What Explains the Helium-4 Abundance Beyond Stellar Nucleosynthesis?

TrickyDicky · Dec 22, 2010

Hi, I would like to know the standard explanation about stellar nucleosynthesis of Helium-4 not being able to account for the observed He-4 abundance.
Thanks

phyzguy · Dec 22, 2010

Most of the He-4 in the universe was produced during Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis. Here are a couple of reefrences:

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9407006v2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis

harcel · Dec 27, 2010

The books by Clayton and Pagel are very good for if you wnat to know how it gets created and destroyed in the Universe.

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