The Origin of the Universe as Revealed Through the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Scott Dodelson , Richard Easther , Shaul Hanany , Liam Mcallister , Stephan Meyer , Lyman Page , Peter Ade , Alexander Amblard , Amjad Ashoorioon , Carlo Baccigalupi , Amedeo Balbi , J.G. Bartlett (1) , Nicola Bartolo , Daniel Baumann , Maria Beltran , Dominic Benford , Mark Birkinshaw , Jamie Bock , Dick Bond , Julian Borrill , Franois Bouchet , Michael Bridges , Emory Bunn , Erminia Calabrese , Christopher Cantalupo , Ana Caramete , Carmelita Carbone , Sean Carroll , Suchetana Chatterjee , Xingang Chen , Sarah Church , David Chuss , Carlo Contaldi , Asantha Cooray , Paolo Creminelli , Sudeep Das , Francesco De Bernardis , Paolo de Bernardis , J. Delabrouille (2) , F. Xavier Dsert , Mark Devlin , Clive Dickinson , Simon Dickler , Michael Dipirro , Matt Dobbs , Olivier Dore , Jessie Dotson , Joanna Dunkley , Cora Dvorklin , Hans Kristian Eriksen , Maria Christiana Falvella , Dave Finley , Douglas Finkbeiner , Dale Fixen , Raphael Flauger , Pablo Fosalba , Joseph Fowler , S. Galli (3) , Evalyn Gates , Walter Gear , Y. Giraud-Héraud (1) , Krzysztof Gorski , Brian Greene , Alessandro Gruppuso , Josh Gundersen , Mark Halpern , Christopher Hirata , Eric Hivon , Richard Holman , Warren Holmes , Wayne Hu , Johannes Hubmayr , Kevin Huffenberger , Howard Hui , Lam Hui , Kent Irwin , Mark Jackson , Andrew Jaffe , Bradley Johnson , Dean Johnson , William Jones , Shamit Kachru , Kenji Kadota , J. Kaplan (1) , Manoj Kaplinghat , Brian Keating , Reijo Keskitalo , Justin Khoury , Will Kinney , Theodore Kisner , Lloyd Knox , Hideo Kodama , Alan Kogut , Eiichiro Komatsu , Reijo Kosowsky , Hannu Kurki-Suonio , Jean-Michel Lamarre , Susana Landau , Samuel Leach , Louis Leblond , Adrian Lee , Erik Leitch , Rodrigo Leonardi , Julien Lesgourgues , Andrew Liddle , Eugene Lim , Michele Limon , Marilena Loverde , Philip Lubin , Enrico Lunghi , Joseph Lykken , Carolyn Mactavish , Antonio Magalhaes , Davide Maino , Victoria Martin , Sabino Matarrese , John Mather , Harsh Mathur , Tomotake Matsumura , Pieter Meerburg , Alessandro Melchiorri , Laura Mersini-Houghton , Amber Miller , Michael Milligan , Kavilan Moodley , Michael Neimack , Hogan Nguyen , Alberto Nicolis , Ian O'Dwyer , A. Olinto (4) , Luca Pagano , Enrico Pajer , Bruce Partridge , Timothy Pearson , Hiranya Peiris , Marco Peloso , Francesco Piacentini , M. Piat (1) , Lucio Piccirillo , Elena Pierpaoli , Davide Pietrobon , Giampaolo Pisano , Levon Pogosian , Dmitri Pogosyan , Nicolas Ponthieu , Lucia Popa , Clement Pryke , Christoph Raeth , Subharthi Ray , Christian Reichardt , Sara Ricciardi , Paul Richards , Antonio Riotto , Graca Rocha , John Ruhl , Benjamin Rusholme , Robert Scherrer , Claudia Scoccola , Douglas Scott , Carolyn Sealfon , Emiliano Sefusatti , Neelima Sehgal , Michael Seiffert , Paolo Serra , Sarah Shandera , Meir Shimon , Peter Shirron , Jonathan Sievers , Joe Silk , Kris Sigurdson , Robert Silverberg , Eva Silverstein , Suzanne Staggs , Glenn Starkman , Albert Stebbins , Federico Stivoli , Radek Stompor (2) , Naoshi Sugiyama , Daniel Swetz , A. Tartari (3) , Max Tegmark , Peter Timbie , Maxim Titov , Matthieu Tristram , Mark Trodden , Gregory Tucker , Jon Urrestilla , M. Veneziani (3) , Licia Verde , Joaquin Vieira , Terry Walker , David Wands , Scott Watson , Steven Weinberg , Rainer Weiss , Benjamin Wandelt , Bruce Winstein , Edward Wollack , Mark Wyman , Amit Yadav , Ki Won Yoon , Olivier Zahn , Mattias Zaldarriage , Michael Zemcov , Jonathan Zwart

1 APC - Cosmologie
2 APC-Gravitation - APC - Gravitation
3 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
4 APC - AHE - APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies

Modern cosmology has sharpened questions posed for millennia about the origin of our cosmic habitat. The age-old questions have been transformed into two pressing issues primed for attack in the coming decade: How did the Universe begin? and What physical laws govern the Universe at the highest energies? The clearest window onto these questions is the pattern of polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which is uniquely sensitive to primordial gravity waves. A detection of the special pattern produced by gravity waves would be not only an unprecedented discovery, but also a direct probe of physics at the earliest observable instants of our Universe. Experiments which map CMB polarization over the coming decade will lead us on our first steps towards answering these age-old questions.

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]

Scott Dodelson, Richard Easther, Shaul Hanany, Liam Mcallister, Stephan Meyer, et al.. The Origin of the Universe as Revealed Through the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background. 2009, pp.67. ⟨in2p3-00712233⟩