Primordial nucleosynthesis as a probe of fundamental physics parameters
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Primordial nucleosynthesis as a probe of fundamental physics parameters
We analyze the effect of variation of fundamental couplings and mass scales on primordial nucleosynthesis in a systematic way. The first step establishes the response of primordial element abundances to the variation of a large number of nuclear physics parameters, including nuclear binding energies. We find a strong influence of the n−p mass difference (for the He abundance), of the nucleon ma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review D
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1550-7998,1550-2368
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.76.063513