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Snowmass 2021 CMB-S4 White Paper

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-04-13 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

This Snowmass 2021 White Paper describes the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 project CMB-S4, which is designed to cross critical thresholds in our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe, from the highest energies at the dawn of time through the growth of structure to the present day. We provide an overview of the science case, the technical design, and project plan.

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@article{arxiv.2203.08024,
  title  = {Snowmass 2021 CMB-S4 White Paper},
  author = {Kevork Abazajian and Arwa Abdulghafour and Graeme E. Addison and Peter Adshead and Zeeshan Ahmed and Marco Ajello and Daniel Akerib and Steven W. Allen and David Alonso and Marcelo Alvarez and Mustafa A. Amin and Mandana Amiri and Adam Anderson and Behzad Ansarinejad and Melanie Archipley and Kam S. Arnold and Matt Ashby and Han Aung and Carlo Baccigalupi and Carina Baker and Abhishek Bakshi and Debbie Bard and Denis Barkats and Darcy Barron and Peter S. Barry and James G. Bartlett and Paul Barton and Ritoban Basu Thakur and Nicholas Battaglia and Jim Beall and Rachel Bean and Dominic Beck and Sebastian Belkner and Karim Benabed and Amy N. Bender and Bradford A. Benson and Bobby Besuner and Matthieu Bethermin and Sanah Bhimani and Federico Bianchini and Simon Biquard and Ian Birdwell and Colin A. Bischoff and Lindsey Bleem and Paulina Bocaz and James J. Bock and Sebastian Bocquet and Kimberly K. Boddy and J. Richard Bond and Julian Borrill and Francois R. Bouchet and Thejs Brinckmann and Michael L. Brown and Sean Bryan and Victor Buza and Karen Byrum and Erminia Calabrese and Victoria Calafut and Robert Caldwell and John E. Carlstrom and Julien Carron and Thomas Cecil and Anthony Challinor and Victor Chan and Clarence L. Chang and Scott Chapman and Eric Charles and Eric Chauvin and Cheng Cheng and Grace Chesmore and Kolen Cheung and Yuji Chinone and Jens Chluba and Hsiao-Mei Sherry Cho and Steve Choi and Justin Clancy and Susan Clark and Asantha Cooray and Gabriele Coppi and John Corlett and Will Coulton and Thomas M. Crawford and Abigail Crites and Ari Cukierman and Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine and Wei-Ming Dai and Cail Daley and Eli Dart and Gregorg Daues and Tijmen de Haan and Cosmin Deaconu and Jacques Delabrouille and Greg Derylo and Mark Devlin and Eleonora Di Valentino and Marion Dierickx and Brad Dober and Randy Doriese and Shannon Duff and Daniel Dutcher and Cora Dvorkin and Rolando Dünner and Tarraneh Eftekhari and Joseph Eimer and Hamza El Bouhargani and Tucker Elleflot and Nick Emerson and Josquin Errard and Thomas Essinger-Hileman and Giulio Fabbian and Valentina Fanfani and Alessandro Fasano and Chang Feng and Simone Ferraro and Jeffrey P. Filippini and Raphael Flauger and Brenna Flaugher and Aurelien A. Fraisse and Josef Frisch and Andrei Frolov and Nicholas Galitzki and Patricio A. Gallardo and Silvia Galli and Ken Ganga and Martina Gerbino and Christos Giannakopoulos and Murdock Gilchriese and Vera Gluscevic and Neil Goeckner-Wald and David Goldfinger and Daniel Green and Paul Grimes and Daniel Grin and Evan Grohs and Riccardo Gualtieri and Vic Guarino and Jon E. Gudmundsson and Ian Gullett and Sam Guns and Salman Habib and Gunther Haller and Mark Halpern and Nils W. Halverson and Shaul Hanany and Emma Hand and Kathleen Harrington and Masaya Hasegawa and Matthew Hasselfield and Masashi Hazumi and Katrin Heitmann and Shawn Henderson and Brandon Hensley and Ryan Herbst and Carlos Hervias-Caimapo and J. Colin Hill and Richard Hills and Eric Hivon and Renée Hlozek and Anna Ho and Gil Holder and Matt Hollister and William Holzapfel and John Hood and Selim Hotinli and Alec Hryciuk and Johannes Hubmayr