Physics – Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 2007
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PARTICLES, STRINGS, AND COSMOLOGY: 13th International Symposium on Particles, Strings, and Cosmology-PASCOS 2007. AIP Conferenc
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Origin, Formation, And Abundances Of The Elements, Unified Theories And Models Of Strong And Electroweak Interactions
Scientific paper
We analyze the effect of variation of fundamental couplings and mass scales on primordial nucleosynthesis in a systematic way. The first step establishes the response of primordial element abundances to the variation of a large number of nuclear physics parameters, including nuclear binding energies. We find a strong influence of the n-p mass difference, of the nucleon mass and of A = 3,4,7 binding energies. A second step relates the nuclear parameters to the parameters of the Standard Model of particle physics. The deuterium, and, above all, 7Li abundances depend strongly on the average light quark mass. We calculate the behaviour of abundances when variations of fundamental parameters obey relations arising from grand unification. We also discuss the possibility of a substantial shift in the lithium abundance while the deuterium and 4He abundances are only weakly affected.
Dent Thomas
Stern Steffen
Wetterich Christof
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