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基于近期氦丰度测量的精细结构常数变化

Variation of the fine structure constant in the light of recent helium abundance measurement

Osamu Seto, Tomo Takahashi, Yo Toda

AI总结:

本文提出用大爆炸核合成期间精细结构常数α略小于当前值来解释EMPRESS较低的氦-4丰度测量结果,并给出约束范围,表明无需引入非标准中微子种类数或轻子不对称性。

摘要:

我们指出,EMPRESS近期对原初氦-4($^4$He)丰度的测量结果——该结果报告的$^4$He丰度低于其他测量——可以通过假设精细结构常数$α$在大爆炸核合成(BBN)期间随时间变化且略小于当前值来很好地拟合。我们发现,EMPRESS结果与氘丰度测量相结合表明$-2.6\% <Δα/α<-1.4 \%$(68\%置信水平),其中$Δα$是$α$在BBN时期与当前时期的值之差,而其他先前的$^4$He丰度数据则给出$-1.2\% <Δα/α<0.4 \%$(68\%置信水平)。我们还在允许有效中微子种类数和轻子不对称性——它们是EMPRESS结果的其他典型解释——变化的框架中研究了其效应。一旦采用较小的$α$,EMPRESS结果就可以在不假设有效中微子种类数和轻子不对称性取任何非标准值的情况下得到解释。

英文摘要:

We point out that the recent result of primordial helium-4 ($^4$He) abundance measurement by EMPRESS, which has reported a smaller $^4$He abundance than other measurements, can be well fitted by assuming a time-variation of the fine structure constant $α$ which is slightly smaller than the present value during big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). We find that the EMPRESS result in combination with deuterium abundance measurement indicates $-2.6\% <Δα/α<-1.4 \%$ (68\% C.L.) where $Δα$ is the difference between the values of $α$ at the BBN and present epochs, while $-1.2\% <Δα/α<0.4 \%$ (68\% C.L.) is obtained from other previous $^4$He abundance data. We also investigate its effects in the framework where the effective number of neutrino species and the lepton asymmetry, which are other typical interpretations of the EMPRESS result, are allowed to vary. Once a smaller $α$ is adopted, the EMPRESS result can be explained without assuming any non-standard values for the effective number of neutrino species and lepton asymmetry.

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