Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-06-03
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 103515
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 1 new figure and clarifications added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.103515
We examine some cosmological consequences of gravity coupling with different strength to fermions and bosons. We show that this leads to a different perturbation of the standard picture of primordial nucleosynthesis than the addition of extra neutrino types or overall scaling of the value of G. Observed abundances of deuterium and helium-4 place bounds on the ratio of the bosonic gravitational constant (G_B) to the fermionic gravitational constant (G_F) of 0.45 < G_B/G_F < 0.92 at 1-sigma, and 0.33 < G_B/G_F < 1.10 at 2-sigma. A value of G_B < G_F can reconcile the current "tension" between the abundances of deuterium and helium-4 predicted by primordial nucleosynthesis. We comment briefly on other cosmological effects.
Barrow John D.
Scherrer Robert J.
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