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A larger increases the deuterium fraction at fixed temperature, so the bottleneck ends at a higher temperature and earlier time. With weak decoupling unchanged, fewer free neutrons then beta-decay before nuclear reactions bind them. Since primordial helium production is neutron-limited, the baryon-density effect on primordial helium makes larger than the standard value.

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