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Title: Stochastic isocurvature baryon fluctuations, baryon diffusion, and primordial nucleosynthesis

Abstract

We examine effects on primordial nucleosynthesis from a truly random, one-dimensional spatial distribution in the baryon-to-photon ratio ({eta}). We generate stochastic fluctuation spectra characterized by different spectral indices and rms fluctuation amplitudes. For the first time we explicitly calculate the effects of baryon diffusion on the nucleosynthesis yields of such stochastic fluctuations. We also consider the collapse instability of large mass scale inhomogeneities. Our results are generally applicable to any primordial mechanism producing fluctuations in {eta} which can be characterized by a spectral index. In particular, these results apply to primordial isocurvature baryon fluctuation (PIB) models. The amplitudes of fluctuations that are scale-invariant in baryon fluctuation (PIB) models. The amplitudes of fluctuations that are scale-invariant in baryon density are found to be severely constrained by primordial nucleosynthesis. However, when the {eta} distribution is characterized by decreasing fluctuation amplitudes with increasing length scale, surprisingly large fluctuation amplitudes on the baryon diffusion scale are allowed. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Astronomical Society}

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Research Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki (Finland)
  2. University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Livermore, California 94550 (United States)
  3. Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
530007
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Astrophysical Journal
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 479; Journal Issue: 1; Other Information: PBD: Apr 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
66 PHYSICS; COSMOLOGY; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; BARYONS; COSMIC PHOTONS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; FLUCTUATIONS; DIFFUSION; SPECTRAL DENSITY; ELEMENT ABUNDANCE

Citation Formats

Kurki-Suonio, H, Jedamzik, K, and Mathews, G J. Stochastic isocurvature baryon fluctuations, baryon diffusion, and primordial nucleosynthesis. United States: N. p., 1997. Web. doi:10.1086/303858.
Kurki-Suonio, H, Jedamzik, K, & Mathews, G J. Stochastic isocurvature baryon fluctuations, baryon diffusion, and primordial nucleosynthesis. United States. https://doi.org/10.1086/303858
Kurki-Suonio, H, Jedamzik, K, and Mathews, G J. 1997. "Stochastic isocurvature baryon fluctuations, baryon diffusion, and primordial nucleosynthesis". United States. https://doi.org/10.1086/303858.
@article{osti_530007,
title = {Stochastic isocurvature baryon fluctuations, baryon diffusion, and primordial nucleosynthesis},
author = {Kurki-Suonio, H and Jedamzik, K and Mathews, G J},
abstractNote = {We examine effects on primordial nucleosynthesis from a truly random, one-dimensional spatial distribution in the baryon-to-photon ratio ({eta}). We generate stochastic fluctuation spectra characterized by different spectral indices and rms fluctuation amplitudes. For the first time we explicitly calculate the effects of baryon diffusion on the nucleosynthesis yields of such stochastic fluctuations. We also consider the collapse instability of large mass scale inhomogeneities. Our results are generally applicable to any primordial mechanism producing fluctuations in {eta} which can be characterized by a spectral index. In particular, these results apply to primordial isocurvature baryon fluctuation (PIB) models. The amplitudes of fluctuations that are scale-invariant in baryon fluctuation (PIB) models. The amplitudes of fluctuations that are scale-invariant in baryon density are found to be severely constrained by primordial nucleosynthesis. However, when the {eta} distribution is characterized by decreasing fluctuation amplitudes with increasing length scale, surprisingly large fluctuation amplitudes on the baryon diffusion scale are allowed. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Astronomical Society}},
doi = {10.1086/303858},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/530007}, journal = {Astrophysical Journal},
number = 1,
volume = 479,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1997},
month = {Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1997}
}