Invited Talk - The Cosmological Constant Problem, Time-Varying Dark Energy, and DESI

4 Aug 2025, 13:30
1h
435-437 Meeting Room (RIKEN Wako Campus)

435-437 Meeting Room

RIKEN Wako Campus

RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198

Speaker

Dr Wen Yin (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Description

The cosmological constant problem, the most serious fine-tuning problem for the standard model parameters, remains a major puzzle, especially in light of Weinberg’s no-go theorem, which forbids natural solutions if dark energy is constant.
Recent DESI observations suggest time variation in dark energy, opening a possible loophole. I present a model that realizes this idea to make the tuning technically natural.
Interestingly the prediction points to a dark energy evolution consistent with DESI DR1 and DR2.

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