The Polarbear-2 and the Simons Array Experiments

A Suzuki; P Ade; Y Akiba; C Aleman; K Arnold; C Baccigalupi; B Barch; D Barron; A Bender; D Boettger; J Borrill; S Chapman; Y Chinone; A Cukierman; M Dobbs; A Ducout; R Dunner; T Elleflot; J Errard; G Fabbian; S Feeney; C Feng; T Fujino; G Fuller; A Gilbert; N Goeckner-Wald; J Groh; TD Haan; G Hall; N Halverson; T Hamada; M Hasegawa; K Hattori; M Hazumi; C Hill; W Holzapfel; Y Hori; L Howe; Y Inoue; F Irie; G Jaehnig; A Jaffe; O Jeong; N Katayama; J Kaufman; K Kazemzadeh; B Keating; Z Kermish; R Keskitalo; T Kisner; A Kusaka; ML Jeune; A Lee; D Leon; E Linder; L Lowry; F Matsuda; T Matsumura; N Miller; K Mizukami; J Montgomery; M Navaroli; H Nishino; J Peloton; D Poletti; G Puglisi; G Rebeiz; C Raum; C Reichardt; P Richards; C Ross; K Rotermund; Y Segawa; B Sherwin; I Shirley; P Siritanasak; N Stebor; R Stompor; J Suzuki; O Tajima; S Takada; S Takakura; S Takatori; A Tikhomirov; T Tomaru; B Westbrook; N Whitehorn; T Yamashita; A Zahn; O Zahn

Journal article

The Polarbear-2 and the Simons Array Experiments

A Suzuki, P Ade, Y Akiba, C Aleman, K Arnold, C Baccigalupi, B Barch, D Barron, A Bender, D Boettger, J Borrill, S Chapman, Y Chinone, A Cukierman, M Dobbs, A Ducout, R Dunner, T Elleflot, J Errard, G Fabbian Show all

Journal of Low Temperature Physics | SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1007/s10909-015-1425-4

Abstract

We present an overview of the design and status of the Polarbear-2 and the Simons Array experiments. Polarbear-2 is a cosmic microwave background polarimetry experiment which aims to characterize the arc-minute angular scale B-mode signal from weak gravitational lensing and search for the degree angular scale B-mode signal from inflationary gravitational waves. The receiver has a 365 mm diameter focal plane cooled to 270 mK. The focal plane is filled with 7588 dichroic lenslet–antenna-coupled polarization sensitive transition edge sensor (TES) bolometric pixels that are sensitive to 95 and 150 GHz bands simultaneously. The TES bolometers are read-out by SQUIDs with 40 channel frequency domai..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Christian Reichardt Author

Grants

Awarded by National Science Foundation

Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the support from the MEXT Kahenhi Grant 21111002, NSF Grant AST-0618398, NASA Grant NNG06GJ08G, The Simons Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the CONICYT provided invaluable funding and support. Detectors were fabricated at the Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication laboratory.