Fine-tunings In Nucleosynthesis And The Emergence Of Life: Status And Perspectives

We discuss the fine-tunings of nuclear reactions in the Big Bang and in stars and draw some conclusions on the emergence of the light elements and the life-relevant elements carbon and oxygen.

We also stress how to improve these calculations in the future.

This requires a concerted effort of different communities, especially in nuclear reaction theory, lattice QCD for few-nucleon systems, stellar evolution calculations, particle physics and philosophy.

Ulf-G. Meißner, Bernard Ch. Metsch, Helen Meyer

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, invited article for the “Invited Viewpoints and Perspectives” section of Eur. Phys. J. A
Subjects: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); High Energy Physics – Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics – Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics – Theory (hep-th)
Cite as: arXiv:2503.15162 [nucl-th] (or arXiv:2503.15162v1 [nucl-th] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.15162
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From: Ulf-G. Meißner
[v1] Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:42:18 UTC (159 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15162
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