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arxiv: astro-ph/0007419 · v2 · submitted 2000-07-27 · 🌌 astro-ph · gr-qc· hep-ph

Testing Standard and Degenerate Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with BOOMERanG and MAXIMA-1

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keywords degeneratestandardabundanceabundancesanalysisbackgroundbangboomerang
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We test different Big Bang Nucleosynthesis scenarios using the recent results on the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies provided by the BOOMERanG and MAXIMA-1 experiments versus the observed abundances of 4He, D and 7Li. The likelihood analysis, based on Bayesian approach, shows that, in the case of high deuterium abundance, Y_D=(2.0\pm0.5) 10^{-4}, both standard and degenerate BBN are inconsistent with the CMBR measurement at more than 3 \sigma. Assuming low deuterium abundance, Y_D=(3.4\pm0.3) 10^{-5}, the standard BBN model is still inconsistent with present observations at 2 \sigma level, while the degenerate BBN results to be compatible. Unless systematics effects will be found in nuclide abundances and/or in CMBR data analysis this result may be a signal in favour of new physics like a large chemical potential of the relic neutrino-antineutrino background.

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