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The Road to Precision Cosmology
Michael S. Turner
The past 50 years has seen cosmology go from a field known for the errors being in the exponents to precision science. The transformation, powered by ideas, technology, a paradigm…
Understanding BBN: the physics and its history
Michael S. Turner, KICP/UChicago, The Kavli Foundation
Big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), today a pillar of modern cosmology, began with the trailblazing 1948 paper of Alpher, Bethe and Gamow. In it, they proposed non-equilibrium nuclear…
The third cosmological paradigm
Michael S. Turner
I begin by briefly discussing the first two cosmological paradigms, the hot big-bang model and CDM. In discussing the third paradigm, I focus on the issues it must address, what…
Diffusion-limited Relic Particle Production
Robert J. Scherrer, Michael S. Turner
We examine the thermal evolution of particle number densities in the early universe when the particles have a finite diffusion length. Assuming that annihilations are impossible wh…
Nuclear Kinetic Equilibrium During Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Samuel D. McDermott, Michael S. Turner
Sasankan et al, have recently claimed that there are significant deviations in the phase-space distributions of the kinetic energies of nuclei from the Maxwell-Boltzmann form usual…
Dibaryons cannot be the dark matter
Edward W. Kolb, Michael S. Turner
The hypothetical flavor-singlet dibaryon state with strangeness has been discussed as a dark-matter candidate capable of explaining the curious 5-to-1 ratio of the…