Gravitational Imprints from Heavy Kaluza-Klein Resonances

Abstract

We systematically study the holographic phase transition of the radion field in a five-dimensional warped model which includes a scalar potential with a power-like behavior. We consider Kaluza-Klein (KK) resonances with masses $m_{\mathrm{KK}}$ at the TeV scale or beyond. The backreaction of the radion field on the gravitational metric is taken into account by using the superpotential formalism. The confinement/deconfinement first order phase transition leads to a gravitational wave stochastic background which mainly depends on the scale $m_{\mathrm{KK}}$ and the number of colors, $N$, in the dual theory. Its power spectrum peaks at a frequency that depends on the amount of tuning required in the electroweak sector. It turns out that the present and forthcoming gravitational wave observatories can probe scenarios where the KK resonances are very heavy. Current aLIGO data already rule out vector boson KK resonances with masses in the interval $m_{\mathrm{KK}}\sim (1-10)\times 10^5$ TeV. Future gravitational experiments will be sensitive to resonances with masses $m_{\mathrm{KK}}\lesssim 10^5$ TeV (LISA), $10^8$ TeV (aLIGO Design) and $10^9$ TeV (ET). Finally, we also find that the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis bound in the frequency spectrum turns into a lower bound for the nucleation temperature as $T_n\gtrsim 10^{-4}\sqrt{N}{m}_{\mathrm{KK}}$.

arXiv comment11 pages, 6 figures; v2 extended version: added references and Figs. 1 (right), 2, 3, 4 (lower panels) and 5, Sec. IV, and extended discussion in Secs. V, VI and VII; v3 added references, extended discussion in Sec. VI. It matches the version published in Physical Review D

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