Jul 22 – 26, 2019
Milano
Europe/Rome timezone

Detector fabrication development for the LiteBIRD satellite mission

Jul 23, 2019, 5:45 PM
1h 15m
Piazza Città di Lombardia (Milano)

Piazza Città di Lombardia

Milano

Piazza Città di Lombardia, 1, 20124 Milano MI
Poster Low Temperature Detector fabrication techniques and materials Poster session

Speaker

Dr Benjamin Westbrook (UC Berkeley)

Description

LiteBIRD is a satellite mission designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background and cosmic foregrounds from 34 to 448 GHz. This experiment aims to measure primordially generated B-mode polarization at large angular scales and will generate a dataset capable of probing many scientific inquiries such as the sum of neutrino masses. The experiment will have three optical telescopes each covering a portion of the entire frequency range. The broad frequency coverage and low optical loading conditions require development of detectors suitable for the mission. The focal plane design is driven by heritage from ground based experiments and will include both lenslet-coupled sinuous antenna pixels and horn-coupled pixels. This detector development and fabrication will take place at UC Berkeley and NIST. We present on current development status as well as future fabrication plans for LiteBIRD.

Student (Ph.D., M.Sc. or B.Sc.) N
Less than 5 years of experience since completion of Ph.D Y

Primary authors

Prof. Adrian Lee (UC Berkeley) Dr Aritoki Suzuki (LBNL) Dr Benjamin Westbrook (UC Berkeley) Dr Chris Raum (UC Berkeley) Dr Geen Hilton (NIST) Dr Gregory Jaehnig (CU Boulder) Dr Hannes Hubmayr (NIST) Mr Joseph Seibert (UC San Diego) Prof. Kam Arnold (UC San Diego) Mr Maximiliano Silva-Feaver (UC San Diego) Ms Megan Russel (UC San Diego) Dr Michael Link (NIST) Dr Michael Vissers (NIST) Prof. Nils Halverson (CU Boulder) Dr Shannon Duff (NIST) Mr Trevor Sasse (UC Berkeley)

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