Mean-field approach to Random Apollonian Packing

Bubble nucleation is a phenomenon ubiquitous in physics, with applications ranging from the geometry of tree crowns, the structure of porous media and of sphere packing. Bubbles also find applications in cosmology such as the characterization of cosmic voids in the large scale structure and the signatures of cosmological phase transitions. In a new preprint, Pierre proposes a new method to determine the fractal properties of the so-called Random Apollonian Packing.

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Cosmology Seminar

The next cosmology seminar takes place on Friday 30th of September, seminar room E349 at 2pm. Our guest speaker will be Nilanjandev Bhaumik from the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore, India).

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Slow-roll Inflation at N3LO

Cosmic Inflation, the most favoured scenario of the early Universe, implies that all forms of matter and radiation observed today are the outcome of quantum fluctuations occurring around the event horizon of a exponentially fast accelerating space-time. Clearing the ground for the incoming spatial and ground based cosmological observations, Pierre and Christophe have derived, at an unprecedented level of precision, the shape of the expected power spectra of both the quantum-generated gravitational waves and curvature perturbations.

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BEL Center exhibition

Anticipating the opening of the Brout-Englert-Lemaître Center, a few aesthetic pictures associated with our researches will be on display during the “Walk in the Park” event, on Saturday the 25th at the Tournay Solvay Park (11am).

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Stochastic gravitational waves from long cosmic strings

A cosmic strings network present in our Universe should be incessantly emitting gravitational waves. An absolute lower limit of the expected signal can be found by determining the gravitational waves created by the back bones of the network: the long cosmic strings. Disrael and Christophe, in collaboration with François R. Bouchet, have computed this irreducible contribution using new numerical simulations of Nambu-Goto cosmic strings.

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