Publications (48)
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background -Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales from 2 years of POLARBEAR Data
The POLARBEAR Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, M. Aguilar +79
We report an improved measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) -mode polarization power spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment at 150 GHz. By adding new data collect…
Development and characterization of the readout system for POLARBEAR-2
D. Barron, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +69
POLARBEAR-2 is a next-generation receiver for precision measurements of the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)). Scheduled to deploy…
Les Houches 2019 Physics at TeV Colliders: New Physics Working Group Report
G. Brooijmans, A. Buckley, S. Caron +87
This report presents the activities of the `New Physics' working group for the `Physics at TeV Colliders' workshop (Les Houches, France, 10--28 June, 2019). These activities includ…
Measurements of E-Mode Polarization and Temperature-E-Mode Correlation in the Cosmic Microwave Background from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data
A. T. Crites, J. W. Henning, P. A. R. Ade +63
We present measurements of -mode polarization and temperature--mode correlation in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the first season of observations with…
Design and characterization of the SPT-3G receiver
J. A. Sobrin, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +68
The SPT-3G receiver was commissioned in early 2017 on the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) to map anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). New optics, detector, an…
Millimeter Transient Point Sources in the SPTpol 100 Square Degree Survey
N. Whitehorn, T. Natoli, P. A. R. Ade +55
The millimeter transient sky is largely unexplored, with measurements limited to follow-up of objects detected at other wavelengths. High-angular-resolution telescopes designed for…
Modeling atmospheric emission for CMB ground-based observations
J. Errard, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +72
Atmosphere is one of the most important noise sources for ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. By increasing optical loading on the detectors, it amplifies t…
Searching for Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence with Polarization Data from SPTpol
F. Bianchini, W. L. K. Wu, P. A. R. Ade +69
We present a search for anisotropic cosmic birefringence in 500 deg of southern sky observed at 150 GHz with the SPTpol camera on the South Pole Telescope. We reconstruct a map…
Measurements of the Temperature and E-Mode Polarization of the CMB from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data
J. W. Henning, J. T. Sayre, C. L. Reichardt +64
We present measurements of the -mode polarization angular auto-power spectrum () and temperature--mode cross-power spectrum () of the cosmic microwave background (CMB…
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Gravitational Lensing Potential from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data
K. T. Story, D. Hanson, P. A. R. Ade +63
We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) gravitational lensing potential using data from the first two seasons of observations with SPTpol, the polarizatio…
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background B-Mode Polarization Power Spectrum at Sub-Degree Scales with POLARBEAR
The POLARBEAR Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +71
We report a measurement of the B-mode polarization power spectrum in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the POLARBEAR experiment in Chile. The faint B-mode polarization si…
Extreme gas kinematics in the z=2.2 powerful radio galaxy MRC1138-262: Evidence for efficient AGN feedback in the early Universe?
N. P. H. Nesvadba, M. D. Lehnert, F. Eisenhauer +3
To explain the properties of the most massive low-redshift galaxies and the shape of their mass function, recent models of galaxy evolution include strong AGN feedback to complemen…
Evidence for Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization from Cross-correlation with the Cosmic Infrared Background
POLARBEAR Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +73
We reconstruct the gravitational lensing convergence signal from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization data taken by the POLARBEAR experiment and cross-correlate it with C…
The DAQ system of the 12,000 Channel CMS High Granularity Calorimeter Prototype
B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +327
The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC will be upgraded to accommodate the 5-fold increase in the instantaneous luminosity expected at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). Concomitant wit…
Compact radio sources and jet-driven AGN feedback in the early Universe: Constraints from integral-field spectroscopy
N. P. H. Nesvadba, M. D. Lehnert, C. De Breuck +2
To investigate the impact of radio jets during the formation epoch of their massive host galaxies, we present an analysis of two massive, log(M_stel/ M_sun)~10.6 and 11.3, compact…
