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Chiral Selection, Isotopic Abundance Shifts, and Autocatalysis of Meteoritic Amino Acids
Michael A. Famiano, Richard N. Boyd, Takashi Onaka +1
The discovery of amino acids in meteorites has presented two clues to the origin of their processing subsequent to their formation: a slight preference for left-handedness in some…
Explaining the Variations in Isotopic Ratios in Meteoritic Amino Acids
Michael A. Famiano, Richard N. Boyd, Toshitaka Kajino +4
Measurements of the isotopic abundances in meteoritic amino acids have found enhancements of H/H, N/N, and C/C in the amino acids in the meteorites…
Amino Acid Chiral Selection Via Weak Interactions in Stellar Environments: Implications for the Origin of Life
M. A. Famiano, R. N. Boyd, T. Kajino +2
Magnetochiral phenomena may be responsible for the selection of chiral states of biomolecules in meteoric environments. For example, the Supernova Amino Acid Processing (SNAAP) Mod…
Sites That Can Produce Left-Handed Amino Acids in the Supernova Neutrino Amino Acid Processing Model
Richard N. Boyd, Michael A. Famiano, Takashi Onaka +1
The Supernova Neutrino Amino Acid Processing model, which uses electron anti-neutrinos and the magnetic field from a source object such as a supernova to selectively destroy one am…
New Nuclear Physics for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Richard N. Boyd, Carl R. Brune, George M. Fuller +1
We discuss nuclear reactions which could play a role in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). Most of these reactions involve lithium and beryllium isotopes and the rates for some of the…
A Simultaneous Solution to the ^6Li and ^7Li Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Problems from a Long-Lived Negatively-Charged Leptonic Particle
Motohiko Kusakabe, Toshitaka Kajino, Richard N. Boyd +2
The Li abundance observed in metal poor halo stars exhibits a plateau similar to that for Li suggesting a primordial origin. However, the observed abundance of Li is a…