More Structure Not Predicted By The Standard Model Of Cosmology

The Standard Model of Cosmology a.k.a. LambdaCDM model a.k.a. Concordance Model of Cosmology, doesn't predict the tight relationship between the distribution of star in galaxies and the location of dark matter inferred from the dynamics and lensing in the vicinity of those stars.

Another thing which is observed, but not predicted by the Concordance Model is the fairly strong correlation between a galaxy's bulge size and its number of satellite galaxies. But, that structure is also present in the data. A new paper confirms that there is a correlation and that the Concordance Model doesn't predict its existence.

There is a correlation between bulge mass of the three main galaxies of the Local Group (LG), i.e. M31, Milky Way (MW), and M33, and the number of their dwarf spheroidal galaxies. A similar correlation has also been reported for spiral galaxies with comparable luminosities outside the LG. These correlations do not appear to be expected in standard hierarchical galaxy formation. In this contribution, and for the first time, we present a quantitative investigation of the expectations of the standard model of cosmology for this possible relation using a galaxy catalogue based on the Millennium-II simulation. Our main sample consists of disk galaxies at the centers of halos with a range of virial masses similar to M33, MW, and M31. For this sample, we find an average trend (though with very large scatter) similar to the one observed in the LG; disk galaxies in heavier halos on average host heavier bulges and larger number of satellites. In addition, we study sub-samples of disk galaxies with very similar stellar or halo masses (but spanning a range of 2-3 orders of magnitude in bulge mass) and find no obvious trend in the number of satellites vs. bulge mass. We conclude that while for a wide galaxy mass range a relation arises (which seems to be a manifestation of the satellite number - halo mass correlation), for a narrow one there is no relation between number of satellites and bulge mass in the standard model. Further studies are needed to better understand the expectations of the standard model for this possible relation.

B. Javanmardi, M. Raouf, H. G. Khosroshahi, S. Tavasoli, O. Müller, A. Molaeinezhad, "The number of dwarf satellites of disk galaxies versus their bulge mass in the standard model of cosmology" (November 21, 2018) (accepted in The Astrophysical Journal).

This is quite powerful, despite a firstly thin data set to establish the correlation that exists in the real world, because it is a problem with lambdaCDM that is independent of its inaccurate expectations about where dark matter is located. A new paper continuing this line of research is the following one:

Low mass galaxies are expected to be dark matter dominated even within their centrals. Recently two observations reported two dwarf galaxies in group environment with very little dark matter in their centrals. We explore the population and origins of dark matter deficit galaxies (DMDGs) in two state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations, the EAGLE and Illustris projects. For all satellite galaxies with M∗>109 M⊙ in groups with M200>1013 M⊙, we find that about 5.0% of them in the EAGLE, and 3.2% in the Illustris are DMDGs with dark matter fractions below 50% inside two times half-stellar-mass radii. We demonstrate that DMDGs are highly tidal disrupted galaxies; and because dark matter has higher binding energy than stars, mass loss of the dark matter is much more rapid than stars in DMDGs during tidal interactions. If DMDGs were confirmed in observations, they are expected in current galaxy formation models.

Yingjie Jing, et al., "The dark matter deficit galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations" (November 22, 2018).

Another problem, somewhat related to the unexpected structure in inferred dark matter distributions, is that a very large swath of the parameter space of particles that interact with Standard Model matter non-gravitationally has been excluded experimentally, but the tight alignment of stars and inferred dark matter distributions implies that if dark matter is real that it has to have non-trivial, non-gravitational interactions with stars and other ordinary matter. Truly "sterile" dark matter which doesn't interact with anything non-gravitationally, which would be "collisionless", as lambdaCDM assumes that dark matter comes close to, has basically been ruled out experimentally.

In addition to these two relatively independent problems, lambdaCDM also has a problem with its chronology of the moderately early universe. This gives rise to the "Impossible Early Galaxies" problem, and to 21cm radiation wavelength lines that fail to show the behavior expected in a world with dark matter at roughly the end of the "radiation era".

While correlation is not causation, most strong correlations in nature have a cause of some kind. Figuring out which set is the cause and which is the effect can be difficult, or can even be a category error. But, there is almost always some reason for the relationship.

