scholarly journals Big Bang nucleosynthesis with long-lived strongly interacting relic particles

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S268) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Motohiko Kusakabe ◽  
Toshitaka Kajino ◽  
Takashi Yoshida ◽  
Grant J. Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Beta Decay ◽  
Bound States ◽  
Nuclear Reactions ◽  
Interaction Strength ◽  
Light Element ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Heavy Elements ◽  
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ◽  
Element Abundances ◽  
Strongly Interacting

AbstractWe study effects of relic long-lived strongly interacting massive particles (X particles) on big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). The X particle is assumed to have existed during the BBN epoch, but decayed long before detected. The interaction strength between an X and a nucleon is assumed to be similar to that between nucleons. Rates of nuclear reactions and beta decay of X-nuclei are calculated, and the BBN in the presence of neutral charged X0 particles is calculated taking account of captures of X0 by nuclei. As a result, the X0 particles form bound states with normal nuclei during a relatively early epoch of BBN leading to the production of heavy elements. Constraints on the abundance of X0 are derived from observations of primordial light element abundances. Particle models which predict long-lived colored particles with lifetimes longer than ~200 s are rejected. This scenario prefers the production of 9Be and 10B. There might, therefore, remain a signature of the X particle on primordial abundances of those elements. Possible signatures left on light element abundances expected in four different models are summarized.

Big Bang nucleosynthesis, microwave anisotropy, and the light element abundances

2005 ◽  
Vol 752 ◽  
pp. 522-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Coc ◽  
C. Angulo ◽  
E. Vangioni-Flam ◽  
P. Descouvemont ◽  
A. Adahchour
Keyword(s):  
Light Element ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ◽  
Element Abundances

scholarly journals Progress on the BL2 beam measurement of the neutron lifetime

2019 ◽  
Vol 219 ◽  
pp. 03002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon F. Hoogerheide ◽  
Jimmy Caylor ◽  
Evan R. Adamek ◽  
Eamon S. Anderson ◽  
Ripan Biswas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Light Element ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Neutron Lifetime ◽  
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ◽  
Element Abundances ◽  
Cold Neutron Beam ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Systematic Effects ◽  
Mixing Matrix ◽  
Beam Technique

A precise value of the neutron lifetime is important in several areas of physics, including determinations of the quark-mixing matrix element |Vud|, related tests of the Standard Model, and predictions of light element abundances in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis models. We report the progress on a new measurement of the neutron lifetime utilizing the cold neutron beam technique. Several experimental improvements in both neutron and proton counting that have been developed over the last decade are presented. This new effort should yield a final uncertainty on the lifetime of 1 s with an improved understanding of the systematic effects.

STAU-CATALYZED BIG-BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS AND NUCLEAR CLUSTER MODEL

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 2076-2083 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. KAMIMURA ◽  
Y. KINO ◽  
E. HIYAMA
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
Cluster Model ◽  
Nuclear Reactions ◽  
Light Element ◽  
Bound State ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Reaction Cross ◽  
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ◽  
Model Calculations ◽  
Three Body

Three-body cluster-model calculations are performed for the new types of big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) reactions that are calalyzed by a supersymmetric (SUSY) particle stau, a scalar partner of the tau lepton. If a stau has a lifetime ≳ 103s, it would capture a light element previously synthesized in standard BBN and form a Coulombic bound state. The bound state, an exotic atom, is expected to induce various reactions, such as (αX-) + d → 6 Li + X-, in which a negatively charged stau (denoted as X-) works as a catalyzer. Recent literature papers have claimed that some of these stau-catalyzed reactions have significantly large cross sections so that inclusion of the reactions into the BBN network calculation can change drastically abundances of some elements, giving not only a solution to the 6 Li -7 Li problem (calculated underproduction of 6 Li by ~ 1000 times and overproduction of 7 Li +7 Be by ~ 3 times) but also a constraint on the lifetime and the primordial abundance of the elementary particle stau. However, most of these literature calculations of the reaction cross sections were made assuming too naive models or approximations that are unsuitable for those complicated low-energy nuclear reactions. We use a few-body calculational method developed by the authors, and provides precise cross sections and rates of the stau-catalyzed BBN reactions for the use in the BBN network calculation.

Signature of Long-lived Relic Particles on Primordial Light Element Abundances in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motohiko Kusakabe ◽  
Toshitaka Kajino ◽  
Takashi Yoshida ◽  
Grant J. Mathews ◽  
Isao Tanihara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Light Element ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ◽  
Element Abundances

POSSIBILITY OF A SIGNATURE OF THE RADIATIVE DECAY OF RELIC PARTICLES ON LIGHT ELEMENT ABUNDANCES

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (25n28) ◽  
pp. 2019-2026
Author(s):  
MOTOHIKO KUSAKABE ◽  
TOSHITAKA KAJINO ◽  
GRANT J. MATHEWS
Keyword(s):  
Radiative Decay ◽  
Light Element ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Decay Process ◽  
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ◽  
Element Abundances ◽  
Unstable Particles ◽  
Halo Stars ◽  
Primordial Abundance ◽  
Isotopic Abundances

