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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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Metadata
- Authors
- Schramm, D. N., & Turner, M. S.
- Affiliations
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- ORCID
- Turner, Michael S.
- Venue
- Reviews of Modern Physics
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1998-01-01
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 303-318
- ISSN
- 0034-6861 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-0756
- OpenAlex
- W2137076145
- Cited by
- 353
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 33.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Reviews of Modern Physics (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Nuclear Physics
- Fermilab
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Nuclear physics research studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Neutrino Physics Research
- Keywords
- big bang nucleosynthesis, baryon density, deuterium abundance, primordial light element abundances, helium-4 abundance, helium-3, lithium-7, deuterium, number of light neutrino species, chemical evolution
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