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Revised Uncertainties in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) explores the first few minutes of nuclei formation after the Big Bang. We present updates that result in new constraints at the 2{\sigma} level for the abundances of the four primary light nuclides - D,3He,4He, and 7Li - in BBN. A modified standard BBN code was used in a Monte Carlo analysis of the nucleosynthesis uncertainty as a function of baryon-to-photon ratio. Reaction rates were updated to those of NACRE and REACLIB, and R-Matrix calculations. The results are then used to derive a new constraint on the effective number of neutrinos.
- Subjects :
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1706.02834
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218301317410087