Probing cosmic inflation with the LiteBIRD cosmic microwave background polarization survey

LiteBIRD Collaboration, E Allys, K Arnold… - … of Theoretical and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation
from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology …

BICEP/ XIV: Improved constraints on axionlike polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background

PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, M Amiri, D Barkats, R Basu Thakur… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We present an improved search for axionlike polarization oscillations in the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) with observations from the Keck Array. An all-sky, temporally …

A demonstration of improved constraints on primordial gravitational waves with delensing

PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, M Amiri, AJ Anderson… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, r, derived from measurements of
cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization B-modes with “delensing,” whereby the …

Detector fabrication development for the LiteBIRD satellite mission

B Westbrook, C Raum, S Beckman… - Space Telescopes …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led strategic Large-Class satellite mission designed to measure the
polarization of the cosmic microwave background and cosmic foregrounds from 34 to 448 …

Performance and characterization of the SPT-3G digital frequency-domain multiplexed readout system using an improved noise and crosstalk model

J Montgomery, PAR Ade, Z Ahmed… - Journal of …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The third-generation South Pole Telescope camera (SPT-3G) improves upon its
predecessor (SPTpol) by an order of magnitude increase in detectors on the focal plane …

XII: Constraints on axionlike polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background

PAR Ade, Z Ahmed, M Amiri, D Barkats, R Basu Thakur… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present a search for axionlike polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave
background (CMB) with observations from the Keck Array. A local axion field induces an all …

A foreground-immune CMB-cluster lensing estimator

K Levy, S Raghunathan, K Basu - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Galaxy clusters induce a distinct dipole pattern in the cosmic microwave back-ground (CMB)
through the effect of gravitational lensing. Extracting this lensing signal will enable us to …

Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

S Raghunathan, S Patil, E Baxter, BA Benson… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the
polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained …

Picosecond laser ablation of millimeter-wave subwavelength structures on alumina and sapphire

Q Wen, E Fadeeva, S Hanany, J Koch… - Optics & Laser …, 2021 - Elsevier
We use a 1030 nm laser with 7 ps pulse duration and average power up to 100 W to ablate
pyramid-shape subwavelength structures (SWS) on alumina and sapphire. The SWS give …

Particle physics with the cosmic microwave background with SPT-3G

JS Avva, SPT-3G collaboration - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) encodes information about the content and
evolution of the universe. The presence of light, weakly interacting particles impacts the …