Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Dark Matter
Abstract
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The cosmological abundance of nucleons determined from considerations of Big Bang nucleosynthesis allegedly provides compelling evidence for non-nucleonic dark matter. Recent developments in measurements of primordial light element abundances, in particular deuterium and helium, require reexamination of this important issue. The present situation is uncertain but exciting.
15 pages LaTeX (needs sprocl.sty) including 3 figures (epsf); Invited review to appear in proceedings of the workshop on `Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics', Heidelberg, Sept 16-20 1996, eds H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and Y. Ramachers (World Scientific Press); PostScript available at ftp://ftp.physics.ox.ac.uk/pub/local/users/sarkar/dark96.ps.gz
15 pages LaTeX (needs sprocl.sty) including 3 figures (epsf); Invited review to appear in proceedings of the workshop on `Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics', Heidelberg, Sept 16-20 1996, eds H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and Y. Ramachers (World Scientific Press); PostScript available at ftp://ftp.physics.ox.ac.uk/pub/local/users/sarkar/dark96.ps.gz