Catalyzed Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the properties of charged relics in the early universe

The existence of charged electroweak-scale particles in the early universe can drastically affect the evolution of elemental abundances. Through the formation of Coulombic bound states with light nuclei, these exotic relic particles (hereafter referred to as X–) act to catalyze nuclear reactions by...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koopmans, Kristen Alanna
Other Authors: Pospelov, Maxim
Language:English
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Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/207