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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 90, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.085018
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- Government of Canada through NSERC
- Province of Ontario through MEDT
- French state funds [ANR-10-LABX-63, ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02]
- ANR VACOUL [ANR-10-BLAN-0510]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-10-BLAN-0510] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
During big bang nucleosynthesis, any injection of extra neutrons around the time of the Be-7 formation, i.e. at a temperature of order T similar or equal to 50 keV, can reduce the predicted freeze-out amount of Be-7 + Li-7 that otherwise remains in sharp contradiction with the Spite plateau value inferred from the observations of Pop II stars. However, the growing confidence in the primordial D/H determinations puts a strong constraint on any such scenario. We address this issue in detail, analyzing different temporal patterns of neutron injection, such as decay, annihilation, resonant annihilation, and oscillation between mirror and standard model world neutrons. For this latter case, we derive the realistic injection pattern taking into account thermal effects (damping and refraction) in the primordial plasma. If the extra-neutron supply is the sole nonstandard mechanism operating during the big bang nucleosynthesis, the suppression of lithium abundance below Li/H <= 1.9 x 10(-10) always leads to the overproduction of deuterium, D/H >= 3.6 x 10(-5), well outside the error bars suggested by recent observations.
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