The ELFIN Mission
V. Angelopoulos, E. Tsai, L. Bingley +79
The Electron Loss and Fields Investigation with a Spatio-Temporal Ambiguity-Resolving option (ELFIN-STAR, or simply: ELFIN) mission comprises two identical 3-Unit (3U) CubeSats on…
Constraints on Cosmological Parameters from the 500 deg SPTpol Lensing Power Spectrum
F. Bianchini, W. L. K. Wu, P. A. R. Ade +68
We present cosmological constraints based on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential power spectrum measurement from the recent 500 deg SPTpol survey, the most…
Measurements of Sub-degree B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background from 100 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data
R. Keisler, S. Hoover, N. Harrington +63
We present a measurement of the -mode polarization power spectrum (the spectrum) from 100 of sky observed with SPTpol, a polarization-sensitive receiver cu…
Opportunities in Flavour Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC
A. Cerri, V. V. Gligorov, S. Malvezzi +300
Motivated by the success of the flavour physics programme carried out over the last decade at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we characterize in detail the physics potential of it…
Mass Calibration of Optically Selected DES clusters using a Measurement of CMB-Cluster Lensing with SPTpol Data
S. Raghunathan, S. Patil, E. Baxter +129
We use cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from the 500 deg SPTpol survey to measure the stacked lensing convergence of galaxy clusters from the Dark Energy Su…
Year two instrument status of the SPT-3G cosmic microwave background receiver
A. N. Bender, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +86
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a millimeter-wavelength telescope designed for high-precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The SPT measures both the tem…
Fractional Polarisation of Extragalactic Sources in the 500-square-degree SPTpol Survey
N. Gupta, C. L. Reichardt, P. A. R. Ade +77
We study the polarisation properties of extragalactic sources at 95 and 150 GHz in the SPTpol 500 deg survey. We estimate the polarised power by stacking maps at known source p…
Performance of Al-Mn Transition-Edge Sensor Bolometers in SPT-3G
A. J. Anderson, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +86
SPT-3G is a polarization-sensitive receiver, installed on the South Pole Telescope, that measures the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from degree to arcminute s…
SINFONI in the Galactic Center: young stars and IR flares in the central light month
F. Eisenhauer, R. Genzel, T. Alexander +18
We report 75 milli-arcsec resolution, near-IR imaging spectroscopy within the central 30 light days of the Galactic Center [...]. To a limiting magnitude of K~16, 9 of 10 stars in…
The POLARBEAR-2 and Simons Array Focal Plane Fabrication Status
B. Westbrook, P. A. R. Ade, M. Aguilar +90
We present on the status of POLARBEAR-2 A (PB2-A) focal plane fabrication. The PB2-A is the first of three telescopes in the Simon Array (SA), which is an array of three cosmic mic…
An Improved Measurement of the Secondary Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies from the SPT-SZ + SPTpol Surveys
C. L. Reichardt, S. Patil, P. A. R. Ade +74
We report new measurements of millimeter-wave power spectra in the angular multipole range (angular scales ). By add…
Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Lensing Power Spectrum with the POLARBEAR experiment
POLARBEAR Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +70
Gravitational lensing due to the large-scale distribution of matter in the cosmos distorts the primordial Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and thereby induces new, small-scale …
Measurements of B-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background from 500 Square Degrees of SPTpol Data
J. T. Sayre, C. L. Reichardt, J. W. Henning +62
We report a B-mode power spectrum measurement from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization anisotropy observations made using the SPTpol instrument on the South Pole Tel…
CMB Polarization B-mode Delensing with SPTpol and Herschel
A. Manzotti, K. T. Story, W. L. K. Wu +60
We present a demonstration of delensing the observed cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization anisotropy. This process of reducing the gravitational-lensing generated…
Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter prototype to charged pion beams of 20300 GeV/c
B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +454
The upgrade of the CMS experiment for the high luminosity operation of the LHC comprises the replacement of the current endcap calorimeter by a high granularity sampling calorimete…
Characterization and performance of the second-year SPT-3G focal plane
D. Dutcher, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +68
The third-generation instrument for the 10-meter South Pole Telescope, SPT-3G, was first installed in January 2017. In addition to completely new cryostats, secondary telescope opt…
