The new hybrid BBN model with the photon cooling, X particle, and the primordial magnetic field
Author(s) -
Dai Yamazaki,
Motohiko Kusakabe,
Toshitaka Kajino,
Grant J. Mathews,
Myung-Ki Cheoun
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of modern physics e
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1793-6608
pISSN - 0218-3013
DOI - 10.1142/s0218301317410063
Subject(s) - physics , cosmic microwave background , big bang nucleosynthesis , photon , abundance of the chemical elements , astrophysics , halo , nucleosynthesis , particle physics , superpartner , stars , dark matter , quantum mechanics , anisotropy , galaxy
The Big Bang Nucleosynthesis theory accurately reproduces the abundances of light elements in the universes, except for the 7Li abundance. The calculated 7Li abundance with the baryon-to-photon ratio fixed by the observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is inconsistent with the observed lithium abundances on the surface of metal-poor halo stars, and this problem is called “7Li problem”. Previous studies proposed to resolve this 7Li problem include photon cooling (possibly via the Bose–Einstein condensation of a scalar particle), the decay of a long-lived X particle (possibly the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle), or an energy density of a primordial magnetic field (PMF). We review and analyze the results of these solutions both separately and in concert, and the constraint on the X particles and the PMF parameters from observed light-element abundances with a likelihood analysis. We can discover parameter ranges of the X particles which can solve the 7Li problem and constrain the energy density of the PMF.
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