Exciting gauge field and gravitons in brane-antibrane annihilation

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Mar 6;102(9):091601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.091601. Epub 2009 Mar 5.

Abstract

In this Letter we point out the inevitability of an explosive production of gauge field and gravity wave during an open string tachyon condensation in a cosmological setting, in an effective field theory model. We will be particularly studying a toy model of brane-antibrane inflation in a warped throat where inflation ends via tachyon condensation. We point out that a tachyonic instability helps fragmenting the homogeneous tachyon and excites gauge field and contributes to the stress-energy tensor which also feeds into the gravity waves.