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Electromagnetic Cascade in the Early Universe and its Application to the Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis

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arxiv astro-ph/9412055 v1 pith:GIYUYT73 submitted 1994-12-16 astro-ph hep-ph

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We investigate the electromagnetic cascade initiated by injection of very high energy photons in the early Universe and calculate the cascade spectrum by solving a set of Boltzmann equations numerically. In the calculation we take account of Compton scattering off the background electrons and pair creation off the background nucleons as well as photon-photon processes and inverse Compton scattering. We also apply our cascade spectrum to the big bang nucleosynthesis with photo-dissociation processes due to heavy unstable particles and obtain the constraint on their lifetime and abundance.

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