Hubble Tension Resolved by Standard Model Dark Matter

If the Standard Model of particle physics is correct, there is only one possible candidate for the dark matter: the oscillation of the Standard Model Higgs field around its universal minimum. It has been known since the 1980’s that a rapidly oscillating scalar field with a quadratic potential in a Friedman universe would have matter density ρ ∝ R−3, the behavior of zero pressure matter. The Standard Model Higgs field would interact only gravitationally and weakly with normal matter, so a rapidly oscillating SM Higgs field would have all the essential properties of the observed Dark Matter. But the SM Higgs field has, in addition to the quadratic term, cubic and quartic terms. This results in a slight modification of ρ ∝ R−3, and I show that this change resolves the Hubble Tension. I also show how to test this SM solution to the Hubble Tension by astronomical and CERN observations. Finally, I show that this slight modification forces the Dark Matter to have a slight negative pressure, and so early universe galaxy formation will be enhanced above that expected from cold (zero pressure) Dark Matter. The SM naturally couples to general relativity in only one way, and I show this coupling generates an effective cosmological constant, i.e., the Dark Energy.