Calibration and design of the E and B EXperiment (EBEX) cryogenic receiver

• Main Author: Zilic, Kyle Thomas
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: B-mode; Calibration; CMB; Cosmology; Inflation; Telescope; Physics; McMurdo Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/167703

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2014. Major: Physics. Advisor: Professor Shaul Hanany. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 144 pages. I discuss the design, construction, and calibration of the E \& B EXperiment (EBEX), a balloon-borne telescope designed to measure the B-mode polarizati...