Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2008 · 19 citations · 1 references
Natural SciencesPhysicsCosmologyGravitationGravityCosmic Microwave BackgroundCosmic Microwave Background ObservationsGeneral RelativityGravitational WavesInflationary CosmologyCosmic Microwave Background AnisotropiesInflationary SignaturesPrimordial Gravitational WavesPrimordial Power Spectrum
The E and B Experiment, EBEX, is a Cosmic Microwave Background polarization experiment designed to detect or set upper limits on the signature of primordial gravity waves. Primordial gravity waves are predicted to be produced by inflation, and a measurement of the power spectrum of these gravity waves is a measurement of the energy scale of inflation. EBEX has sufficient sensitivity to detect or set an upper limit at 95% confidence on the energy scale of inflation of < 1.4 × 10<sup>16</sup> GeV. This article reviews our strategy for achieving our science goals and discusses the implementation of the instrument.
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Task Force on Cosmic Microwave Background Research
James J. Bock, S. E. Church, Mark J. Devlin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2006 · 60 citations · Full text
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