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The dual origin of population II Li7, in both big bang nucleosynthesis and galactic cosmic-ray nucleosynthesis is discussed. It is argued that with additional Li6 data, stringent limits on the degree of Li7 depletion can be obtained. Li7…

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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

We present ABCMB, a differentiable Einstein-Boltzmann solver for the cosmic microwave background (CMB). ABCMB is a complete code capturing important effects to linear order in $\Lambda{\rm CDM}$ cosmology. It computes the CMB power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Zilu Zhou , Cara Giovanetti , Hongwan Liu

Many advances in astronomy and astrophysics originate from accurate images of the sky emission across multiple wavelengths. This often requires reconstructing spatially and spectrally correlated signals detected from multiple instruments.…

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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

In this work we present PRyMordial: A package dedicated to efficient computations of observables in the Early Universe with the focus on the cosmological era of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). The code offers fast and precise evaluation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-07 Anne-Katherine Burns , Tim M. P. Tait , Mauro Valli

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

Standard big bang nucleosynthesis (SBBN) has been remarkably successful, and it may well be the correct and sufficient account of what happened. However, interest in variations from the standard picture come from two sources: First, big…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hannu Kurki-Suonio

Driven by human ingenuity and creativity, the discovery of super-resolution techniques, which circumvent the classical diffraction limit of light, represent a leap in optical microscopy. However, the vast space encompassing all possible…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-17 Carla Rodríguez , Sören Arlt , Leonhard Möckl , Mario Krenn

We report the results of a new accurate evaluation of light nuclei yields in primordial nucleosynthesis. All radiative effects, finite nucleon mass, thermal and plasma corrections are included in the proton to neutron conversion rates. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Esposito , G. Mangano , G. Miele , O. Pisanti

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

Context. Inferring spectral parameters from X-ray data is one of the cornerstones of high-energy astrophysics, and is achieved using software stacks that have been developed over the last twenty years and more. However, as models get more…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Simon Dupourqué , Didier Barret , Camille M. Diez , Sébastien Guillot , Erwan Quintin

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 Laplace approximation provides a scalable and efficient means of quantifying weight-space uncertainty in deep neural networks, enabling the application of Bayesian tools such as predictive uncertainty and model selection via Occam's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Tobias Weber , Bálint Mucsányi , Lenard Rommel , Thomas Christie , Lars Kasüschke , Marvin Pförtner , Philipp Hennig

We present candl, an automatically differentiable python likelihood for analysing cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum measurements. candl is powered by JAX, which makes it fast and easy to calculate derivatives of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 L. Balkenhol , C. Trendafilova , K. Benabed , S. Galli

Primordial nucleosynthesis provides a probe of the Universe during its early evolution. Given the progress exploring the constituents, structure, and recent evolution of the Universe, it is timely to review the status of Big Bang…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gary Steigman

Primordial nucleosynthesis provides a probe of the Universe during its early evolution. Given the progress exploring the constituents, structure, and recent evolution of the Universe, it is timely to review the status of Big Bang…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Gary Steigman

There exist a range of exciting scientific opportunities for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) in the coming decade. BBN, a key particle astrophysics "tool" for decades, is poised to take on new capabilities to probe beyond standard model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Evan B. Grohs , J. Richard Bond , Ryan J. Cooke , George M. Fuller , Joel Meyers , Mark W. Paris

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is the synthesis of the light nuclei, Deuterium, He3, He4 and Li7, during the first few minutes of the universe. This review concentrates on recent improvements in the measurement of the primordial (after BBN,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 David Tytler , John M. O'Meara , Nao Suzuki , Dan Lubin

We present $\texttt{PyBird-JAX}$, a differentiable, $\texttt{JAX}$-based implementation of $\texttt{PyBird}$, using internal neural network emulators to accelerate computationally costly operations for rapid large-scale structure (LSS)…

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