The First Three Seconds: a Review of Possible Expansion Histories of the Early Universe

It is commonly assumed that the energy density of the Universe was dominated by radiation between reheating after inflation and the onset of matter domination 54,000 years later. While the abundance of light elements indicates that the Universe was radiation dominated during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis...

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Main Authors: Allahverdi, Rouzbeh, Amin, Mustafa A, Berlin, Asher, Bernal, Nicholas, Byrnes, Christian T, Delos, M Sten, Erickcek, Adrienne L, Escudero, Miguel, Figueroa, Daniel G, Freese, Katherine, Harada, Tomohiro, Hooper, Dan, Kaiser, David I, Karwal, Tanvi, Kohri, Kazunori, Krnjaci, Gordan, Lewicki, Marek, Lozanov, Kaloian D, Poulin, Vivian, Sinha, Kuver, Smith, Tristan L, Takahashi, Tomo, Tenkanen, Tommi, Unwin, James, Watson, Scottname
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Open Journal 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134155