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During the process of thermal leptogenesis temperature decreases by about one order of magnitude while the baryon asymmetry is generated. We present an analytical description of this process so that the dependence on the neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Buchmuller , P. Di Bari , M. Plumacher

Primordial or Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the three strong evidences for the Big- Bang model together with the expansion of the Universe and the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. In this study, we improve the standard BBN…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Alain Coc , Stephane Goriely , Yi Xu , Matthias Saimpert , Elisabeth Vangioni

Electron mass is known to modify at finite temperatures and densities. Weak nuclear processes have a great impact on electron mass which modifies in a statistical background. We demonstrate how the temperature change in electron mass is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 Samina Masood , Jaskeerat Singh

We show that a rotating axion field that makes a transition from a matter-like equation of state to a kination-like equation of state around the epoch of recombination can significantly ameliorate the Hubble tension, i.e., the discrepancy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 Raymond T. Co , Nicolas Fernandez , Akshay Ghalsasi , Keisuke Harigaya , Jessie Shelton

We present models of decaying particles for increasing the effective number of neutrinos N_nu after big bang nucleosynthesis but before the structure formation begins. We point out that our scenario not only solves the discrepancy between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Kazuhide Ichikawa , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Nakayama , Masato Senami , Fuminobu Takahashi

We revisit the method of using the photon-graviton conversion mechanism in the presence of the external magnetic field to probe small-scale primordial magnetic fields that may exist between the last scattering surface and present.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-01 Pisin Chen , Teruaki Suyama

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

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 investigate the effects of baryon/anti-baryon inhomogeneity on primordial nucleosynthesis. Recent work claims that electroweak baryogenesis could give rise to distinct regions of net baryon and anti-baryon number, which could survive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kevork Abazajian , George M. Fuller

We investigate the evolution of non-extensivity in the photon distribution during the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) epoch using Tsallis statistics. Assuming a minimal deviation from the Planck distribution, we construct the perturbed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Jeongyoon Choi , Dukjae Jang , Youngshin Kwon , Gwangeon Seong , Myeong Hwan Mun , Young-Min Kim , Kyujin Kwak , Myung-Ki Cheoun

We study the effect of large baryonic isocurvature perturbations on the abundance of deuterium (D) synthesized in big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). We found that large baryonic isocurvature perturbations existing at the BBN epoch ($T\sim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Alexander Kusenko , Louis Yang

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

In certain laboratory experiments the production and/or detection of axions is due to the photon-axion transformations in a strong magnetic field. This process is coherent, and the rate of the transformation is proportional to the length…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov , H. B. Tran Tan , D. Budker

We test the assumption of entropy conservation between Big Bang nucleosynthesis and recombination by considering a massive particle that decays into a mixture of photons and other relativistic species. We employ Planck temperature and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Alexander C. Sobotka , Adrienne L. Erickcek , Tristan L. Smith

We consider the early binary neutron star inspiral phase as a scenario to probe environmental axion--photon resonant conversion. For this we approximately model the merger site electromagnetic fields as the superposition of two rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 D. Suárez-Fontanella , M. Ángeles Pérez-García , C. Albertus

We perform calculations of dark photon production and decay in the early universe for ranges of dark photon masses and vacuum coupling with standard model photons. Simultaneously and self-consistently with dark photon production and decay,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Jung-Tsung Li , George M. Fuller , Evan Grohs

The possible existence of axions in the universe introduces the intriguing possibility of photon-axion conversion in strong magnetic fields, particularly near compact objects like supermassive black holes or even naked singularity. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-24 Ayush Hazarika , Premachand Mahapatra , Subhadip Sau

We consider a chiral baryon-meson model for nucleons and their parity partners in mirror assignment interacting with pions, sigma and omega mesons to describe the liquid-gas transition of nuclear matter together with chiral symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-05 Johannes Weyrich , Nils Strodthoff , Lorenz von Smekal

We study effects of relic long-lived strongly interacting massive particles (X particles) on big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). The X particle is assumed to have existed during the BBN epoch, but decayed long before detected. The interaction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Motohiko Kusakabe , Toshitaka Kajino , Takashi Yoshida , Grant J. Mathews

The centrality dependence of the $p/\pi$ ratio measured by the ALICE Collaboration in 5.02 TeV Pb-Pb collisions indicates a statistically significant suppression with the increase of the charged particle multiplicity once the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-22 Volodymyr Vovchenko , Volker Koch