1. QUBIC: Exploring the Primordial Universe with the Q&U Bolometric Interferometer
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Aniello Mennella, Peter Ade, Giorgio Amico, Didier Auguste, Jonathan Aumont, Stefano Banfi, Gustavo Barbaràn, Paola Battaglia, Elia Battistelli, Alessandro Baù, Benoit Bélier, David G. Bennett, Laurent Bergé, Jean Philippe Bernard, Marco Bersanelli, Marie Anne Bigot Sazy, Nathan Bleurvacq, Juan Bonaparte, Julien Bonis, Emory Bunn, David Burke, Daniele Buzi, Alessandro Buzzelli, Francesco Cavaliere, Pierre Chanial, Claude Chapron, Romain Charlassier, Fabio Columbro, Gabriele Coppi, Alessandro Coppolecchia, Rocco D’Agostino, Giuseppe D’Alessandro, Paolo De Bernardis, Giancarlo De Gasperis, Michele De Leo, Marco De Petris, Andres Di Donato, Louis Dumoulin, Alberto Etchegoyen, Adrián Fasciszewski, Cristian Franceschet, Martin Miguel Gamboa Lerena, Beatriz Garcia, Xavier Garrido, Michel Gaspard, Amanda Gault, Donnacha Gayer, Massimo Gervasi, Martin Giard, Yannick Giraud Héraud, Mariano Gómez Berisso, Manuel González, Marcin Gradziel, Laurent Grandsire, Eric Guerard, Jean Christophe Hamilton, Diego Harari, Vic Haynes, Sophie Henrot Versillé, Duc Thuong Hoang, Nicolas Holtzer, Federico Incardona, Eric Jules, Jean Kaplan, Andrei Korotkov, Christian Kristukat, Luca Lamagna, Sotiris Loucatos, Thibaut Louis, Amy Lowitz, Vladimir Lukovic, Raùl Horacio Luterstein, Bruno Maffei, Stefanos Marnieros, Silvia Masi, Angelo Mattei, Andrew May, Mark McCulloch, Maria Clementina Medina, Lorenzo Mele, Simon J. Melhuish, Ludovic Montier, Louise Mousset, Luis Mariano Mundo, John Anthony Murphy, James David Murphy, Creidhe O’Sullivan, Emiliano Olivieri, Alessandro Paiella, Francois Pajot, Andrea Passerini, Hernan Pastoriza, Alessandro Pelosi, Camille Perbost, Maurizio Perciballi, Federico Pezzotta, Francesco Piacentini, Michel Piat, Lucio Piccirillo, Giampaolo Pisano, Gianluca Polenta, Damien Prêle, Roberto Puddu, Damien Rambaud, Pablo Ringegni, Gustavo E. Romero, Maria Salatino, Alessandro Schillaci, Claudia G. Scóccola, Stephen P. Scully, Sebastiano Spinelli, Guillaume Stankowiak, Michail Stolpovskiy, Federico Suarez, Andrea Tartari, Jean Pierre Thermeau, Peter Timbie, Maurizio Tomasi, Steve A. Torchinsky, Matthieu Tristram, Carole E. Tucker, Gregory S. Tucker, Sylvain Vanneste, Daniele Viganò, Nicola Vittorio, Fabrice Voisin, Robert Watson, Francois Wicek, Mario Zannoni, and Antonio Zullo
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B-modes ,bolometers ,Cosmic Microwave Background ,inflation ,polarimetry ,Elementary particle physics ,QC793-793.5 - Abstract
In this paper, we describe QUBIC, an experiment that will observe the polarized microwave sky with a novel approach, which combines the sensitivity of state-of-the-art bolometric detectors with the systematic effects control typical of interferometers. QUBIC’s unique features are the so-called “self-calibration”, a technique that allows us to clean the measured data from instrumental effects, and its spectral imaging power, i.e., the ability to separate the signal into various sub-bands within each frequency band. QUBIC will observe the sky in two main frequency bands: 150 GHz and 220 GHz. A technological demonstrator is currently under testing and will be deployed in Argentina during 2019, while the final instrument is expected to be installed during 2020.
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- 2019
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