Primordial nucleosynthesis with a varying fine structure constant: An improved estimate

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Lopez, Robert E ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; BARYON; CALCULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY; ENTROPY; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037105269     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.063507     Document Type: Article

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