Brian Fields: Publications Since 1996

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• Primordial Nucleosynthesis
• Large Scale Structure Formation
• Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays, and Lithium, Beryllium, & Boron
• Dark Matter
• Supernovae and Astrobiology
• Galactic Evolution
• Geoparticle Physics

• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis in the New Cosmology

  Brian D. Fields

  European Physical Journal A Supplement 1 27, 3-14 (2006)

  published version: DOI 10.1140/epja/i2006-08-001-2



• Probing Primordial and Pre-Galactic Lithium with High Velocity Clouds

  Tijana Prodanovic and Brian D. Fields

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 661, L115-118 (2004)

  preprint: astro-ph/0412238; published version: ApJ Lett



• New BBN limits on Physics Beyond the Standard Model from ⁴He

  Richard H. Cyburt, Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive, and Evan Skillman

  Astroparticle Physics 23, 313-323 (2005)

  preprint: astro-ph/0408033; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2005.01.005



• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

  Brian D. Fields and Keith A. Olive

  Nuclear Physics A 777, 208-225 (2004)

  published version: Nuclear Physics A online



• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

  Brian D. Fields and Subir Sarkar

  Mini-Review in the Particle Data Group's Review of Particle Properties
  S. Eidelman et al (Particle Data Group), Phys. Lett. B592 (2004) 1

  preprint: astro-ph/0406663; PDG version: pdf file



• Solar Neutrino Constraints on the BBN Production of Li

  Richard H. Cyburt, Brian D. Fields, and Keith A. Olive

  Physical Review D (2004) 69, 123519

  preprint: astro-ph/0312629; PRD online



• Cosmic Birth Rite

  Brian D. Fields

  New Scientist, Feb. 14-20, 36 (2004)



• Primordial Nucleosynthesis in Light of WMAP

  Richard H. Cyburt, Brian D. Fields, and Keith A. Olive

  Physics Letters B 567, 227-234 (2003)

  preprint: astro-ph/0302431; published version: Physics Letters B



• On the Baryometric Status of ³He

  Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam, Keith A. Olive, Brian D. Fields, and Michel Cassé

  The Astrophysical Journal 585, 611-616 (2002)

  preprint: astro-ph/0207583 published version: ApJ Online



• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

  Brian D. Fields and Subir Sarkar

  Mini-Review in the Particle Data Group's Review of Particle Properties
  K. Hagiwara et al, Phys. Rev. D 66, 010001 (2002)

  online review here



• A Census of Cosmic Matter

  Brian D. Fields

  Science 294, 529 (2001)

  published version: Science online



• Primordial Nucleosynthesis with CMB Inputs: Probing the Early Universe and Light Element Astrophysics

  Richard H. Cyburt, Brian D. Fields, and Keith A. Olive

  Astroparticle Phys. 17, 87-100, (2002)

  preprint: astro-ph/0105397; published version: Astroparticle Physics Online (requires site licence)



• The NACRE Thermonuclear Reaction Compilation and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

  Richard H. Cyburt, Brian D. Fields, and Keith A. Olive

  New Astronomy 6, 215-238 (2001)

  preprint: astro-ph/0102179; published version: New Astronomy Online (requires site licence)



• Primordial Lithium and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

  S.G. Ryan, T.C. Beers, K.A. Olive, B.D. Fields, and J.E. Norris

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 530, L57 (2000)

  preprint: astro-ph/9905211; published version: ApJ Online



• LiBeB and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

  Keith A. Olive and Brian D. Fields

  PASP, in press (1999)

  preprint: astro-ph/9902297



• Nucleosynthesis Limits on the Mass of Long Lived Tau and Muon Neutrinos

  Brian D. Fields, Kimmo Kainulainen, and Keith A. Olive

  Astroparticle Phys. 6 169-186 (1997)

  preprint: hep-ph/9512321



• Model Independent Predictions of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis from ⁴He and ⁷Li: Consistency and Implications

  Brian D. Fields, Kimmo Kainulainen, Keith A. Olive, and David Thomas

  New Astronomy 1 77-96 (1996)

  preprint: astro-ph/9603009



• Model-Independent Predictions of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

  Brian D. Fields and Keith A. Olive

  Physics Letters B 368, 103-111 (1996)

  preprint: hep-ph/9508344

Large Scale Structure Formation

• An Analytical Model for the Population of Cosmic Accretion Shocks: The Effect of Environment

  Vasiliki Pavlidou and Brian D. Fields

  Physical Review D submitted (2005)

  preprint: astro-ph/04504485



• Double Distribution of Dark Matter Halos With Respect to Mass and Local Overdensity

  Vasiliki Pavlidou and Brian D. Fields

  Physical Review D (2005), 71, 043510

  preprint: astro-ph/0410338; PRD Online

Cosmic Rays, Gamma Rays, and Lithium, Beryllium, & Boron

• Constraints on Galactic populations of gamma-ray emitters from the unidentified EGRET sources

