The abundance of primordial deuterium formed after Big Bang Nucleosynthesis has been measured to percent-level precision. Predictions for the primordial deuterium abundance have achieved similar precision, but different teams have reported different central values, sometimes resulting in a mild (~2sigma) disagreement with measurement. I will introduce a new method to predict the primordial deuterium abundance using Gaussian Processes, which is robust against analysis choices like model selection, dataset selection, and theory prior. I will illustrate why different groups have found different results, and briefly discuss the new physics implications of these findings.
Wednesday
14 Jan/26
11:30
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12:30
(Europe/Zurich)
A hint for new physics from primordial deuterium
Where:
4/2-011 at CERN