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Primordial Nucleosynthesis: Beyond the Standard Model

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Nuclei in the Cosmos

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Non-standard primordial nucleosynthesis merits continued study for several reasons. First and foremost are the important implications determined from primordial nucleosynthesis regarding the composition of the matter in the universe. Second, the production and the subsequent observation of the primordial isotopes is our most direct experimental link with the early (t ≲1 sec) universe. Third, studies of primordial nucleosynthesis allow for important, and otherwise unattainable, constraints on many aspects of particle physics. Finally, there is tentative evidence which suggests that the Standard Big Bang (SBB) model is incorrect in that it cannot reproduce the inferred primordial abundances for a single value of the baryon-to-photon ratio.

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Malaney, R.A. (1991). Primordial Nucleosynthesis: Beyond the Standard Model. In: Oberhummer, H. (eds) Nuclei in the Cosmos. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48840-5_7

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