Because the Concordance Model fails to explain multiple independent phenomena that show correlations, it is probably wrong. Not wildly totally wrong, because it does get lots of things that we can confirm with astronomy at very large scales right. But, significantly, deeply flawed.

It only took the one flaw to convince me that something was amiss with the Concordance Model. But, lots of people who are less skeptical of lambdaCDM than I am, are going to start looking for alternatives as multiple, significant, seemingly independent breaks between the Concordance Model and observed reality emerge.

I, of course, think (although I can't personally rigorously prove it) that pretty much all of the flaws of lambdaCDM exist because we have misunderstood some important second and third order quantum gravitational effects that matter in very weak gravitational fields in very high mass systems. My very strong intuition is that, in reality, there is both no dark matter and no dark energy, apart of fields of Standard Model fundamental particles and gravitons. But, I don't expect that paradigm shift to spread all that quickly, unless a rising star popularizes a solution of that kind of a mass scale within the physics and physics journalism communities.

Meanwhile, another promising modified gravity theory has emerged.

We have recently shown that the baryonic Tully-Fisher (BTF) and Faber-Jackson (BFJ) relations imply that the gravitational "constant" G in the force law vary with acceleration a as 1/a. Here we derive the converse from first principles. First we obtain the gravitational potential for all accelerations and we formulate the Lagrangian for the central-force problem. Then action minimization implies the BTF/BFJ relations in the deep MOND limit as well as weak-field Weyl gravity in the Newtonian limit. The results show how we can properly formulate a nonrelativistic conformal theory of modified dynamics that reduces to MOND in its low-acceleration limit and to Weyl gravity in the opposite limit. An unavoidable conclusion is that a0, the transitional acceleration in modified dynamics, does not have a cosmological origin and it may not even be constant among galaxies and galaxy clusters.

Dimitris M. Christodoulou, Demosthenes Kazanas, "Gravitational Potential and Nonrelativistic Lagrangian in Modified Gravity with Varying G" (November 21, 2018).

Further afield and mostly unrelated is the possibility that lots of the filamentary large scale structure of the universe could be driven by magnetism, which is usually assumed to be negligible and not influential in interstellar space. But, maybe not:

Evidence repeatedly suggests that cosmological sheets, filaments and voids may be substantially magnetised today. The origin of magnetic fields in the intergalactic medium is however currently uncertain. We discuss a magnetogenesis mechanism based on the exchange of momentum between hard photons and electrons in an inhomogeneous intergalactic medium. Operating near ionising sources during the epoch of reionisation, it is capable of generating magnetic seeds of relevant strengths over scales comparable to the distance between ionising sources. Furthermore, when the contributions of all ionising sources and the distribution of gas inhomogeneities are taken into account, it leads, by the end of reionisation, to a level of magnetisation that may account for the current magnetic fields strengths in the cosmic web.

Mathieu Langer, Jean-Baptiste Durrive "Magnetising the Cosmic Web during Reionisation" (November 22, 2018).

MORE INTERESTING PAPERS (NO TIME TO FORMAT THEM, A RICH LOAD OF PAPERS TODAY FOR SOME REASON, PERHAPS A PRE-THANKSGIVING RUSH TO WRAP STUFF UP):

arXiv:1811.09197 [pdf, other]
Large-scale redshift space distortions in modified gravity theories
César Hernández-Aguayo, Jiamin Hou, Baojiu Li, Carlton M. Baugh, Ariel G. Sánchez
Comments: 18 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)

Measurements of redshift space distortions (RSD) provide a means to test models of gravity on large-scales. We use mock galaxy catalogues constructed from large N-body simulations of standard and modified gravity models to measure galaxy clustering in redshift space. We focus our attention on two of the most representative and popular families of modified gravity models: the Hu \& Sawicki f(R) gravity and the normal branch of the DGP model. The galaxy catalogues are built using a halo occupation distribution (HOD) prescription with the HOD parameters in the modified gravity models tuned to match with the number density and the real-space clustering of {\sc boss-cmass} galaxies. We employ two approaches to model RSD: the first is based on linear perturbation theory and the second models non-linear effects on small-scales by assuming standard gravity and including biasing and RSD effects. We measure the monopole to real-space correlation function ratio, the quadrupole to monopole ratio, clustering wedges and multipoles of the correlation function and use these statistics to find the constraints on the distortion parameter, β. We find that the linear model fails to reproduce the N-body simulation results and the true value of β on scales $s < 40\Mpch$, while the non-linear modelling of RSD recovers the value of β on the scales of interest for all models. RSD on large scales (s≳20-$40\Mpch$) have been found to show significant deviations from the prediction of standard gravity in the DGP models. However, the potential to use RSD to constrain f(R) models is less promising, due to the different screening mechanism in this model,

