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Lithium isotopes have attracted an intense interest because the abundance of both 6Li and 7Li from big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the puzzles in nuclear astrophysics. Many investigations of both astrophysical observation and nucleosynthesis calculation have been carried out to solve the puzzle, but it is not solved yet. Several nuclear reactions involving lithium have been indirectly measured at China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing. The Standard BBN (SBBN) network calculations are then performed to investigate the primordial Lithium abundance. The result shows that these nuclear reactions have minimal effect on the SBBN abundances of 6Li and 7Li.
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Li, Z., Li, E., Su, J. et al. Study of the primordial lithium abundance. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 54 (Suppl 1), 67–72 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-011-4412-z
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