Temporal variation of coupling constants and nucleosynthesis

Abstract

We investigate the triple-alpha process and the Oklo phenomenon to obtain constraints on possible cosmological time variations of fundamental constants. Specifically we study cosmological temporal constraints for the fine structure constant and nucleon and meson masses.

4 pages. Proceedings of the Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics Conference, Debrecen, Hungary, September 30 - October 3, 2002. To be published in Nuc. Phys. A

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