Gravitational Waves from the Non-Perturbative Decay of Condensates along Supersymmetric Flat Directions
arXiv:0902.2574 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.041301
Abstract
It has recently been shown that specific non-perturbative effects may lead to an explosive decay of flat direction condensates in supersymmetric theories. We confirm explicitly the efficiency of this process with lattice simulations: after few rotations of the condensates in their complex plane, most of their energy is quickly converted into inhomogeneous fluctuations. We then point out that this generates a gravitational wave background which depends on the inflaton sector and falls in the Hz-kHz frequency range today. We compute the resulting spectrum and study how it depends on the parameters. We show that these gravity waves can be observable by upcoming experiments like Advanced LIGO and depend crucially on (i) the initial VEV of flat directions when they start to oscillate, (ii) their soft SUSY-breaking mass and (iii) the reheat temperature of the universe. This signal could open a new observational window on inflation and low-energy supersymmetry.
v2: minor modifications, refs. added. Slightly longer version than the one published in Phys.Rev.Lett
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