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The 2024 BBN baryon abundance update
Nils Schöneberg
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We revisit the state of the light element abundances from big bang nucleosynthesis in early 2024 with particular focus on the derived baryon abundance. We find that the largest differences between the final baryon abundances are typically driven by the assumed Deuterium burning rates, characterized in this work by the underlying code. The rates from theoretical ab-initio calculations favor smaller baryon abundances, while experimentally-determined rates prefer higher abundances. Through robust marginalization over a wide range of nuclear rates, the recently released PRyMordial code allows for a conservative estimate of the baryon abundance at Ω_b h² = 0.02218 ±0.00055 (using PDG-recommended light element abundances) in ΛCDM and Ω_b h² = 0.02196 ±0.00063 when additional ultra-relativistic relics are considered (ΛCDM + N_(eff)). These additional relics themselves are constrained to ΔN_(eff) = -0.14 ±0.21 by light element abundances alone.
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