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# Solution to Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis in Hybrid Axion Dark Matter Model

(Impact Factor: 6.02). 02/2012; 718(3). DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.007
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT Following a recent suggestion of axion cooling of photons between the
nucleosynthesis and recombination epochs in the Early Universe, we investigate
a hybrid model with both axions and relic supersymmetric particles. In this
model we demonstrate that the 7Li abundance can be consistent with observations
without destroying the important concordance of deuterium abundance.

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