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Big-bang nucleosynthesis enters the precision era
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The last parameter of big-bang nucleosynthesis, the density of ordinary matter (baryons), is being pinned down by measurements of the deuterium abundance in high-redshift hydrogen clouds. When it is, the primeval abundances of the light elements D, ${}^{3}\mathrm{He},$ ${}^{7}\mathrm{Li},$ and ${}^{4}\mathrm{He}$ will be fixed. The first three will then become ``tracers'' in the study of Galactic and stellar chemical evolution. A precision determination of the ${}^{4}\mathrm{He}$ abundance will allow an important consistency test of big-bang nucleosynthesis and will sharpen nucleosynthesis as a probe of fundamental physics, e.g., the bound to the number of light neutrino species. An independent consistency test is on the horizon: a high-precision determination of the baryon density from measurements of the fluctuations of the cosmic background radiation temperature.
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- Schramm, D. N., & Turner, M. S.
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
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- Turner, Michael S.
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- Reviews of Modern Physics
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- 1998-01-01
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- 303-318
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