Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Particle Physics

Recent years have brought an unprecedented improvement in the quality of predictions in the abundances of light elements due to the improved quality of observations and largely due to a precise determination of baryon-to-photon abundance ratio via the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background. Still, several problems remain, notably those related to the abundance of Li7 and Li6 elements, which might suggest non-standard cosmological or particle physics influencing the BBN.

The workshop is designed to bring together researchers who work on the BBN calculations in the standard framework as well as in the presence of non-standard particle physics.

Participants:

Richard Cyburt, Michigan State University
Brian Fields, University of  Illinois, Urbana
Victor Flambaum, University of New South Wales
Koichi Hamaguchi, University of Tokyo
Karsten Jedamzik, Montpellier University 
Masayasu Kamimura, Kyushu University
Manoj Kaplinghat, University of California, Irvine
Kazunori Kohri, Lancaster University
Motohiko Kusakabe, University of Tokyo
Shunji Matsuura, Perimeter Institute 
Keith Olive, University of Minnesota
Maxim Pospelov, University of Victoria & Perimeter Institute
Josef Pradler, MPI, Munich 
Jonathan Sharman, University of Victoria
Frank Steffen, MPI, Munich 
Mark Wyman, Perimeter Institute