Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Feb 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989phrvd..39.1046k&link_type=abstract
, Volume 39, Issue 4, 15 February 1989, pp.1046-1053
Statistics
Computation
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Origin, Formation, And Abundances Of The Elements, Elementary Particle Processes, Relativity And Gravitation
Scientific paper
We consider the evolution of the nuclear abundances in a universe with inhomogeneities (induced by the quark-hadron phase transition) on a scale such that neutron diffusion is important before and during nucleosynthesis. We investigate a number of initial baryon density contrast ratios: R=10, 100, 1000; a number of high-density volume fractions: fV=(1/4, (1/8, (1/16, and (1/64; and a number of geometries: planar, cylindrical with the higher density near the center, cylindrical with the higher density near the outer zone of computation (thin-walled tubes of higher density), spherical with the higher density near the center (isolated spherical regions of high density), and spherical with the higher density near the outer zones of the computation (a foam structure of high-density regions). We concentrate on three R=100 models. For a high-density [η=70×10-10≡ρbaryon(now) =4.3×10-30 g cm-3] universe that would be closed for Hubble parameter H0=50 km/sec Mpc, we find disagreement in all three isotopes (2H, 4He, 7Li) with observations, regardless of the scale ri of the inhomogeneity; for η=3×10-10 and η=7×10-10, ``low''- and ``high''-standard values (η=3×10-10 corresponds in the homogeneous case to the absolute minimum of 7Li production), we find that for inhomogeneity distance scales typical of those expected at the quark-hadron transition, i.e., ri<~100 m, then 4He and 2H abundances remain in agreement with observational values, and 7Li is also not much changed from its value in a homogeneous cosmology.
Kurki-Suonio Hannu
Matzner Richard A.
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