The BRAIN CMB polarization experiment

• Published in: New Astronomy Reviews
• Main Authors: Polenta, G, Ade, PAR, Bartlett, J, Bréelle, E, Conversi, L, de Bernardis, P, Dufour, C, Giard, M, Giordano, C, Giraud Heraud, Y, Maffei, B, Masi, S, Nati, F, Orlando, A, Peterzen, S, Piacentini, F, Piat, M, Piccirillo, L, Pisano, G, Pons, R, Rosset, C, Savini, G, Tartari, A, Veneziani, M, GERVASI, MASSIMO, SIRONI, GIORGIO, ZANNONI, MARIO
• Other Authors: Ade, P, Gervasi, M, Sironi, G, Zannoni, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: elsevier 2007
• Subjects: Cosmology; Polarimetry; Interferometry; Background radiation; FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICA; Austral; Concordia Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10281/3018; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newar.2006.11.065

In the standard cosmological scenario tensor perturbations of the metric produce a rotational component in the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization, called B-modes. The expected signal is of the order of '0.1 micron K, well beyond the sensitivity of current experiments. In this paper, we in...