  J. M. Siegal-Gaskins, V. Pavlidou, A. V. Olinto, C. Brown, B. D. Fields

  JCAP submitted (2007)

  preprint: arXiv:0710.0874;



• Unresolved Unidentified Source Contribution to the Gamma-ray Background

  V. Pavlidou, J. M. Siegal-Gaskins, B. D. Fields, A. V. Olinto, C. Brown

  The Astrophysical Journal submitted (2007)

  preprint: arXiv:0710.0619;



• Cosmological Cosmic Rays: Sharpening the Lithium Problem

  Tijana Prodanovic and Brian D. Fields

  Physical Review D in press (2007)

  preprint: arXiv:0709.3300;



• Diffuse Gamma Rays from the Galactic Plane: Probing the "GeV Excess" and Identifying the "TeV Excess"

  Tijana Prodanovic, Brian D. Fields, and John F. Beacom

  Astroparticle Physics 27, 10-20 (2007)

  preprint: astro-ph/0603618; doi: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2006.08.007



• Can Galactic Cosmic Rays Account for Solar ⁶Li Without Overproducing Gamma Rays?

  Tijana Prodanovic and Brian D. Fields

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 645, 125-128 (2006)

  preprint: astro-ph/0605675; published version: ApJ Online



• Implications of a new temperature scale for halo dwarfs on LiBeB and chemical evolution

  Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive, and Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam

  The Astrophysical Journal 623 1083-1091 (2005)

  preprint: astro-ph/0411728;



• Lithium-6 and Gamma Rays: Complementary Constraints on Cosmic-Ray History

  Brian D. Fields and Tijana Prodanovic

  The Astrophysical Journal 623, 877-888 (2005)

  preprint: astro-ph/0407314; published version: ApJ Online



• The Pionic Contribution to Diffuse Gamma Rays: Upper Limits

  Tijana Prodanovic and Brian D. Fields

  Astroparticle Physics 21, 627-635 (2004)

  preprint: astro-ph/0403300;



• On Non-Primoridal Deuterium Production by Accelerated Particles

  Tijana Prodanovic and Brian D. Fields

  The Astrophysical Journal 597, 48-56 (2003)

  preprint: astro-ph/0307183; ApJ Online



• The Guaranteed Gamma-Ray Background

  Vasiliki Pavlidou and Brian D. Fields

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 575, 5-8 (2002).

  preprint: astro-ph/0207253 published version: ApJ Online



• Production of Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron by Hypernovae

  Brian D. Fields, Frederic Daigne, Michel Cassé,and Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam

  The Astrophysical Journal, (2002) in press

  preprint: astro-ph/0107492



• Diffuse Gamma-Rays From Local Group Galaxies

  Vasiliki Pavlidou and Brian D. Fields

  The Astrophysical Journal, 558, 63-71 (2001)

  preprint: astro-ph/0105207 published version: ApJ Online



• Standard Cosmic Ray Energetics and Light Element Production

  Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive, Michel Cassé, and Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam

  Astronomy & Astrophysics, 370, 623-634 (2001)

  preprint: astro-ph/0010121 published version: A&A Online



• Testing Spallation Processes With Beryllium and Boron

  Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive, Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam, and Michel Cassé

  The Astrophysical Journal, 540, 930-945 (2000)

  preprint: astro-ph/9911320; published version: ApJ Online



• The Galactic Evolution of Beryllium and Boron

  Brian D. Fields and Keith A. Olive

  PASP, in press (1999)

  preprint: astro-ph/9903367



• The Evolution of ⁶Li in Standard Cosmic-Ray Nucleosynthesis

  Brian D. Fields and Keith A. Olive

  New Astronomy 4, 255 (1999)

  preprint: astro-ph/9811183; published version: New Astronomy Online



• The Revival of Galactic Cosmic Ray Nucleosynthesis?

  Brian D. Fields and Keith A. Olive

  The Astrophysical Journal, 516, 797 (1999)

  preprint: astro-ph/9809277; publised version: ApJ Online



• Limits on the Boron Isotopic Ratio in HD 76932

  L. M. Rebull, D. K. Duncan, S. Johansson, J. Thorburn, and B. Fields

  The Astrophysical Journal 507, 387 (1998)

  preprint: astro-ph/9807126; published version: ApJ Online



• LiBeB Production by Nuclei and Neutrinos

  Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam, Michel Cassé, Brian D. Fields, and Keith A. Olive

  The Astrophysical Journal 468, 199 (1996)

  preprint: astro-ph/9512034; ADS entry



• Nuclear and Gamma-Ray Production by Supernova Ejecta

  Brian D. Fields, Michel Cassé, Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam, and Ken'ichi Nomoto

  The Astrophysical Journal, 462 276 (1996)

  preprint: astro-ph/9601032

Dark Matter

• Bound-State Effects on Light-Element Abundances in Gravitino Dark Matter Scenarios

  Richard H. Cyburt, John Ellis, Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive, Vassilis C. Spanos

  preprint: astro-ph/0608562



• Updated Nucleosynthesis Constraints on Unstable Relic Particles

  Richard H. Cyburt, John Ellis, Brian D. Fields, and Keith A. Olive

  Physical Review D (2003), 67, 103521

  preprint: astro-ph/0211258; published version: PRD online



• Constraining Strong Baryon-Dark Matter Interactions with Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Cosmic Rays

