No H_0 Assistance from Assisted Quintessence

Abstract

Early dark energy, as a proposed solution to the Hubble tension, faces an additional "why now" problem. Why should dark energy emerge just prior to recombination, billions of years before the onset of cosmic acceleration? Assisted quintessence explains this connection by positing that multiple scaling fields build up over time to drive the present-day cosmic acceleration. In this framework, early dark energy is inevitable. Yet, we show that scaling also leads to the demise of the scenario: the same feature that solves the coincidence problem then spoils a concordance of the Hubble constant inferred from the cosmic microwave background with that from the local distance ladder. The failure of the model offers a novel lesson on the ability of new physics to resolve the Hubble tension.

arXiv comment18 pages, 10 figures; minor changes to match published version; Data available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4708308

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