14–16 May 2024
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

Modified Gravity vs Dark Interactions: Settling the Dispute through the Distortion of Time

14 May 2024, 12:15
5m
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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late universe Late Universe

Speaker

Sveva Castello (University of Geneva)

Description

Combining measurements of the growth rate of cosmic structures with gravitational lensing is considered as the optimal way to test for deviations from General Relativity on cosmological scales. In my talk, I will demonstrate that this standard method suffers from an important limitation, since models of dark matter with additional interactions can lead to exactly the same signatures as modified gravity in these two observables. Luckily, I will show that the coming generation of large-scale structure surveys, like the Square Kilometer Array, will allow us to break this degeneracy through measurements of the distortion of time.

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Primary author

Sveva Castello (University of Geneva)

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