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Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis

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We make a brief historical review of the Big Bang model from A. Einstein to G. Gamow. Then we describe achievements of Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) and introduce many studies on the accelerated expansion of the universe. Nonstandard approaches are also exemplified with neutrino degeneracy or a decaying cosmological term. We also introduce brane-world cosmology in a five-dimensional space-time and a modified Brans-Dicke (BD) model with a variable cosmological term. Finally, we describe the structure of the present text.

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  3. Department of Physics, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

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Hashimoto, Ma., Nakamura, R., Thushari, E.P.B.A., Arai, K. (2018). Introduction. In: Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2935-7_1

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