arXiv:1811.09222 [pdf, ps, other]
Beyond the Standard models of particle physics and cosmology
Maxim Yu. Khlopov
Comments: Prepared for Proceedings of XXI Bled Workshop "What comes beyond the Standard models?"
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

The modern Standard cosmological model of inflationary Universe and baryosynthesis deeply involves particle theory beyond the Standard model (BSM). Inevitably, models of BSM physics lead to cosmological scenarios beyond the Standard cosmological paradigm. Scenarios of dark atom cosmology in the context of puzzles of direct and indirect dark matter searches, of clusters of massive primordial black holes as the source of gravitational wave signals and of antimatter globular cluster as the source of cosmic antihelium are discussed.

arXiv:1811.09578 (cross-list from physics.gen-ph) [pdf, ps, other]

Emergent photons and gravitons

J.L. Chkareuli, J. Jejelava, Z. Kepuladze

Comments: to appear in Proceedings of the 21st Bled Workshop "What Comes Beyond Standard Models"

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

Now, it is already not a big surprise that due to the spontaneous Lorentz invariance violation (SLIV) there may emerge massless vector and tensor Goldstone modes identified particularly with photon and graviton. Point is, however, that this mechanism is usually considered separately for photon and graviton, though in reality they appear in fact together. In this connection, we recently develop the common emergent electrogravity model which would like to present here. This model incorporates the ordinary QED and tensor field gravity mimicking linearized general relativity. The SLIV is induced by length-fixing constraints put on the vector and tensor fields, A2μ=±M2A and H2μν=±M2H (MA and MH are the proposed symmetry breaking scales) which possess the much higher symmetry then the model Lagrangian itself. As a result, the twelve Goldstone modes are produced in total and they are collected into the vector and tensor field multiplets. While photon is always the true vector Goldstone boson, graviton contain pseudo-Goldstone modes as well. In terms of the appearing zero modes, theory becomes essentially nonlinear and contains many Lorentz and CPT violating interaction. However, as argued, they do not contribute in processes which might lead to the physical Lorentz violation. Nonetheless, how the emergent electrogravity theory could be observationally differed from conventional QED and GR theories is also briefly discussed.

arXiv:1811.09308 [pdf, ps, other]

The electron self-energy in QED at two loops revisited

Ina Hönemann, Kirsten Tempest, Stefan Weinzierl

Comments: 44 pages

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

We reconsider the two-loop electron self-energy in quantum electrodynamics. We present a modern calculation, where all relevant two-loop integrals are expressed in terms of iterated integrals of modular forms. As boundary points of the iterated integrals we consider the four cases p2=0, p2=m2, p2=9m2 and p2=∞. The iterated integrals have q-expansions, which can be used for the numerical evaluation. We show that a truncation of the q-series to order (q30) gives numerically for the finite part of the self-energy a relative precision better than 10−20for all real values p2/m2.

arXiv:1811.09179 [pdf, ps, other]

Properties of the decay H→γγ using the approximate α4s-corrections and the principle of maximum conformality

Qing Yu, Xing-Gang Wu, Sheng-Quan Wang, Xu-Dong Huang, Jian-Ming Shen, Jun Zeng

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

The Higgs boson decay channel, H→γγ, is one of the most important channels for probing the properties of the Higgs boson. In the paper, we reanalyze its decay width by using the QCD corrections up to α4s-order level. The principle of maximum conformality has been adopted to achieve a precise pQCD prediction without conventional renormalization scheme-and-scale ambiguities. By taking the Higgs mass as the one given by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, i.e. MH=125.09±0.21±0.11 GeV, we obtain Γ(H→γγ)|LHC=9.364+0.076−0.075 KeV.

