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Task Force on Cosmic Microwave Background Research

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

One of the most spectacular scientific breakthroughs in past decades was using measurements of the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) to test precisely our understanding of the history and composition of the Universe. This report presents a roadmap for leading CMB research to its logical next step, using precision polarization measurements to learn about ultra-high-energy physics and the Big Bang itself.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0604101,
  title  = {Task Force on Cosmic Microwave Background Research},
  author = {James Bock and Sarah Church and Mark Devlin and Gary Hinshaw and Andrew Lange and Adrian Lee and Lyman Page and Bruce Partridge and John Ruhl and Max Tegmark and Peter Timbie and Rainer Weiss and Bruce Winstein and Matias Zaldarriaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0604101},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

This is the final report of the DoE/NASA/NSF interagency task force on CMB research chaired by Rai Weiss. 87 pages