Constraining The Primordial Lithium Abundance: New Cross Section Measurement Of The Be-7 + N Reactions Updates The Total Be-7 Destruction Rate
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS(2021)
摘要
The cosmological lithium problem (CLP) stems from the outstanding discrepancy between theoretical predictions and astronomical observations of primordial lithium abundances. For the radiogenic production of Li-7, Be-7 plays a pivotal role in the Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). Nevertheless, the data for neutron-induced Be-7 destruction processes were still sparse, and especially lacked information on the contributions of transitions to the Li-7 excited states. In this work, we have determined the Be-7 (n,p(0))(7) Li, Be-7 (n,p(1))(7) Li*, and Be-7 (n,alpha)(4) R-matrix fit, providing an improved uncertainty evaluation of the (n,p(0)) (n,p(1)) (n,p(0)) (n,p(1)) PRIMAT. As a consequence, the present nuclear-physics data offers a reduction of the predicted Li-7 abundance by about one-tenth, which would impose a stricter constraint on BBN and head us in the correct direction to the CLP solution.
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