Journal
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 779, Issue -, Pages 348-352Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2018.02.028
Keywords
Gravitational waves from phase transitions; String phenomenology
Funding
- European Research Council [307605]
- European Research Council (ERC) [307605] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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We argue that gravitational wave signals due to collisions of ultra-relativistic bubble walls may be common in string theory. This occurs due to a process of post-inflationary vacuum decay via quantum tunnelling. Though we study a specific string construction involving warped throats, we argue that our conclusions are more general. Many such transitions could have occurred in the post-inflationary Universe, as a large number of throats with exponentially different mass scales can be present in the string landscape, leading to several signals of widely different frequencies-a soundscape connected to the landscape of vacua. Detectors such as aLIGO/VIRGO, LISA, and pulsar timing observations with SKA and EPTA have the sensitivity to detect such signals. A distribution of primordial black holes is also a likely consequence, though reliable estimates of masses and their abundance require dedicated numerical simulations, as do the fine details of the gravitational wave spectrum due to the unusual nature of the transition. (C)) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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