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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

One of the three testaments in favor of the big bang theory is the prediction of the primordial elemental abundances in the big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). The Standard BBN is a parameter-free theory due to the precise knowledge of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Vinay Singh , Debasis Bhowmick , D. N. Basu

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 review important reactions in the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) model involving a long-lived negatively charged massive particle, $X^-$, which is much heavier than nucleons. This model can explain the observed $^7$Li abundances of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Motohiko Kusakabe , Grant. J. Mathews , Toshitaka Kajino , Myung-Ki Cheoun

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 estimate the Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraint on the majoron in the mass range between $1\,{\rm MeV}$ to $10\,{\rm GeV}$ which dominantly decays into the standard model neutrinos. When the majoron lifetime is shorter than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-02 Sanghyeon Chang , Sougata Ganguly , Tae Hyun Jung , Tae-Sun Park , Chang Sub Shin

We investigate the effects that arise from the inclusion of Weylian boundary terms in the Einstein gravitational field equations in the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) framework. With the help of the generalized Friedmann equations for a…

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

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) has increasingly become the tool of choice for investigating the permitted variation of fundamental constants during the earliest epochs of the Universe. Here we present a BBN calculation that has been…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. Kneller , G. C. McLaughlin

Motivated by the recent measurement of the primeval abundance of deuterium, we re-examine the nuclear inputs to big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). Using Monte-Carlo realization of the nuclear cross-section data to directly estimate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott Burles , Kenneth M. Nollett , James N. Truran , Michael S. Turner

The simplest, `standard' model of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (SBBN) assumes three light neutrinos (N_nu = 3) and no significant electron neutrino asymmetry, leaving only one adjustable parameter: the baryon to photon ratio eta. The primordial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James P. Kneller , Gary Steigman

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

We extensively reanalyze effects of a long-lived negatively charged massive particle, X-, on big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). The BBN model with an X- particle was originally motivated by the discrepancy between 6,7Li abundances predicted in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Motohiko Kusakabe , K. S. Kim , Myung-Ki Cheoun , Toshitaka Kajino , Yasushi Kino , Grant. J. Mathews

Primordial or Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the three historical strong evidences for the Big-Bang model together with the expansion of the Universe and the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB). The recent results by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-29 Alain Coc , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Elisabeth Vangioni

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

We study the impact of light GeV-scale heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) on Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) in the neutrino-extended Standard Model Effective Field Theory ($\nu$SMEFT). We show that, based on very general considerations, BBN…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Pieter Braat , Jordy de Vries , Jelle Groot , Julian Y. Günther , Juraj Klarić

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

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

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 or Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the three strong evidences for the Big- Bang model together with the expansion of the Universe and the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation. In this study, we improve the standard BBN…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Alain Coc , Stephane Goriely , Yi Xu , Matthias Saimpert , Elisabeth Vangioni

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are strongly motivated by theory due to their capability of simultaneously explaining the observed phenomena of dark matter, neutrino oscillations and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. The existence of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-09 Nashwan Sabti , Andrii Magalich , Anastasiia Filimonova