CMB-S4 Science Book, First Edition
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2016-10-11 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
This book lays out the scientific goals to be addressed by the next-generation ground-based cosmic microwave background experiment, CMB-S4, envisioned to consist of dedicated telescopes at the South Pole, the high Chilean Atacama plateau and possibly a northern hemisphere site, all equipped with new superconducting cameras. CMB-S4 will dramatically advance cosmological studies by crossing critical thresholds in the search for the B-mode polarization signature of primordial gravitational waves, in the determination of the number and masses of the neutrinos, in the search for evidence of new light relics, in constraining the nature of dark energy, and in testing general relativity on large scales.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1610.02743,
title = {CMB-S4 Science Book, First Edition},
author = {Kevork N. Abazajian and Peter Adshead and Zeeshan Ahmed and Steven W. Allen and David Alonso and Kam S. Arnold and Carlo Baccigalupi and James G. Bartlett and Nicholas Battaglia and Bradford A. Benson and Colin A. Bischoff and Julian Borrill and Victor Buza and Erminia Calabrese and Robert Caldwell and John E. Carlstrom and Clarence L. Chang and Thomas M. Crawford and Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine and Francesco De Bernardis and Tijmen de Haan and Sperello di Serego Alighieri and Joanna Dunkley and Cora Dvorkin and Josquin Errard and Giulio Fabbian and Stephen Feeney and Simone Ferraro and Jeffrey P. Filippini and Raphael Flauger and George M. Fuller and Vera Gluscevic and Daniel Green and Daniel Grin and Evan Grohs and Jason W. Henning and J. Colin Hill and Renee Hlozek and Gilbert Holder and William Holzapfel and Wayne Hu and Kevin M. Huffenberger and Reijo Keskitalo and Lloyd Knox and Arthur Kosowsky and John Kovac and Ely D. Kovetz and Chao-Lin Kuo and Akito Kusaka and Maude Le Jeune and Adrian T. Lee and Marc Lilley and Marilena Loverde and Mathew S. Madhavacheril and Adam Mantz and David J. E. Marsh and Jeffrey McMahon and Pieter Daniel Meerburg and Joel Meyers and Amber D. Miller and Julian B. Munoz and Ho Nam Nguyen and Michael D. Niemack and Marco Peloso and Julien Peloton and Levon Pogosian and Clement Pryke and Marco Raveri and Christian L. Reichardt and Graca Rocha and Aditya Rotti and Emmanuel Schaan and Marcel M. Schmittfull and Douglas Scott and Neelima Sehgal and Sarah Shandera and Blake D. Sherwin and Tristan L. Smith and Lorenzo Sorbo and Glenn D. Starkman and Kyle T. Story and Alexander van Engelen and Joaquin D. Vieira and Scott Watson and Nathan Whitehorn and W. L. Kimmy Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02743},
year = {2016}
}