Measuring the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with BICEP3

• Main Author: Hui, Howard
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: California Institute of Technology 2018
• Subjects: cosmology observations; instrumentation polarimeters; inflation; Cosmic Microwave Background; gravitational waves; telescopes; Physics; South Pole; Amundsen-Scott; Amundsen Scott South Pole Station; Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7907/g8et-fd62; 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...