QUBIC: Exploring the Primordial Universe with the Q&U Bolometric Interferometer

Aniello Mennella , Peter Ade , Giorgio Amico , Didier Auguste (1) , Jonathan Aumont (2) , Stefano Banfi , Gustavo Barbaràn , Paola Battaglia , Elia Battistelli , Alessandro Baù , Benoit Bélier (3) , David G. Bennett , Laurent Bergé (4) , Jean Philippe Bernard (5) , Marco Bersanelli , Marie-Anne Bigot-Sazy (6) , Nathan Bleurvacq (6) , Juan Bonaparte , Julien Bonis (1) , Emory Bunn , David Burke , Daniele Buzi , Alessandro Buzzelli , Francesco Cavaliere , Pierre Chanial (6) , Claude Chapron (6) , Romain Charlassier (6) , 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 (4) , Alberto Etchegoyen , Adrián Fasciszewski , Cristian Franceschet , Martin Miguel Gamboa Lerena , Beatriz Garcia , Xavier Garrido (1) , Michel Gaspard (1) , Amanda Gault , Donnacha Gayer , Massimo Gervasi , Martin Giard (5) , Yannick Giraud Héraud (6) , Mariano Gómez Berisso , Manuel González , Marcin Gradziel , Laurent Grandsire (6) , Eric Guerard (1) , Jean Christophe Hamilton (6) , Diego Harari , Vic Haynes , Sophie Henrot Versillé (1) , Duc Thuong Hoang (6) , Nicolas Holtzer (4) , Federico Incardona , Eric Jules (1) , Jean Kaplan (6) , Andrei Korotkov , Christian Kristukat , Luca Lamagna , Sotiris Loucatos (6) , Thibaut Louis (1) , Amy Lowitz , Vladimir Lukovic , Raùl Horacio Luterstein , Bruno Maffei (2) , Stefanos Marnieros (4) , Silvia Masi , Angelo Mattei , Andrew May , Mark Mcculloch , Maria Clementina Medina , Lorenzo Mele , Simon J. Melhuish , Ludovic Montier (5) , Louise Mousset (6) , Luis Mariano Mundo , John Anthony Murphy , James David Murphy , Creidhe O'Sullivan , Emiliano Olivieri (4) , Alessandro Paiella , Francois Pajot (5) , Andrea Passerini , Hernan Pastoriza , Alessandro Pelosi , Camille Perbost (6) , Maurizio Perciballi , Federico Pezzotta , Francesco Piacentini , Michel Piat (6) , Lucio Piccirillo , Giampaolo Pisano , Gianluca Polenta , Damien Prêle (6) , Roberto Puddu , Damien Rambaud (5) , Pablo Ringegni , Gustavo E. Romero , Maria Salatino (6) , Alessandro Schillaci , Claudia G. Scóccola , Stephen P. Scully , Sebastiano Spinelli , Guillaume Stankowiak (6) , Michail Stolpovskiy (6) , Federico Suarez , Andrea Tartari , Jean Pierre Thermeau (6) , Peter Timbie , Maurizio Tomasi , Steve A. Torchinsky (6) , Matthieu Tristram (1) , Carole E. Tucker , Gregory S. Tucker , Sylvain Vanneste (1) , Daniele Viganò , Nicola Vittorio , Fabrice Voisin (6) , Robert Watson , Francois Wicek (1) , Mario Zannoni , Antonio Zullo

1 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
2 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
3 C2N - Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies [Orsay]
4 CSNSM - Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière
5 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
6 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie

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.

Mots clés: B-modes; bolometers; Cosmic Microwave Background; inflation; polarimetry; polarization: monitoring; interferometer; bolometer; cosmic background radiation: polarization; detector: sensitivity; microwaves; imaging; cosmic background radiation: B-mode

Domaines: Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Aniello Mennella, Peter Ade, Giorgio Amico, Didier Auguste, Jonathan Aumont, et al.. QUBIC: Exploring the Primordial Universe with the Q&U Bolometric Interferometer. 7th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Jul 2018, Kolymbari, Greece. pp.42, ⟨10.3390/universe5020042⟩. ⟨hal-02051487⟩