Nucleon Mass Corrections to the p leftrightarrow n Rates During Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
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✦ hep-ph
astro-ph
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bangcorrectionsdeltamassnucleonnucleosynthesisratesabundance
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The thermal rates for converting neutrons to protons, and vice versa, are calculated, including corrections of order 1 MeV divided by a nucleon mass. The results imply that the primodial helium abundance predicted for big bang nucleosynthesis has been systematically underestimated by about $\delta Y_4 = 0.0012$, i.e., $\delta Y_4 / Y_4 \approx .005$.
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