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Fine Tuning of Basic Forces through the Existence of Carbon-Based Life

The bulk of the carbon in our universe is produced in the triple-alpha process in helium-burning red giant stars. We calculated the change of the triple-alpha reaction rate in a microscopic twelve-nucleon model of the 12C nucleus and looked for the effects of minimal variations of the strengths of t...

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Autor principal: CERN. Geneva
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: CERN 2001
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/561127