Primordial nucleosynthesis and primoridal isocurvature baryon fluctuations
Recently, there has been interest in inflation-generated cosmological primordial isocurvature baryon fluctuation (PIB) models as a means to account for the large scale clustering of galaxies. However, the extension of the isocurvature fluctuations contained in such models to the mass scales of nucleosynthesis would imply large stochastic fluctuations in baryon-to-photon ratio during the epoch of primordial nucleosynthesis. We discuss constraints on the spectral index and rms amplitude of such fluctuations based upon the computed light element abundances. Our calculations include nuclear reaction networks in up to 40,000 zones in which stockastic fluctuations are spatially resolved. The effects of baryon diffusion among the fluctuations are also explicitly coupled and followed during nucleosynthesis. We confirm that the fluctuations must be significantly damped compared to a straight-forward extension of the cosmological PIB models.
- OSTI ID:
- 255494
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9510116-; ISSN 0003-0503; TRN: 96:015800
- Journal Information:
- Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 40, Issue 10; Conference: Fall meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society, Bloomington, IN (United States), 25-28 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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