Possible evidence for "dark radiation" from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Data

Abstract

We address the emerging discrepancy between the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis data and standard cosmology, which asks for a bit longer evolution time. If this effect is real, one possible implication (in a framework of brane cosmology model) is that there is a ``dark radiation'' component which is negative and makes few percents of ordinary matter density. If so, all scales of this model can be fixed, provided brane-to-bulk leakage problem is solved.

We found that references to some nhumbers from unpublished ref.3 in v1 lead to confusion of some readers: we decided to removed those in v2