ERC Starting Grant · 2021
Transforming cryogenic optics for cosmic microwave background experiments
Future experiments mapping the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are designed to revolutionize our understanding of the infant universe, the standard model of particle physics, structure formation, and the nature of dark matter. A key effort involves constraining or detecting the energy scale of cosmic inflation. A detection would mark a watershed moment in cosmology and high-energy physics, but in order to push constraints significantly past current limits, we need a dramatic change in instrument characterization capabilities — the primary focus of CMBeam. To address this challenge, we propose to construct a novel cryogenic holography facility for the purposes of testing optical systems of…
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