and Kevin M. Huffenberger and Howard Hui and Roberto Ibá nez and Ayodeji Ibitoye and Margaret Ikape and Kent Irwin and Cooper Jacobus and Oliver Jeong and Bradley R. Johnson and Doug Johnstone and William C. Jones and John Joseph and Baptiste Jost and Jae Hwan Kang and Ari Kaplan and Kirit S. Karkare and Nobuhiko Katayama and Reijo Keskitalo and Cesiley King and Theodore Kisner and Matthias Klein and Lloyd Knox and Brian J. Koopman and Arthur Kosowsky and John Kovac and Ely D. Kovetz and Alex Krolewski and Donna Kubik and Steve Kuhlmann and Chao-Lin Kuo and Akito Kusaka and Anne Lähteenmäki and Kenny Lau and Charles R. Lawrence and Adrian T. Lee and Louis Legrand and Matthaeus Leitner and Clément Leloup and Antony Lewis and Dale Li and Eric Linder and Ioannis Liodakis and Jia Liu and Kevin Long and Thibaut Louis and Marilena Loverde and Lindsay Lowry and Chunyu Lu and Phil Lubin and Yin-Zhe Ma and Thomas Maccarone and Mathew S. Madhavacheril and Felipe Maldonado and Adam Mantz and Gabriela Marques and Frederick Matsuda and Philip Mauskopf and Jared May and Heather McCarrick and Ken McCracken and Jeffrey McMahon and P. Daniel Meerburg and Jean-Baptiste Melin and Felipe Menanteau and Joel Meyers and Marius Millea and Vivian Miranda and Don Mitchell and Joseph Mohr and Lorenzo Moncelsi and Maria Elena Monzani and Magdy Moshed and Tony Mroczkowski and Suvodip Mukherjee and Moritz Münchmeyer and Daisuke Nagai and Chandan Nagarajappa and Johanna Nagy and Toshiya Namikawa and Federico Nati and Tyler Natoli and Simran Nerval and Laura Newburgh and Hogan Nguyen and Erik Nichols and Andrina Nicola and Michael D. Niemack and Brian Nord and Tim Norton and Valentine Novosad and Roger O'Brient and Yuuki Omori and Giorgio Orlando and Benjamin Osherson and Rachel Osten and Stephen Padin and Scott Paine and Bruce Partridge and Sanjaykumar Patil and Don Petravick and Matthew Petroff and Elena Pierpaoli and Mauricio Pilleux and Levon Pogosian and Karthik Prabhu and Clement Pryke and Giuseppe Puglisi and Benjamin Racine and Srinivasan Raghunathan and Alexandra Rahlin and Marco Raveri and Ben Reese and Christian L. Reichardt and Mathieu Remazeilles and Arianna Rizzieri and Graca Rocha and Natalie A. Roe and Kaja Rotermund and Anirban Roy and John E. Ruhl and Joe Saba and Noah Sailer and Maria Salatino and Benjamin Saliwanchik and Leonid Sapozhnikov and Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao and Lauren Saunders and Emmanuel Schaan and Alessandro Schillaci and Benjamin Schmitt and Douglas Scott and Neelima Sehgal and Sarah Shandera and Blake D. Sherwin and Erik Shirokoff and Corwin Shiu and Sara M. Simon and Baibhav Singari and Anze Slosar and David Spergel and Tyler St. Germaine and Suzanne T. Staggs and Antony A. Stark and Glenn D. Starkman and Bryan Steinbach and Radek Stompor and Chris Stoughton and Aritoki Suzuki and Osamu Tajima and Chris Tandoi and Grant P. Teply and Gregg Thayer and Keith Thompson and Ben Thorne and Peter Timbie and Maurizio Tomasi and Cynthia Trendafilova and Matthieu Tristram and Carole Tucker and Gregory Tucker and Caterina Umiltà and Alexander van Engelen and Joshiwa van Marrewijk and Eve M. Vavagiakis and Clara Vergès and Joaquin D. Vieira and Abigail G. Vieregg and Kasey Wagoner and Benjamin Wallisch and Gensheng Wang and Guo-Jian Wang and Scott Watson and Duncan Watts and Chris Weaver and Lukas Wenzl and Ben Westbrook and Martin White and Nathan Whitehorn and Andrew Wiedlea and Paul Williams and Robert Wilson and Harrison Winch and Edward J. Wollack and W. L. Kimmy Wu and Zhilei Xu and Volodymyr G. Yefremenko and Cyndia Yu and David Zegeye and Jeff Zivick and Andrea Zonca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.08024},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Contribution to Snowmass 2021. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1908.01062, arXiv:1907.04473

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