BICEP Array Detectors and Instrumentation at 30/40 GHz: Design, Performance, and Deployment to the South Pole for Constraining Primordial Gravitational Waves

• Main Author: Mohamed Soliman, Ahmed Mohamed
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: South Pole; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; South pole
• Online Access: https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/15203/; https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/15203/1/AhmedSoliman_Thesis_Final.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05232023-174453276

The discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) in the 1960s has provided strong observational evidence for the Big Bang cosmological model to describe the origin and evolution of the universe. The theory of cosmic inflation was developed in the 1980s to account for the initial density pertur...