Big-Bang nucleosynthesis (Particle Data Group mini-review)

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, Sarkar, S
Format: Journal article
Published: 2006