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Nucleosynthesis and matter–antimatter cosmologies

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IF light elements are of cosmological origin, then a given cosmological model should be able to reproduce the observed abundances1. Symmetric matter–antimatter cosmologies2–4 do not stand up to this test too well, and encounter problems whose basis is the annihilation process itself.

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    F. COMBES, O. FASSI-FEHRI & B. LEROY

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COMBES, F., FASSI-FEHRI, O. & LEROY, B. Nucleosynthesis and matter–antimatter cosmologies. Nature 253, 25–26 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/253025a0

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