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arxiv: astro-ph/0312388 · v1 · submitted 2003-12-15 · 🌌 astro-ph · nucl-th

The Effect of Bound Dineutrons upon BBN

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keywords boundbindingdineutronhelium-4uponabsenceabundanceagreement
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We have examined the effects of a bound dineutron, n2, upon big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) as a function of its binding energy B_n2. We find a weakly bound dineutron has little impact but as B_n2 increases its presence begins to alter the flow of free nucleons to helium-4. Due to this disruption, and in the absence of changes to other binding energies or fundamental constants, BBN sets a reliable upper limit of B_n2 <~ 2.5 MeV in order to maintain the agreement with the observations of the primordial helium-4 mass fraction and D/H abundance.

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