What is the current consensus on 7Li abundances and key research papers?

[Kea]

To the experts

What are a couple of recommended papers on 7Li abundances? I have had a quick look at Steigman, and he seems to conclude that the problem might well be in the nuclear physics. What is the current consensus?

Cheers
Kea

 

[Chronos]

Speculative, IMO Kea. Food for thought:

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401008
Updated Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis compared to WMAP results

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603817
Inhomogeneous Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Revisited

 

[Kea]

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603817
Inhomogeneous Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Revisited

Thanks, Chronos. This paper seems to get 7Li concordance (for WMAP3) with a "depletion factor for stellar processes". That doesn't sound very convincing to me...unless we expect a large depletion factor to arise this way?

 

[Chronos]

Yep, it wasn't terribly convincing to me either Kea. Hence, 'speculative' remains the word of the day. It also doesn't appear a huge number of people are clammoring for collider/telescope time to resolve this mystery. Since I have too much free time, I will attempt to explore this a bit deeper if desired.