Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-06-19
Int.J.Theor.Phys.47:438-445,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in IJTP
Scientific paper
10.1007/s10773-007-9467-2
We constrain the possible time variation of the Higgs vacuum expectation value ($v$) by recent results on the primordial $^4He$ abundance ($Y_P$). For that, we use an analytic approach which enables us to take important issues into consideration, that have been ignored by previous works, like the $v$-dependence of the relevant cross sections of deuterium production and photodisintegration, including the full Klein- Nishina cross section. Furthermore, we take a non-equilibrium Ansatz for the freeze-out concentration of neutrons and protons and incorporate the latest results on the neutron decay. Finally, we approximate the key-parameters of the primordial $^4He$ production (the mean lifetime of the free neutron and the binding energy of the deuteron) by terms of $v\over v_0$ (where $v_0$ denotes the present theoretical estimate). Eventually, we derive the relation $Y_P \simeq 0.2479 - 5.54 (\frac{v-v_0}{v_0})^2 - 0.808~ (\frac{v-v_0}{v_0})$ and the most stringent limit on a possible time variation of $v$ is given by: $-5.4 \cdot 10^{-4} \leq \frac{v-v_0}{v_0} \leq 4.4 \cdot 10^{-4}$.
Gassner Josef M.
Lesch Harald
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