CMB-S4 Science Book, First Edition

By K. Abazajian, Peter Adshead, Z. Ahmed, S. Allen, D. Alonso, K. Arnold, C. Baccigalupi, J. Bartlett, Nicholas Battaglia, B. Benson and 76 more. 2016

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This book lays out the scientific goals to be addressed by the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, CMB-S4, envisioned to consist of dedicated telescopes at the South Pole, the high Chilean Atacama plateau and possibly a northern hemisphere site, all equipped with new superconducting cameras. CMB-S4 will dramatically advance cosmological studies by crossing critical thresholds in the search for the B-mode polarization signature of primordial gravitational waves, in the determination of the number and masses of the neutrinos, in the search for evidence of new light relics, in constraining the nature of dark energy, and in testing general relativity on large scales.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Ups and Downs of Early Dark Energy solutions to the Hubble tension: A review of models, hints and constraints circa 2023 (2023, background): “, from Simons Observatory [40] and CMB Stage 4 [41]).”
Using the Full Power of the Cosmic Microwave Background to Probe Axion Dark Matter (2017, methodology): “…model (e.g. Smoot et al. 1992; Mather et al. 1994; Jaffe et al. 2001; Bennett et al. 2013; Story et al. 2013; Planck Collaboration et al. 2016b; BICEP2 Collaboration et al. 2016; Louis et al. 2016), and will continue to play a key role in the coming decades (e.g. Abazajian et al. 2016).”
A unified pseudo-Cℓ framework (2018, methodology): “…ACTPol (De Bernardis et al. 2016; Louis et al. 2017) or the Simons Array (Suzuki et al. 2016; POLARBEAR Collaboration et al. 2017), as well as next-generation facilities such as the Simons Observatory (The Simons Observatory Collaboration et al. 2018) or CMB Stage-4 (Abazajian et al. 2016).”
CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan (2019, methodology): “These two features explain why future measurements of ∆Neff can be orders of magnitude more sensitive than terrestrial and astrophysical probes of the same physics [155, 3].”
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