Nuclear reaction uncertainties, massive gravitino decays and the cosmological lithium problem

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Cyburt, Richard H ^a   Ellis, John ^b   Fields, Brian D ^c   Luo, Feng ^d   Olive, Keith A ^d,e   Spanos, Vassilis C ^f  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Big bang nucleosynthesis; Dark matter theory; Supersymmetry and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449307835     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/10/032     Document Type: Article

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