arXiv:1811.09262 [pdf, ps, other]

Lepton and Quark Masses and Mixing in a SUSY Model with Delta(384) and CP

Claudia Hagedorn, Johannes König

Comments: 1+41 pages, 1 figure, 5 tables

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

We construct a supersymmetric model for leptons and quarks with the flavor symmetry Delta(384) and CP. The peculiar features of lepton and quark mixing are accomplished by the stepwise breaking of the flavor and CP symmetry. The correct description of lepton mixing angles requires two steps of symmetry breaking, where tri-bimaximal mixing arises after the first step. In the quark sector the Cabibbo angle theta_C equals sin pi/16 = 0.195 after the first step of symmetry breaking and it is brought into full agreement with experimental data after the second step. The two remaining quark mixing angles are generated after the third step of symmetry breaking. All three leptonic CP phases are predicted, sin delta^l = -0.936, |sin alpha|=|sin beta|=1/sqrt{2}. The amount of CP violation in the quark sector turns out to be maximal at the lowest order and is correctly accounted for, when higher order effects are included. Charged fermion masses are reproduced with the help of operators with different numbers of flavor (and CP) symmetry breaking fields. Light neutrino masses, arising from the type-I seesaw mechanism, can accommodate both mass orderings, normal and inverted. The vacuum alignment of the flavor (and CP) symmetry breaking fields is discussed at leading and at higher order.

arXiv:1811.09378 [pdf, other]
Bound on the graviton mass from Chandra X-ray cluster sample
Sajal Gupta, Shantanu Desai
Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

We present new limits on the graviton mass using a sample of 12 relaxed galaxy clusters, for which temperature and gas density profiles were estimated by Vikhlinin et al (astro-ph/0507092) using Chandra X-ray observations. For this purpose, we first calculate the total mass from the hydrostatic equilibrium equation in a Yukawa potential and then determine the acceleration in such a potential. We then compare this with the corresponding acceleration computed using Newtonian gravity. These differences are quantified by a constructing χ2 residuals between the two profiles, which is used to bound the graviton mass. We calculate a 90 \% c.l. upper limit on the graviton mass for each of the 12 clusters in the sample. The best limit is obtained for Abell 2390, corresponding to mg<1.81×10−29 eV or λg>6.83×1019 km.

arXiv:1811.09344 (cross-list from astro-ph.IM) [pdf, other]

The First Direct Search for Inelastic Boosted Dark Matter with COSINE-100
C. Ha, G. Adhikari, P. Adhikari, E. Barbosa de Souza, N. Carlin, S. Choi, M. Djamal, A. C. Ezeribe, I. S. Hahn, E. J. Jeon, J. H. Jo, H. W. Joo, W. G. Kang, W. Kang, M. Kauer, G. S. Kim, H. Kim, H. J. Kim, K. W. Kim, N. Y. Kim, S. K. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Y. H. Kim, Y. J. Ko, V. A. Kudryavtsev, H. S. Lee, J. Lee, J. Y. Lee, M. H. Lee, D. S. Leonard, W. A. Lynch, R. H. Maruyama, F. Mouton, S. L. Olsen, B. J. Park, H. K. Park, H. S. Park, K. S. Park, R. L. C. Pitta, H. Prihtiadi, S. J. Ra, C. Rott, K. A. Shin, A. Scar, N. J. C. Spooner, W. G. Thompson,L. Yang, G. H. Yu
Comments: 6 pages, 5 figures
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

A search for inelastic boosted dark matter (iBDM) using the COSINE-100 detector with 59.5 days of data is presented. This relativistic dark matter is theorized to interact with the target material primarily through inelastic scattering with electrons, creating a heavier state that subsequently produces standard model particles, such as an electron-positron pair. In this study, we search for this electron-positron pair in coincidence with the initially scattered electron as a signature for an iBDM interaction. No excess over the predicted event rate is observed. Therefore, we present limits on iBDM interactions under various hypotheses. This is the first experimental search for these interactions from the Galactic Center using a dark matter detector.