Optical Design and Characterization of 40-GHz Detector and Module for the BICEP Array
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Families of cosmic inflation models predict a primordial gravitational-wave
background that imprints B-mode polarization pattern in the Cosmic Microwave
Background (CMB). High sensitivity instruments with wide frequency coverage and
well-controlled systematic errors are needed to constrain the faint B-mode
amplitude. We have developed antenna-coupled Transition Edge Sensor (TES)
arrays for high-sensitivity polarized CMB observations over a wide range of
millimeter-wave bands. BICEP Array, the latest phase of the BICEP/Keck
experiment series, is a multi-receiver experiment designed to search for
inflationary B-mode polarization to a precision
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1573-7357