Inhomogeneous Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the High Baryon Density Suggested by Boomerang and MAXIMA

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2000-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0011544v1

Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 083508

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.63.083508

The recent Boomerang and MAXIMA data on the cosmic microwave background suggest a large value for the baryonic matter density of the universe, omega_b = 0.03. This density is larger than allowed by standard big bang nucleosynthesis theory and observations on the abundances of the light elements. We explore here the possibility of accommodating this high density in inhomogeneous big bang nucleosynthesis (IBBN). It turns out that in IBBN the observed D and Y_p values are quite consistent with this high density. However, IBBN is not able to reduce the 7Li yield by more than about a factor of two. For IBBN to be the solution, one has to accept that the 7Li plateau in population II halo stars is depleted from the primordial abundance by at least a factor of two.

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