Recent spectroscopic observations of metal poor stars have indicated that both 7 Li and 6 Li have abundance plateaus as a function of the metallicity. Abundances of 7 Li are about a factor three lower than the primordial abundance predicted by standard big-bang nucleosynthesis (SBBN), and 6 Li abundances are ~ 1/20 of 7 Li , whereas SBBN predicts negligible amounts of 6 Li compared to the detected level. These discrepancies suggest that 6 Li has another cosmological or Galactic origin. Furthermore, it appear that 7 Li (and also 6 Li ) has been depleted from its primordial abundance by some post-BBN processes. We study the possibility that the radiative decay of long-lived particles has affected the cosmological lithium abundances in reality. We calculate the non-thermal nucleosynthesis associated with the radiative decay, and explore the allowed region of the parameters specifying the properties of long-lived particles. We also impose constraints from observations of the CMB energy spectrum. It is found that non-thermal nucleosynthesis could produces 6 Li at the level detected in metal poor halo stars (MPHSs), when the lifetime of the unstable particles is of the order ~ 108 − 1012 s depending on their initial abundance. We conclude that a combination of two different processes could explain the lithium isotopic abundances in MPHSs. First, a non-thermal cosmological nucleosynthesis associated with the radiative decay of unstable particles; and second, about the same degree of stellar depletion of both primordial lithium isotopic abundances. If MPHSs experience 6 Li depletion of factor much greater than ~ 3, the simple radiative decay process can not be the cause of large 6 Li abundances in MPHSs.

Constraints on the heavy elements production in inhomogeneous Big-Bang nucleosynthesis from light-element observations

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riou Nakamura ◽  
Masa-aki Hashimoto ◽  
Sin-ichiro Fujimoto ◽  
Nobuya Nishimura ◽  
Katsuhiko Sato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Light Element ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Heavy Elements ◽  
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

BIG BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS: AN UPDATE

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 409-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEITH A. OLIVE ◽  
SEAN T. SCULLY
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Light Element ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Effective Number ◽  
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ◽  
Element Abundances ◽  
The Standard Model

The current status of big bang nucleosynthesis is reviewed with an emphasis on the comparison between the observational determination of the light element abundances of D , 3 He , 4 He and 7 Li and the predictions from theory. In particular, we present new analyses for 4 He and 7 Li . Implications for physics beyond the standard model are also discussed. In addition, limits on the effective number of neutrino flavors are updated.

scholarly journals Limits on brane-world and particle dark radiation from big bang nucleosynthesis and the CMB

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (08) ◽  
pp. 1741007 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Sasankan ◽  
Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay ◽  
G. J. Mathews ◽  
M. Kusakabe
Keyword(s):  
Energy Density ◽  
Power Spectrum ◽  
Light Element ◽  
Reaction Rates ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Brane World ◽  
Expansion Rate ◽  
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ◽  
Dark Radiation ◽  
Element Abundances

The term dark radiation is used both to describe a noninteracting neutrino species and as a correction to the Friedmann Equation in the simplest five-dimensional (5D) RS-II brane-world cosmology. In this paper, we consider the constraints on both the meanings of dark radiation-based upon the newest results for light-element nuclear reaction rates, observed light-element abundances and the power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Adding dark radiation during big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) alters the Friedmann expansion rate causing the nuclear reactions to freeze out at a different temperature. This changes the final light element abundances at the end of BBN. Its influence on the CMB is to change the effective expansion rate at the surface of the last scattering. We find that the BBN constraint reduces the allowed range for both types of dark radiation at 10[Formula: see text]Mev to between [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] of the total background energy density at 10[Formula: see text]Mev. Combining this result with fits to the CMB power spectrum, produces different results for particle versus brane-world dark radiation. In the brane-world, the range decreases from [Formula: see text] to [Formula: see text]. Thus, we find that the ratio of dark radiation to the background total relativistic mass energy density [Formula: see text] is consistent with zero although there remains a very slight preference for a positive (rather than negative) contribution.

EFFECT OF NEGATIVELY-CHARGED MASSIVE PARTICLES ON BIG-BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS AND A SOLUTION TO THE LITHIUM PROBLEMS

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (17n20) ◽  
pp. 1668-1674
Author(s):  
MOTOHIKO KUSAKABE ◽  
TOSHITAKA KAJINO ◽  
RICHARD N. BOYD ◽  
TAKASHI YOSHIDA ◽  
GRANT J. MATHEWS
Keyword(s):  
Charged Particle ◽  
Nuclear Reactions ◽  
Charged Particles ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Light Nuclei ◽  
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis ◽  
Spectroscopic Observations ◽  
Halo Stars ◽  
Wmap Data ◽  
Ionization Processes

Spectroscopic observations of metal poor halo stars give an indication of a possible primordial plateau of 6 Li abundance as a function of metallicity similar to that for 7 Li . The inferred abundance of 6 Li is ~1000 times larger than that predicted by standard big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) for the baryon-to-photon ratio inferred from the WMAP data, and that of 7 Li is about 3 times smaller than the prediction. We study a possible solution to both the problems of underproduction of 6 Li and overproduction of 7 Li in BBN. This solution involves a hypothetical massive, negatively-charged particle that would bind to the light nuclei produced in BBN. The particle gets bound to the existing nuclei after the usual BBN, and a second epoch of nucleosynthesis can occur among nuclei bound to the particles. We numerically carry out a fully dynamical BBN calculation, simultaneously solving the recombination and ionization processes of negatively-charged particles by normal and particle-bound nuclei as well as many possible nuclear reactions among them. It is confirmed that BBN in the presence of these hypothetical particles can solve the two Li abundance problems simultaneously.

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