Cosmic microwave background as a thermal gas of SU(2) photons: implications for the high-z cosmological model and the value of H0
Presently, we are facing a tension in the most basic cosmological parameter, the Hubble constant . This tension arises when fitting the Lambda-cold-dark-matter model (CDM) to the high-precision temperature-temperature (TT) power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and to local cosmolog...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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16 October 2017
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Advances in high energy physics
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| ISSN: | 1687-7365 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ahep/2017/7525121/
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| Author Notes: | Steffen Hahn and Ralf Hofmann |
| Summary: | Presently, we are facing a tension in the most basic cosmological parameter, the Hubble constant . This tension arises when fitting the Lambda-cold-dark-matter model (CDM) to the high-precision temperature-temperature (TT) power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and to local cosmological observations. We propose a resolution of this problem by postulating that the thermal photon gas of the CMB obeys an SU() rather than U() gauge principle, suggesting a high- cosmological model which is void of dark-matter. Observationally, we rely on precise low-frequency intensity measurements in the CMB spectrum and on a recent model independent (low-) extraction of the relation between the comoving sound horizon at the end of the baryon drag epoch and (). We point out that the commonly employed condition for baryon-velocity freeze-out is imprecise, judged by a careful inspection of the formal solution to the associated Euler equation. As a consequence, the above-mentioned tension actually transforms into a discrepancy. To make contact with successful low- CDM cosmology we propose an interpolation based on percolated/depercolated vortices of a Planck-scale axion condensate. For a first consistency test of such an all- model we compute the angular scale of the sound horizon at photon decoupling. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 14.05.2018 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1687-7365 |