Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with a New Neutron Lifetime

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2004-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408523v2

Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 021302

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 1 figure, Submitted to Physical Review D, Revised per referee's suggestions

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.021302

We show that the predicted primordial helium production is significantly reduced when new measurements of the neutron lifetime and the implied enhancement in the weak reaction rates are included in big-bang nucleosynthesis. Therefore, even if a narrow uncertainty in the observed helium abundance is adopted, this brings the constraint on the baryon-to-photon ratio from BBN and the observed helium into better accord with the independent determination of the baryon content deduced from the WMAP spectrum of power fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background,and measurements of primordial deuterium in narrow-line quasar absorption systems at high redshift.

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