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Primordial Nucleosynthesis: from precision cosmology to fundamental physics
We present an up-to-date review of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). We discuss
the main improvements which have been achieved in the past two decades on the
overall theoretical framework, summarize the impact of new experimental results
on nuclear reaction rates, and critically re-examine the astrophysical
determinations of light nuclei abundances. We report then on how BBN can be
used as a powerful test of new physics, constraining a wide range of ideas and
theoretical models of fundamental interactions beyond the standard model of
strong and electroweak forces and Einstein's general relativity.Comment: 148 pages, 66 figures, revised version accepted by Physics Report