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We provide a fresh look at the cosmological constraints on axion-like particles (ALPs) that couple predominantly to photons, focusing on lifetimes $\tau_{a} \lesssim 10^{4}\, {\rm s}$ and masses $m_a\lesssim 10\,{\rm GeV}$. We consider Big…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Miguel Escudero , Clara Garcia-Perez , Maksym Ovchynnikov

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 investigate constraints on Lorentz invariance violation in the neutrino sector from a joint analysis of big bang nucleosynthesis and the cosmic microwave background. The effect of Lorentz invariance violation during the epoch of big bang…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Wei-Ming Dai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

We study the effect of neutrino degeneracy on primordial nucleosynthesis in a universe in which the cosmological scale factor evolves linearly with time. The degeneracy parameter of electron type neutrinos ($\xi_e$) determines the $n/p$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-02 Parminder Singh , Daksh Lohiya

We calculate Boltzmann neutrino energy transport with self-consistently coupled nuclear reactions through the weak-decoupling-nucleosynthesis epoch in an early universe with significant lepton numbers. We find that the presence of lepton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 E. Grohs , George M. Fuller , C. T. Kishimoto , Mark W. Paris

We consider the effect of inhomogeneous neutrino degeneracy on Big Bang nucleosynthesis for the case where the distribution of neutrino chemical potentials is given by a Gaussian. The chemical potential fluctuations are taken to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Spencer D. Stirling , Robert J. Scherrer

We present the Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) simulation with a bubble universe scenario around a rotating black hole (BH) in Kerr-AdS$_5$ spacetime to explain recently updated observations of light elements such as the primordial helium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Akira Dohi , Issei Koga , Kazushige Ueda

We study the effects of dark-matter annihilation during the epoch of big-bang nucleosynthesis on the primordial abundances of light elements. We improve the calculation of the light-element abundances by taking into account the effects of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Takeo Moroi , Yoshitaro Takaesu

In this study, we explore temperature-dependent CPT violation during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) through electron-positron mass asymmetries parametrized by $b_0(T) = \alpha T^2$. The $T^2$ scaling naturally evades stringent laboratory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Gabriela Barenboim , Anne-Katherine Burns

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

Many models of new physics including variants of supersymmetry predict metastable long-lived particles that can decay during or after primordial nucleosynthesis, releasing significant amounts of non-thermal energy. The hadronic energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-25 Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

The high densities in the early Universe provide a unique laboratory to constrain couplings between feebly interacting particles, such as dark matter and neutrinos. In this article, we study how Big Bang Nucleosynthesis can constrain models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Toni Bertólez-Martínez , Justo López-Sarrión , Jordi Salvado

Primordial or big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the three historical strong evidences for the big bang model. The recent results by the Planck satellite mission have slightly changed the estimate of the baryonic density compared to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Alain Coc , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Elisabeth Vangioni

The early, hot, dense, expanding Universe was a primordial reactor in which the light nuclides D, 3He, 4He and 7Li were synthesized in astrophysically interesting abundances. The challenge to the standard hot big bang model (Big Bang…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gary Steigman

Recently, the EMPRESS collaboration has included new data in the extraction of the primordial $^4$He abundance from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), resulting in a determination that differs from the previous value and from theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-09 Anne-Katherine Burns , Venus Keus , Marc Sher , Tim M. P. Tait

Neutrino physics in the early Universe is key to our understanding of later cosmological stages, such as primordial nucleosynthesis (BBN) or the formation of large-scale structures. The coming decade promises new experimental results to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-15 Julien Froustey

We determine the influence of a variation of the fundamental ``constants'' on the predicted helium abundance in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. The analytic estimate is performed in two parts: the first step determines the dependence of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian M. Mueller , Gregor Schaefer , Christof Wetterich

Recently it is reported that there is the discrepancy between big bang nucleosynthesis theory and observations (BBN crisis). We show that BBN predictions agree with the primordial abundances of light elements, He4, D, He3 and Li7 inferred…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Kohri , M. Kawasaki , Katsuhiko Sato

We study the impact on the primordial abundances of light elements created by a variation of the quark masses at the time of Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). In order to navigate through the particle and nuclear physics required to connect…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Paulo F. Bedaque , Thomas Luu , Lucas Platter

The early universe provides a unique laboratory for probing the frontiers of particle physics in general and neutrino physics in particular. The primordial abundances of the relic nuclei produced during the first few minutes of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Gary Steigman