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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

The Big-Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) initial neutron abundance and the neutron lifetime depend on the magnitude of the Fermi coupling constant $G_F$. When allowing for radiative corrections, $G_F$ depends on the symmetry breaking Weinberg…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Cheng Tao Yang , Johann Rafelski

We present a brief review of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). We discuss theoretical and observational uncertainties in deuterium and helium-4 primordial abundances and their implications for the determination of important cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. L. Villante , A. D. Dolgov

As the early universe expands and cools the rates of the weak interactions that keep neutrinos in thermal equilibrium with the matter and the related rates of the reactions that inter-convert neutrons and protons decrease. Eventually, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-31 Evan Grohs , George M. Fuller

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

We confront $f(T,T_G)$ gravity, with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) requirements. The former is obtained using both the torsion scalar, as well as the teleparallel equivalent of the Gauss-Bonnet term, in the Lagrangian, resulting to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Petros Asimakis , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Spyros Basilakos , Kuralay Yesmakhanova

Scale-independent energy-momentum squared gravity (EMSG) allows different gravitational couplings for different types of sources and has been proven to have interesting implications in cosmology. In this paper, the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Dukjae Jang , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Myung-Ki Cheoun , Toshitaka Kajino , M. Sami

A review of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is presented. Observations of deuterium and helium-4 are discussed. Some BBN restrictions on non-standard physics, especially on neutrino properties and time-variation of fundamental constants are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 A. D. Dolgov

We have performed new Big Bang Nucleosynthesis calculations which employ arbitrarily-specified, time-dependent neutrino and antineutrino distribution functions for each of up to four neutrino flavors. We self-consistently couple these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Christel J. Smith , George M. Fuller , Michael S. Smith

Primordial or big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the three historical strong evidences for the big bang model. Standard BBN is now a parameter free theory, since the baryonic density of the Universe has been deduced with an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-30 Alain Coc , Patrick Petitjean , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Elisabeth Vangioni , Pierre Descouvemont , Christian Illiadis , Richard Longland

We derive big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints on both unstable and stable gravitino taking account of recent progresses in theoretical study of the BBN processes as well as observations of primordial light-element abundances. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-28 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Takeo Moroi , Akira Yotsuyanagi

Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is the earliest sensitive probe of the values of many fundamental particle physics parameters. We have found the leading linear dependences of primordial abundances on all relevant parameters of the standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Dent , Steffen Stern

The big bang singularity of the expanding-universe Friedmann solution of the Einstein gravitational field equation can be regularized by the introduction of a degenerate metric and a nonzero length scale $b$. The result is a nonsingular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-25 F. R. Klinkhamer

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

We present a model for big bang nucleosynthesis which combines baryon inhomogeneities with the effects of the decays of massive particles (masses higher than a few GeV). Those particles, with half-lives longer than the standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Lopez-Suarez , R. Canal

The Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) model is a cornerstone for the understanding of the evolution of the early universe, making seminal predictions that are in outstanding agreement with the present observation of light element abundances in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Carlos A. Bertulani , Francis W. Hall , Benjamin I. Santoyo

We revisit the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) limits on primordial magnetic fields and/or turbulent motions accounting for the decaying nature of turbulent sources between the time of generation and BBN. This leads to larger estimates for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Tina Kahniashvili , Emma Clarke , Jonathan Stepp , Axel Brandenburg

We investigate whether Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) remains compatible with the Covarying Coupling Constants plus Tired Light (CCC+TL) cosmology. In this framework, only quantities with explicit length dimensionality covary through a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 Rajendra P. Gupta , Nikolaos Samaras

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…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-01-18 Alain Coc

We consider the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) in the Brane world scenario, where all matter fields are confined on our 3-brane and the radion of the Brane evolves cosmologically. In the Einstein frame fundamental fermion masses vary and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Baojiu Li , Ming-Chung Chu