New physics from the polarized light of the cosmic microwave background

E Komatsu - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The current cosmological model requires new physics beyond the standard model of
elementary particles and fields, such as dark matter and dark energy. Their nature is …

Detection of -Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2

PAR Ade, RW Aikin, D Barkats, SJ Benton… - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave background (CMB)
polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary gravitational waves …

CMB-S4: Forecasting constraints on primordial gravitational waves

K Abazajian, GE Addison, P Adshead… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Determining the origin of structure in the universe is one of the most important open
problems in cosmology. CMB anisotropies sourced by early-universe density perturbations …

The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE): a nulling polarimeter for cosmic microwave background observations

A Kogut, DJ Fixsen, DT Chuss, J Dotson… - … of Cosmology and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is a concept for an Explorer-class mission
to measure the gravity-wave signature of primordial inflation through its distinctive imprint on …

A measurement of the cosmic microwave background B-mode polarization power spectrum at sub-degree scales with POLARBEAR

PAR Ade, Y Akiba, AE Anthony, K Arnold… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a measurement of the B-mode polarization power spectrum in the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) using the Polarbear experiment in Chile. The faint B-mode …

Recent discoveries from the cosmic microwave background: a review of recent progress

S Staggs, J Dunkley, L Page - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Measurements of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation
have provided a wealth of information about the cosmological model that describes the …

BICEP2 I: detection of B-mode polarization at degree angular scales

PA Ade, RW Aikin, D Barkats, SJ Benton… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
(abridged for arxiv) We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave
background (CMB) polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary …

PICO: Probe of inflation and cosmic origins

S Hanany, M Alvarez, E Artis, P Ashton… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
The Probe of Inflation and Cosmic Origins (PICO) is an imaging polarimeter that will scan the
sky for 5 years in 21 frequency bands spread between 21 and 799 GHz. It will produce full …

Robustness of cosmic birefringence measurement against Galactic foreground emission and instrumental systematics

P Diego-Palazuelos… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to search for
parity-violating processes like that predicted by a Chern-Simons coupling to a light …

The Atacama cosmology telescope: CMB polarization at 200< ℓ< 9000

S Naess, M Hasselfield, J McMahon… - … of Cosmology and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and celestial
polarization at 146 GHz made with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter …