Constraints on Variation of the Weak Scale from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Physical Review D(2024)
摘要
Recently, the EMPRESS collaboration has included new data in the extraction
of the primordial He-4 abundance from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), resulting
in a determination that differs from the previous value and from theoretical
expectations. There have been several studies attempting to explain this
anomaly which involve variation of fundamental constants between the time of
BBN and the present. Since the Higgs vacuum expectation value (vev) is the only
dimensionful parameter of the Standard Model and it is already known to vary
during the electroweak phase transition, we consider the possibility that the
vev is slightly different during BBN compared to its present value. A
modification of the vev changes not only particle masses but also affects,
through mass thresholds, the QCD confinement scale. We use the recently
developed PRyMordial program to study this variation and its impact on the He-4
and deuterium abundances. We find that bounds on |dv/v| are approximately 0.01,
and that the EMPRESS result can be explained within 2 sigma if -0.03 < dv/v <
-0.01, but at the cost of worsening the current 2 sigma discrepancy in the
deuterium abundance to over 3 sigma.
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