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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 Christos Giannakopoulos , Clara Vergès , P. A. R. Ade , Zeeshan Ahmed , Mandana Amiri , Denis Barkats , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Colin A. Bischoff , Dominic Beck , James J. Bock , Hans Boenish , Victor Buza , James R. Cheshire , Jake Connors , James Cornelison , Michael Crumrine , Ari Jozef Cukierman , Edward Denison , Marion Dierickx , Lionel Duband , Miranda Eiben , Brodi D. Elwood , Sofia Fatigoni , Jeff P. Filippini , Antonio Fortes , Min Gao , Neil Goeckner-Wald , David C. Goldfinger , James A. Grayson , Paul K. Grimes , Grantland Hall , George Halal , Mark Halpern , Emma Hand , Sam A. Harrison , Shawn Henderson , Johannes Hubmayr , Howard Hui , Kent D. Irwin , Jae Hwan Kang , Kirit S. Karkare , Sinan Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , Chao-Lin Kuo , King Lau , Margaret Lautzenhiser , Amber Lennox , Tongtian Liu , Koko G. Megerian , Oliver Miller , Lorenzo Minutolo , Lorenzo Moncelsi , Yuka Nakato , H. T. Nguyen , Roger O'brient , Anika Patel , Matthew A. Petroff , Anna R. Polish , Nathan Precup , Thomas Prouve , Clement Pryke , Carl D. Reintsema , Thibault Romand , Maria Salatino , Alessandro Schillaci , Benjamin Schmitt , Baibhav Singari , Ahmed Soliman , Tyler St Germaine , Aaron Steiger , Bryan Steinbach , Rashmi Sudiwala , Keith L. Thompson , Calvin Tsai , Carole Tucker , Anthony D. Turner , Abigail G. Vieregg , Albert Wandui , Alexis C. Weber , Justin Willmert , Wai Ling K. Wu , Hung-I Yang , Cyndia Yu , Lingzhen Zeng , Cheng Zhang , Silvia Zhang

(abridged for arXiv) We report results from the BICEP2 experiment, a cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarimeter specifically designed to search for the signal of inflationary gravitational waves in the B-mode power spectrum around…

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