Abstract
The recently announced result by EDGES points an unexpected excess in the 21-cm global brightness temperature from cosmic dawn at , potentially indicating new phenomena beyond the model. A generic cosmological model which allows conformal and disformal couplings between dark matter and dark energy is employed to investigate the impact on the 21-cm absorption signal and understand the EDGES anomaly. After exploring a wide range of parameter space for couplings, we find that the coupling effects can lead to a moderate change in the Hubble parameter while a negligible change in the spin temperature in the early Universe. Consequently, the decrease of the Hubble parameter from the mixed conformal and disformal couplings can reproduce the 21-cm absorption approximately in consistent with the EDGES result at . However, there is still tension in corresponding parameter space between EDGES and other cosmological observations for this model.
1 More- Received 16 July 2018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.023528
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