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Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is very sensitive to the cosmological expansion rate. If the gravitational constant $G$ took a different value during the nucleosynthesis epoch than today, the primordial abundances of light elements would be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 James Alvey , Nashwan Sabti , Miguel Escudero , Malcolm Fairbairn

The modified gravity is considered to be one of possible explanations of the accelerated expansions of the present and the early universe. We study effects of the modified gravity on big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). If effects of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Motohiko Kusakabe , Seoktae Koh , K. S. Kim , 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

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis can provide, via constraints on the expansion rate at that time, limits on possible variations in Newton's Constant, $G$. The original analyses were performed before an independent measurement of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Craig J. Copi , Adam N. Davis , Lawrence M. Krauss

In conventional general relativity, the expansion rate H of a Robertson-Walker universe is related to the energy density by the Friedmann equation. Aside from the present day, the only epoch at which we can constrain the expansion history…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Sean M. Carroll , Manoj Kaplinghat

In this work, we investigate Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) within the framework of $f(T,{L}_m)$ gravity, where the gravitational Lagrangian is generalized as a function of the torsion scalar $T$ and the matter Lagrangian ${L}_m$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Daniel F. P. Cruz , David S. Pereira , Francisco S. N. Lobo , José P. Mimoso

We discuss the effects of a possible time variation of the Newton constant $G_{\rm N}$ on light elements production in Big Bang Nucleosyntesis (BBN). We provide analytical estimates for the dependence of primordial abundances on the value…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bambi , M. Giannotti , F. L. Villante

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

We use Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) data in order to impose constraints on higher-order modified gravity, and in particular on: (i) $f(G)$ Gauss-Bonnet gravity, and $f(P)$ cubic gravities, arising respectively through the use of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-11 Petros Asimakis , Spyros Basilakos , Nick E. Mavromatos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

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 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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Teodora Maria Matei , Cristian Croitoru , Tiberiu Harko

We review the recent progress in the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis which includes the standard and non-standard theory of cosmology, effects of neutrino degeneracy, and inhomogeneous nucleosynthesis within the framework of a Friedmann model. As…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-24 Riou Nakamura , Masa-aki Hasahimoto , Ryotaro Ichimasa , Kenzo Arai

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

We derive constraints on the time variation of the Higgs vacuum expectation value $<\phi>$ through the effects on Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In the former case, we include the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jerry Jaiyul Yoo , Robert J. Scherrer

In this thesis we study the influence of a possible variation of fundamental "constants" on the process of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). Our findings are combined with further studies on variations of constants in other physical processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 Steffen Stern

In the standard hot big bang model, the expansion of the early universe is given by the Friedmann equation with an energy density dominated by relativistic particles. Since in a variety of models this equation is altered, we introduce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Eduard Massó , Francesc Rota

$f(R)$ 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

A cosmological model with a time-varying mass of electrons seems a promising solution for the so-called Hubble tension. We examine the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints on the time-varying electron mass model, because a larger…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Osamu Seto , Yo Toda

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

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
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