Axion baryogenesis puts a new spin on the Hubble tension

Raymond T. Co, Nicolas Fernandez, Akshay Ghalsasi, Keisuke Harigaya, Jessie Shelton

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Abstract

We show that a rotating axion field that makes a transition from a matterlike equation of state to a kinationlike equation of state around the epoch of recombination can significantly ameliorate the Hubble tension, i.e., the discrepancy between the determinations of the present-day expansion rate H0 from observations of the cosmic microwave background on one hand and type Ia supernovae on the other. We consider a specific, UV-complete model of such a rotating axion and find that it can relax the Hubble tension without exacerbating tensions in determinations of other cosmological parameters, in particular the amplitude of matter fluctuations S8. We subsequently demonstrate how this rotating axion model can also generate the baryon asymmetry of our Universe, by introducing a coupling of the axion field to right-handed neutrinos. This baryogenesis model predicts heavy neutral leptons that are most naturally within reach of future lepton colliders, but in finely tuned regions of parameter space may also be accessible at the high-luminosity LHC and the beam dump experiment SHiP.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number083534
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume110
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 15 2024

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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