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Big Bang Nucleosynthesis as a Probe of New Physics

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arxiv 1011.1054 v1 pith:SBYZ4CO5 submitted 2010-11-04 hep-ph astro-ph.CO

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis as a Probe of New Physics

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keywords bangphysicsabundancesnucleosynthesisparticleprobeannihilatingcatalysis
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Big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), an epoch of primordial nuclear transformations in the expanding Universe, has left an observable imprint in the abundances of light elements. Precision observations of such abundances, combined with high-accuracy predictions, provide a nontrivial test of the hot big bang and probe non-standard cosmological and particle physics scenarios. We give an overview of BBN sensitivity to different classes of new physics: new particle or field degrees of freedom, time-varying couplings, decaying or annihilating massive particles leading to non-thermal processes, and catalysis of BBN by charged relics.

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