Measuring the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with BICEP3

• Main Author: Hui, Howard
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/11014/; https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/11014/7/Hui_Howard_2018_2.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06042018-002455152

Inflation, a period of accelerated expansion in the early Universe, is postulated to answer the horizon, flatness and monopole problems in the standard model of the Universe. This inflationary scenario generically predicts the existence of primordial gravitational waves, which would leave an unique...