No Crisis for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Details No Crisis for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis No Crisis for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

1996-03-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9603045v2

Phys.Rev.D54:3681-3685,1996

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages LaTeX (uses ReVTeX), including 3 PostScript figures (uses epsf); Full paper available from ftp://ftp.physics.ox.ac.

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.54.R3681

Contrary to a recent claim, the inferred primordial abundances of the light elements are quite consistent with the expectations from standard big bang nucleosynthesis when attention is restricted to direct observations rather than results from chemical evolution models. The number of light neutrino (or equivalent particle) species ($N_\nu$) can be as high as 4.53 if the nucleon-to-photon ratio ($\eta$) is at its lower limit of $1.65 \times 10^{-10}$, as constrained by the upper bound on the deuterium abundance in high redshift quasar absorption systems. Alternatively, with $N_\nu = 3$, $\eta$ can be as high as $8.90 \times 10^{-10}$ if the deuterium abundance is bounded from below by its interstellar value.

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