  Richard H. Cyburt, Brian D. Fields, Vasiliki Pavlidou, and Benjamin D. Wandelt

  Physical Review D 65, 123503 (2002)

  preprint: astro-ph/0203240; published version: PRD online



• Chemical Abundance Constraints on White Dwarfs as Halo Dark Matter

  Brian D. Fields, Katherine Freese, and David S. Graff

  The Astrophysical Journal 534, 265-276 (2000)

  preprint: astro-ph/9904291; published version: ApJ Online



• Massive Compact Halo Objects Viewed from a Cosmological Perspective:
  Contribution to the Baryonic Mass Density of the Universe

  Brian D. Fields, Katherine Freese, and David S. Graff

  New Astronomy 3, 347 (1998)

  preprint: astro-ph/9804232; published version: New Astronomy Online (requires site licence)



• Halo White Dwarfs and the Hot Intergalactic Medium

  Brian D. Fields, Grant J. Mathews, and David N. Schramm

  The Astrophysical Journal 483, 625 (1997)

  preprint: astro-ph/9604095; published version: ApJ Online

Supernovae and Astrobiology

• Supernova Collisions with the Heliosphere

  Brian D. Fields, Themis Athanassiadou, and Scott R. Johnson

  The Astrophysical Journal in press (2007)



• Superluminal Supernovae: No Threat From Eta Carinae

  Brian C. Thomas, Adrian L. Melott, Brian D. Fields, and Barbara J. Anthony-Twarog

  Astrobiology in press (2007)

  preprint: arXiv:0705.4274;



• Radioactive Probes of the Supernova-Contaminated Solar Nebula: The Sun was Born in a Cluster

  Leslie W. Looney, John J. Tobin, and Brian D. Fields

  The Astrophysical Journal 652, 1755-1762 (2006)

  preprint: astro-ph/0608411; published version: ApJ online



• Deep-Ocean Crusts as Telescopes: Using Live Radioisotopes to Probe Supernova Nucleosynthesis

  Brian D. Fields, Kathrin A. Hochmuth, and John Ellis

  The Astrophysical Journal 621, 902-907 (2005)

  preprint: astro-ph/0410525 published version: ApJ Online



• Live radioisotopes as signatures of nearby supernovae

  Brian D. Fields

  New Astronomy Reviews 48, 119-123 (2004)

  published version: Science Direct



• Discovery of an old, nearby, and overlooked supernova remnant centered on the southern constellation Antlia Pneumatica

  Peter McCullough, Brian D. Fields, and Vasiliki Pavlidou

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 576, L41-L44 (2002)

  published version: ApJL Online



• A Peculiar Linear Radio Feature in the Supernova Remnant N206

  Robert J. Klinger, John R. Dickel, Brian D. Fields, and Douglas K. Milne

  The Astronomical Journal (2002) in press

  preprint: astro-ph/0204415



• On Deep-Ocean ⁶⁰Fe as a Fossil of a Near-Earth Supernova

  Brian D. Fields and John Ellis

  New Astronomy, 4, 419 (1999)

  preprint: astro-ph/9811457 published version: New Astronomy Online (requires site licence)



• Geological Isotope Anomalies as Signatures of Nearby Supernovae

  John Ellis, Brian D. Fields, and David N. Schramm

  The Astrophysical Journal 470, 1227 (1996)

  preprint: astro-ph/9605128; ADS entry

Galactic Chemical Evolution

• On the Possible Sources of D/H Dispersion at High Redshift

  Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive, Joseph Silk, Michel Casse, and Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam

  The Astrophysical Journal 563, 653-66 (2001)

  preprint: astro-ph/0107389; published version: ApJ Online



• A Simple Model for r-Process Scatter and Halo Evolution

  Brian D. Fields, James W. Truran, and John J. Cowan

  The Astrophysical Journal 575, 845-854 (2002)

  preprint: astro-ph/0103083; published version: ApJ Online



• Testing the Relation Between the Local and Cosmic Star Formation Histories

  Brian D. Fields

  The Astrophysical Journal 515, 603 (1999)

  preprint: astro-ph/9806186; published version: ApJ Online



• On the Evolution of Helium in Blue Compact Galaxies

  Brian D. Fields and Keith A. Olive

  The Astrophysical Journal 506, 177 (1998)

  preprint: astro-ph/9803297; published version: ApJ Online



• On the Evolution of the Light Elements I. D, ³He, and ⁴He

  Brian D. Fields

  The Astrophysical Journal 456, 478 (1996)

  preprint: astro-ph/9512044

Terrestrial Neutrinos

• Imaging the Earth's Interior: the Angular Distribution of Terrestrial Neutrinos

  Brian D. Fields and Kathrin A. Hochmuth

  Physical Review D submitted (2004)

  preprint: hep-ph/0406001

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