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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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CERN
2001
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| Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/561127 |