Primordial nucleosynthesis in higher dimensional cosmology

We investigate nucleosynthesis and element formation in the early universe in the framework of higher dimensional cosmology. For this purpose we utilize a previous solution of the present author, which may be termed as the generalized Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model. We find that temperature decays less rapidly in higher dimensional cosmology, which we believe may have nontrivial consequences \emph{vis-a-vis} primordial physics

Beam energy dependence of Coulomb-nuclear interference in the breakup of 11Be

Within the post-form distorted wave Born approximation wherein pure Coulomb, pure nuclear and their interference terms are treated consistently in a single setup we study the beam energy dependence of the Coulomb-nuclear interference terms in the breakup of 11Be on a medium mass 44Ti target. Our results suggest that the Coulomb-nuclear interference terms are dependent on the incident beam energy and can be as big as that of the individual Coulomb or nuclear terms depending on the angle and energy of the breakup fragments. We also calculate the relative energy spectra and one-neutron removal cross sections in the breakup of 11Be on a heavy 208Pb target at 69 MeV/nucleon for two different angular ranges of the projectile center of the mass scattering angle and compare them with recently available experimental data.Comment: 17 pages latex, 4 figure