Effects of a torsion field on Big Bang nucleosynthesis
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In this paper it is investigated whether torsion, which arises naturally in most theories of quantum gravity, has observable implications for the Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Torsion can lead to spin flips amongst neutrinos thus turning them into sterile neutrinos. In the early Universe they can alter the helium abundance which is tightly constrained by observations. Here I calculate to what extent torsion of the string theory type leads to a disagreement with the Big Bang nucleosynthesis predictions. keywords: Big Bang nucleosynthesis – theories of gravitation – nonstandard neutrino physics 04.50.+h,14.60.St,98.80.Cq,98.80.Es Typeset using REVTEX ∗email: [email protected], phone: +49 89 3299 3245 1
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