The cosmological lithium problem
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 00:39
in Physics & Chemistry
An international research group has tried to find a solution to one of the unknowns in the current description of the Big Bang. Different nuclear reactions responsible for the creation and destruction of atomic nuclei in nucleosynthesis during the Big Bang are crucial in determining the primordial abundance of lithium, the third (and last) chemical element formed during the very early phase of the creation of the universe.