New Physics from the “Hubble Tension”

par Dr Vivian Poulin (LUPM (CNRS & U. de Montpellier))

jeudi 13 mars 2025, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Paris

Auditorium Vivargent (LAPTh)

Over the last decade, measurements of the expansion rate of the universe today, H0, made with cepheid-calibrated SN1a have become increasingly discrepant with the value predicted from the ΛCDM model when fit to CMB data. After a brief review of the experimental situation, I will show the potential implications of this “Hubble tension” for new physics. I will argue that it points to some new mechanism at play in the pre- recombination universe (i.e., z > 1000), rather than a new dynamical effect at late-time (i.e. 0 < z < 1). I will discuss some model-independent implications of the Hubble tension that can help shed light on its origin.