Big-bang nucleosynthesis

A critical review is given of the current status of cosmological nucleosynthesis. In the framework of the Standard Model with 3 types of relativistic neutrinos, the baryon-to-photon ratio, $\eta$, corresponding to the inferred primordial abundances of deuterium and helium-4 is consistent with the in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fields, B, Molaro, P, Sarkar, S
Other Authors: Olive, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014