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Published July 21, 2008 | Published
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EBEX: the E and B Experiment

Abstract

The E and B Experiment, EBEX, is a Cosmic Microwave Background polarization experiment designed to detect or set upper limits on the signature of primordial gravity waves. Primordial gravity waves are predicted to be produced by inflation, and a measurement of the power spectrum of these gravity waves is a measurement of the energy scale of inflation. EBEX has sufficient sensitivity to detect or set an upper limit at 95% confidence on the energy scale of inflation of < 1.4 × 10^(16) GeV. This article reviews our strategy for achieving our science goals and discusses the implementation of the instrument.

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© 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). EBEX is a NASA supported mission through grant number NNX08AG40G. We also acknowledge support from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, CNRS, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, NSF GK-12 grant 0638688, Rhode Island Space Grant, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. CB was supported in part by the NASA LTSA Grant NNG04CG90G, and BJ acknowledges a PPARC Postdoctoral Fellowship and NSF IRFP Fellowship.

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