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Precision of future experiments measuring primordial tensor fluctuation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-08-06 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Recently the second phase of Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) claimed a detection of the tensor-to-scalar ratio (rr) of primordial fluctuation at 5σ5\sigma confidence level. If it is true, this large and measurable amplitude (r0.2r \simeq 0.2) of B-mode polarization indicates that it is possible to measure the shape of CMB B-mode polarization with future experiments. We forecast the precision of rr and the tensor spectral index ntn_{\rm t} measurements, with ntn_{\rm t} as a free parameter, from a {\it Planck}-like experiment, and from Spider and POLARBEAR given the current understanding of their experimental noise and foreground contamination. We quantitatively determine the signal-to-noise of the measurement in rr-ntn_{\rm t} parameter space for the three experiments. The forecasted signal-to-noise ratio of the B-mode polarization somewhat depends on ntn_{\rm t}, but strongly depends on the true value of rr.

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@article{arxiv.1406.1615,
  title  = {Precision of future experiments measuring primordial tensor fluctuation},
  author = {Yi Wang and Yin-Zhe Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1615},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, 6 figures, revised version

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