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In this work we investigate the impact of two phenomenological Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) scenarios concerning the role of neutrinos in the early universe: non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) and non-unitary three-neutrino mixing.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Gabriela Barenboim , Stefano Gariazzo , Alberto Sánchez-Vargas

We present a model-independent reconstruction of the early expansion and thermal histories of the universe, obtained from light element abundance measurements. The expansion history is tightly constrained around the onset of the Big Bang…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Rui An , Vera Gluscevic

We examine big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) in models with a time-varying gravitational constant $G$, when this time variation is rapid on the scale of the expansion rate $H$, i.e, $\dot G/G \gg H$. Such models can arise naturally in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Anish Giri , Robert J. Scherrer

This paper is superseded by Arxiv:1911.07334. Big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is a valuable tool to constrain the physics of the early universe and is the only probe of the radiation-dominated epoch. A fundamental assumption in BBN is that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Nishanth Sasankan , Atul Kedia , Motohiko Kusakabe , Grant J Mathews

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is an important stage of a homogeneous and isotropic expanding universe. The results of calculation of the synthesis of light elements during this epoch can then be compared with the abundances of the light…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-15 Chen Wu

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

The effects of radiatively decaying, long-lived particles on big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) are discussed. If high-energy photons are emitted after BBN, they may change the abundances of the light elements through photodissociation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Erich Holtmann , M. Kawasaki , K. Kohri , Takeo Moroi

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

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 show that the predicted primordial helium production is significantly reduced when new measurements of the neutron lifetime and the implied enhancement in the weak reaction rates are included in big-bang nucleosynthesis. Therefore, even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. J. Mathews , T. Kajino , T. Shima

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

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

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

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