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In any matter-antimatter symmetric cosmology the primeval nucleosynthesis imposes a typical size of a region of matter (antimatter) much larger than the diffusion length of neutrons. Observational results on the abundances of cosmic deuterium and helium are used to evaluate how large it has to be.
As a result we find that a minimal sizeL 1∼1.5×108 cm at the temperatureT=1 MeV is compatible with the standard abundances of primeval helium and deuterium.
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Combes, F., Fassi-Fehri, O. & Leroy, B. On the possibility of nucleosynthesis in any matter-antimatter symmetric cosmology. Astrophys Space Sci 37, 151–167 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00646069
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