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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 124, 期 16, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.161301
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- Center for Particle Cosmology
- U.S. Department of Energy (HEP) [de-sc0013528]
- NASA ATP [NNH17ZDA001N]
The Hubble tension can be significantly eased if there is an early component of dark energy that becomes active around the time of matter-radiation equality. Early dark energy models suffer from a coincidence problem-the physics of matter-radiation equality and early dark energy arc completely disconnected, so some degree of fine-tuning is needed in order for them to occur nearly simultaneously. In this Letter, we propose a natural explanation for this coincidence. If the early dark energy scalar couples to neutrinos then it receives a large injection of energy around the time that neutrinos become nonrelativistic. This is precisely when their temperature is of order of their mass, which, coincidentally, occurs around the time of matter-radiation equality. Neutrino decoupling therefore provides a natural trigger for early dark energy by displacing the field just before matter-radiation equality. We discuss various theoretical aspects of this proposal, potential observational signatures, and future directions for its study.
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