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Primordial Nucleosynthesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J. Audouze

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Primordial nucleosynthesis which is responsible for the formation of the lightest elements (D, 3He, 4HE and 7Li) might be as important as the overall expansion of the Universe and the cosmic background radiation to prove the occurrence of a dense and hot phase for the Unvierse about 15 billion years ago. As recalled in many reviews (e.g. refs. 1, 2) the standard Big Bang nucleosynthesis leads to two important conclusions regarding (i) a limitation of the baryonic density such that the corresponding cosmological parameter ΩB ≤ 0.1; (ii) a limitation of the number of neutrino flavours to 3-4 consistent with the results concerning the widths of the Z0 and W± particles3.

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Transactions of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , 1988 , pp. 658 - 660
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Copyright © Kluwer 1988 

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