Primordial nucleosynthesis with varying fundamental constants: A semianalytical approach

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 637, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 28-52

  Landau, Susana J ^a,b,c   Mosquera, Mercedes E ^a,c   Vucetich, Hector ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cosmological parameters; Early universe; Nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644503198     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/431417     Document Type: Article

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