Big Bang Nucleosynthesis in Crisis?

Details Big Bang Nucleosynthesis in Crisis? Big Bang Nucleosynthesis in Crisis?

1995-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9505319v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.75:3977-3980,1995

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

To be published in Phys. Rev. Lett. Revised version to reflect referee comments and criticisms by Copi, Schramm, and Turner of

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.3977

A new evaluation of the constraint on the number of light neutrino species (N_nu) from big bang nucleosynthesis suggests a discrepancy between the predicted light element abundances and those inferred from observations, unless the inferred primordial 4He abundance has been underestimated by 0.014 +/- 0.004 (1 sigma) or less than 10% (95%C.L.) of 3He survives stellar processing. With the quoted systematic errors in the observed abundances and a conservative chemical evolution parameterization, the best fit to the combined data is N_nu = 2.1 +/- 0.3 (1 sigma) and the upper limit is N_nu < 2.6 (95% C.L.). The data are inconsistent with the Standard Model (N_nu = 3) at the 98.6% C.L.

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