on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-21 F. Iocco , G. Mangano , G. Miele , O. Pisanti , P. D. Serpico

Sasankan et al, have recently claimed that there are significant deviations in the phase-space distributions of the kinetic energies of nuclei from the Maxwell-Boltzmann form usually assumed in BBN, and further, that these deviations lead…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-22 Samuel D. McDermott , Michael S. Turner

We investigate Big Bang nucleosynthesis (hereafter, BBN) in a cosmic environment characterized by a distribution of small-scale matter/antimatter domains. Production of antimatter domains in a baryo-asymmetric universe is predicted in some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jan B. Rehm , Karsten Jedamzik

We provide the most stringent constraint to date on possible deviations from the usually-assumed Maxwell-Boltzmann (MB) velocity distribution for nuclei in the Big-Bang plasma. The impact of non-extensive Tsallis statistics on thermonuclear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-20 S. Q. Hou , J. J. He , A. Parikh , K. Daid , C. Bertulani

To elucidate the significance of the effect of systematic uncertainties in light element abundance estimates on cosmological bounds derivable from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) we present tables giving bounds on $\Omega_{baryon}$ and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Lawrence M. Krauss , Peter J. Kernan

The primordial abundances of the light nuclides produced by Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) during the first 20 minutes in the evolution of the Universe are sensitive to the universal density of baryons and to the expansion rate of the early…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gary Steigman

Big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies independently predict the universal baryon density. Comparing their predictions will provide a fundamental test on cosmology. Using BBN and the CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard H. Cyburt

Big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) probes the cosmic mass-energy density at temperatures $\sim 10$ MeV to $\sim 100$ keV. Here, we consider the effect of a cosmic matter-like species that is non-relativistic and pressureless during BBN. Such a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-18 Tsung-Han Yeh , Keith A. Olive , Brian D. Fields

In the primordial Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), only the lightest nuclides (D, $^3$He, $^4$He, and $^7$Li) were synthesized in appreciable quantities, and these relics provide us a unique window on the early universe. Currently, BBN…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-23 J. J. He , S. Q. Hou , A. Parikh , D. Kahl , C. A. Bertulani , other collaborators

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) explores the first few minutes of nuclei formation after the Big Bang. We present updates that result in new constraints at the 2{\sigma} level for the abundances of the four primary light nuclides -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Michael Foley , Nishanth Sasankan , Motohiko Kusakabe , Grant. J. Mathews

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

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