Refined Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Constraints on $Ω_{Baryon}$ and $N_ν$

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1994-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9402010v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 72 (1994) 3309-3312

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, latex, 3 uuencoded figures (appended)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.3309

We include correlations between elemental abundances in a Monte Carlo statistical analysis of BBN predictions, which, along with updated reaction rates and an improved BBN code, lead to tightened constraints on $\Omega_{B}$ and $N_{\nu}$. Observational upper limits on the primordial \he and $\rm {D + {^3He}}$ fractions of $24 \%$ (by weight) and $ 10^{-4}$ respectively lead to the limits: $0.015 \le \Omega_{B} \le 0.070$, and $N_{\nu} \le 3.04$. The former limit appears to be incompatible with purely baryonic galactic halo dark matter, while the latter puts qualitatively new constraints on neutrinos, and physics beyond the standard model.

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