Cosmological variation of deuteron binding energy, strong interaction and quark masses from big bang nucleosynthesis

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2003-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310892v1

Phys.Rev.D69:063506,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.69.063506

We use Big Bang Nucleosynthesis calculations and light element abundance data to constrain the relative variation of the deuteron binding energy since the universe was a few minutes old, $\delta Q = Q(BBN)-Q(present)$. Two approaches are used, first treating the baryon to photon ratio, $\eta$, as a free parameter, but with the additional freedom of varying $\delta Q$, and second using the WMAP value of $\eta$ and solving only for $\delta Q$. Including varying $Q$ yields a better fit to the observational data than imposing the present day value, rectifying the discrepancy between the $^4He$ abundance and the deuterium and $^7Li$ abundances, {\it and} yields good agreement with the independently determined $\eta_{WMAP}$. The minimal deviation consistent with the data is significant at about the 4-$\sigma$ level; $\delta Q/Q= -0.019 \pm 0.005$. If the primordial $^4$He abundance lies towards the low end of values in the literature, this deviation is even larger and more statistically significant. Taking the light element abundance data at face-value, our result may be interpreted as variation of the dimensionless ratio $X=m_s/\Lambda_{QCD}$ of the strange quark mass and strong scale: $\delta X/X=(1.1 \pm 0.3) \times 10^{-3}$. These results provide a strong motivation for a more thorough exploration of the potential systematic errors in the light element abundance data.

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