Neutron injection during primordial nucleosynthesis alleviates the primordial Li-7 problem

作者:Vasquez Daniel Albornoz*; Belikov Alexander; Coc Alain; Silk Joseph; Vangioni Elisabeth
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2012, 86(6): 063501.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.063501

摘要

We present a parametrized study of the effects of free thermal neutron injection on primordial nucleosynthesis, where both the rate and the time scale of injection are varied. This generic approach is found to yield a successful solution for reducing the Li-7 abundance without causing significant problems to other elemental abundances. Our analysis demonstrates that hadronic injection, possibly due to decays or annihilations of dark matter particles with a mass of about 1 to 30 GeV, provides a possible solution to an outstanding problem in the standard big bang model.

  • 出版日期2012-9-5