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Cosmic Microwave Background as a Thermal Gas of SU(2) Photons : Implications for the High$-z$ Cosmological Model and the Value of H₀

Hahn, Steffen 1; Hofmann, Ralf
1 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

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. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000076832
Veröffentlicht am 23.11.2017
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1155/2017/7525121
Web of Science
Zitationen: 2
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Kernphysik (IKP)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2017
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1687-7357, 1687-7365
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-768320
KITopen-ID: 1000076832
HGF-Programm 51.03.06 (POF III, LK 01) Theoretische Astroteilchenphysik
Erschienen in Advances in high energy physics
Verlag Hindawi
Band 2017
Seiten 1–9
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