Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Dark Matter
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The cosmological abundance of nucleons determined from considerations of Big Bang nucleosynthesis allegedly provides compelling evidence for non-nucleonic dark matter. Recent developments in measurements of primordial light element abundances, in particular deuterium and helium, require reexamination of this important issue. The present situation is uncertain but exciting.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9611232,
title = {Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Dark Matter},
author = {Subir Sarkar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9611232},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
15 pages LaTeX (needs sprocl.sty) including 3 figures (epsf); Invited review to appear in proceedings of the workshop on `Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics', Heidelberg, Sept 16-20 1996, eds H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and Y. Ramachers (World Scientific Press); PostScript available at ftp://ftp.physics.ox.ac.uk/pub/local/users/sarkar/dark96.ps.gz