Primordial nucleosynthesis as a probe of fundamental physics parameters
| dc.creator | Dent, Thomas | |
| dc.creator | Stern, Steffen | |
| dc.creator | Wetterich, Christof | |
| dc.date | 2007-05-07 | |
| dc.date | 2007-08-10 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T12:13:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T12:13:29Z | |
| dc.description | We analyze the effect of variation of fundamental couplings and mass scales on primordial nucleosynthesis in a systematic way. The first step establishes the response of primordial element abundances to the variation of a large number of nuclear physics parameters, including nuclear binding energies. We find a strong influence of the n-p mass difference (for the 4He abundance), of the nucleon mass (for deuterium) and of A=3,4,7 binding energies (for 3He, 6Li and 7Li). A second step relates the nuclear parameters to the parameters of the Standard Model of particle physics. The deuterium, and, above all, 7Li abundances depend strongly on the average light quark mass hat{m} \equiv (m_u+m_d)/2. We calculate the behaviour of abundances when variations of fundamental parameters obey relations arising from grand unification. We also discuss the possibility of a substantial shift in the lithium abundance while the deuterium and 4He abundances are only weakly affected. | |
| dc.description | v2: 34 pages, 2 figures, typo in last GUT scenario corrected, added discussion and graph of nonlinear behaviour in GUT scenarios, added short section discussing binding of dineutron and 8Be, refs added, conclusions unaltered. Accepted for publication, Phys. Rev. D | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0696 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0696 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Rev.D76:063513,2007 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.063513 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/210861 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Primordial nucleosynthesis as a probe of fundamental physics parameters | |
| dc.type | text |