Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-05-02
Phys.Rev.Lett. 85 (2000) 2044-2047
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Latex, 5 pages, plus one figure, final version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2044
Recent models which describe our world as a brane embedded in a higher dimensional space introduce new geometrical degrees of freedom: the shape and/or size of the extra dimensions, and the position of the brane. These modes can be coherently excited by symmetry breaking in the early universe even on ``mesoscopic'' scales as large as 1 mm, leading to detectable gravitational radiation. Two sources are described: relativistic turbulence caused by a first-order transition of a radion potential, and Kibble excitation of Nambu-Goldstone modes of brane displacement. Characteristic scales and spectral properties are estimated and the prospects for observation by LISA are discussed. Extra dimensions with scale between 10 \AA and 1 mm, which enter the 3+1-D era at cosmic temperatures between 1 and 1000 TeV, produce backgrounds with energy peaked at observed frequencies in the LISA band, between $10^{-1}$ and $10^{-4}$ Hz. The background is detectable above instrument and astrophysical foregrounds if initial metric perturbations are excited to a fractional amplitude of $10^{-3}$ or more, a likely outcome for the Nambu-Goldstone excitations.
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