Nucleosynthesis and the time dependence of fundamental couplings

Bruce A. Campbell; Keith A. Olive

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(94)01652-S

Nucleosynthesis and the time dependence of fundamental couplings

Bruce A. Campbell, Keith A. Olive

Physics and Astronomy (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

We consider the effects of the time dependence of couplings due to their dependence on a dilaton field, as occurs in superstring theory, as well as in gravity theories of the Jordan-Brans-Dicke type. Because the scale parameters of couplings set by dimensional transmutation depend exponentially on the dilaton vev, we may obtain stringent limits on the shift of the dilaton from the requirement that the induced shift in the couplings not vitiate the successful calculations of element abundances for big-bang nucleosynthesis. These limits can be substantially stronger than those obtained directly from the dilaton-induced change in the gravitational coupling.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	429-434
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	345
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(94)01652-S
State	Published - Feb 23 1995

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We would like to tha.>L R. Madden for comment:, on the manuscript. This work was supported in part by the Natural Scrences and Engineering Research Councir cf Canada and by DOE grant DE-FCl02-94ER40823.

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