Neutron diffusion and nucleosynthesis in the Universe with isothermal fluctuations produced by quark-hadron phase transition
- 15 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 39 (10) , 2893-2900
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.39.2893
Abstract
Nucleosynthesis in the Universe with isothermal baryon-density fluctuations is investigated. It is shown that neutron diffusion during nucleosynthesis plays an important role. Systematic calculations in the wide ranges of parameters suggest that =1 is marginally consistent with the light-element abundances (D, , , ) if the Hubble constant is as small as =45 km or the mean lifetime of neutrons is shorter than 860 sec. Moreover it is found that the abundances of CNO elements in the low-density and neutron-rich region are very small.
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