Cosmological variation of the deuteron binding energy, strong interaction, and quark masses from big bang nucleosynthesis

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 9-

  Dmitriev, V F ^a,b   Flambaum, V V ^a,c   Webb, J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BUDKER INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

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EID: 2342435539     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.063506     Document Type: Article

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