Hadronic decay of late-decaying particles and big-bang nucleosynthesis

By M. Kawasaki, K. Kohri, T. Moroi. 2004

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Abstract We study the big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) scenario with late-decaying exotic particles with lifetime longer than ∼1 s. With a late-decaying particle in the early universe, predictions of the standard BBN scenario can be significantly altered. Therefore, we derive constraints on its primordial abundance. We pay particular attention to hadronic decay modes of such particles. We see that the non-thermal production process of D, 3 He and 6 Li provides a stringent upper bound on the primordial abundance of late-decaying particles with hadronic branching ratio.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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