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Ultra high energy cosmology with POLARBEAR

B Keating, S Moyerman, D Boettger, J Edwards, G Fuller, F Matsuda, N Miller, H Paar, G Rebeiz, I Schanning, M Shimon, N Stebor, K Arnold, D Flanigan, W Holzapfel, J Howard, Z Kermish, A Lee, M Lungu, M Myers Show all

Proceedings of the 2011 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, DPF 2011 | Published : 2011

Abstract

Observations of the temperature anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) lend support to an inflationary origin of the universe, yet no direct evidence verifying inflation exists. Many current experiments are focussing on the CMB's polarization anisotropy, specifically its curl component (called “B-mode” polarization), which remains undetected. The inflationary paradigm predicts the existence of a primordial gravitational wave background that imprints a unique B-mode signature on the CMB's polarization at large angular scales. The CMB B-mode signal also encodes gravitational lensing information at smaller angular scales, bearing the imprint of cosmological large scale structures (..

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