Year: 2016
Type: book
Abstract: 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.
Authors: Abazajian, Kevork N., Adshead, Peter, Ahmed, Zeeshan, Allen, Steven W., Alonso, David, Arnold, Kam S., Baccigalupi, Carlo, Bartlett, James G., Battaglia, Nicholas, Benson, Bradford A., Bischoff, Colin A., Borrill, Julian, Buza, Victor, Calabrese, Erminia, Caldwell, Robert, Carlstrom, John E., Chang, Clarence L., Crawford, Thomas M., Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan, De Bernardis, Francesco, de Haan, Tijmen, Alighieri, Sperello di Serego, Dunkley, Joanna, Dvorkin, Cora, Errard, Josquin, Fabbian, Giulio, Feeney, Stephen, Ferraro, Simone, Filippini, Jeffrey P., Flauger, Raphael, Fuller, George M., Gluscevic, Vera, Green, Daniel, Grin, Daniel, Grohs, Evan, Henning, Jason W., Hill, J. Colin, Hlozek, Renee, Holder, Gilbert, Holzapfel, William, Hu, Wayne, Huffenberger, Kevin M., Keskitalo, Reijo, Knox, Lloyd, Kosowsky, Arthur, Kovac, John, Kovetz, Ely D., Kuo, Chao-Lin, Kusaka, Akito, Jeune, Maude Le, Lee, Adrian T., Lilley, Marc, Loverde, Marilena, Madhavacheril, Mathew S., Mantz, Adam, Marsh, David J. E., McMahon, Jeffrey, Meerburg, Pieter Daniel, Meyers, Joel, Miller, Amber D., Munoz, Julian B., Nguyen, Ho Nam, Niemack, Michael D., Peloso, Marco, Peloton, Julien, Pogosian, Levon, Pryke, Clement, Raveri, Marco, Reichardt, Christian L., Rocha, Graca, Rotti, Aditya, Schaan, Emmanuel, Schmittfull, Marcel M., Scott, Douglas, Sehgal, Neelima, Shandera, Sarah, Sherwin, Blake D., Smith, Tristan L., Sorbo, Lorenzo, Starkman, Glenn D., Story, Kyle T., van Engelen, Alexander, Vieira, Joaquin D., Watson, Scott, Whitehorn, Nathan, Wu, W. L. Kimmy
Institutions: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Princeton University, University of California, Irvine, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, University of Pittsburgh, University of California San Diego, University of Chicago, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Université Paris Diderot, University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Perimeter Institute, University of Michigan, University of Manchester, Columbia University, University of Toronto, Florida State University, University of California, Davis, Stony Brook University, California Institute of Technology, Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, National Institute for Astrophysics, King's College London, McGill University, University of Southern California, University of Minnesota, University of Sussex, Simon Fraser University, The University of Melbourne, Stockholm University, University of British Columbia, Pennsylvania State University, Swarthmore College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Case Western Reserve University, Syracuse University
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G7990040120
OpenAlex ID: W2975981262