The Baryon Density through the (Cosmolog
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Gary Steigman
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The light element abundances probe the baryon density of the universe within a few minutes of the Big Bang. Of these relics from the earliest universe, deuterium is the baryometer of choice. By comparing its primordial abundance inferred from observations with that predicted by Big Bang Nucleosynthe