Observation of the rare decay from the combined analysis of CMS and LHCb data
The CMS, LHCb Collaborations, : +2807
A joint measurement is presented of the branching fractions and in proton-proton collisions at the LHC by the CMS and LHCb experiments. The data…
Response of a CMS HGCAL silicon-pad electromagnetic calorimeter prototype to 20-300 GeV positrons
B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +385
The Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration is designing a new high-granularity endcap calorimeter, HGCAL, to be installed later this decade. As part of this development work, a protot…
SPT-3G: A Next-Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Experiment on the South Pole Telescope
B. A. Benson, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +61
We describe the design of a new polarization sensitive receiver, SPT-3G, for the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT). The SPT-3G receiver will deliver a factor of ~20 improvement i…
A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing Potential and Power Spectrum from 500 deg of SPTpol Temperature and Polarization Data
W. L. K. Wu, L. M. Mocanu, P. A. R. Ade +68
We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing potential using 500 deg of 150 GHz data from the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The lens…
Energetic electron precipitation driven by electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves from ELFIN's low altitude perspective
V. Angelopoulos, X. -J. Zhang, A. V. Artemyev +83
We review comprehensive observations of electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) wave-driven energetic electron precipitation using data from the energetic electron detector on the Ele…
SINFONI Integral Field Spectroscopy of z~2 UV-selected Galaxies: Rotation Curves and Dynamical Evolution
N. M. Forster Schreiber, R. Genzel, M. D. Lehnert +14
We present 0.5" resolution near-IR integral field spectroscopy of the Ha line emission of 14 z~2 UV-selected BM/BX galaxies obtained with SINFONI at ESO/VLT. The mean Ha half-light…
The SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey
L. E. Bleem, S. Bocquet, B. Stalder +135
We describe the observations and resultant galaxy cluster catalog from the 2770 deg SPTpol Extended Cluster Survey (SPT-ECS). Clusters are identified via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich…
Galaxy Clusters Selected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the SPTpol 100-Square-Degree Survey
N. Huang, L. E. Bleem, B. Stalder +74
We present a catalog of galaxy cluster candidates detected in 100 square degrees surveyed with the SPTpol receiver on the South Pole Telescope. The catalog contains 89 candidates d…
Design and Bolometer Characterization of the SPT-3G First-year Focal Plane
W. Everett, P. A. R. Ade, Z. Ahmed +73
During the austral summer of 2016-17, the third-generation camera, SPT-3G, was installed on the South Pole Telescope, increasing the detector count in the focal plane by an order o…
Broadband anti-reflective coatings for cosmic microwave background experiments
A. Nadolski, A. M. Kofman, J. D. Vieira +71
The desire for higher sensitivity has driven ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to employ ever larger focal planes, which in turn require larger reimaging o…
Risk management for analytical methods: conciliating objectives of methods, validation phase and routine decision rules
Myriam Maumy, B. Boulanger, W. Dewe +2
In the industries that involved either chemistry or biology, such as pharmaceutical industries, chemical industries or food industry, the analytical methods are the necessary eyes…
On-sky performance of the SPT-3G frequency-domain multiplexed readout
A. N. Bender, A. J. Anderson, J. S. Avva +86
Frequency-domain multiplexing (fMux) is an established technique for the readout of large arrays of transition edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each TES in a multiplexing module has a…
Higgs Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC
M. Cepeda, S. Gori, P. Ilten +374
The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, was a success achieved with only a percent of the entire dataset foreseen for the LHC. It opened a lands…
A Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol
S. Raghunathan, S. Patil, E. Baxter +126
We report the first detection of gravitational lensing due to galaxy clusters using only the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The lensing signal is obtained u…
The POLARBEAR-2 and the Simons Array Experiment
A. Suzuki, P. Ade, Y. Akiba +86
We present an overview of the design and status of the \Pb-2 and the Simons Array experiments. \Pb-2 is a Cosmic Microwave Background polarimetry experiment which aims to character…
The Large Hadron-Electron Collider at the HL-LHC
P. Agostini, H. Aksakal, S. Alekhin +333
The Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) is designed to move the field of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) to the energy and intensity frontier of particle physics. Exploiting ener…
Construction and commissioning of CMS CE prototype silicon modules
B. Acar, G. Adamov, C. Adloff +327
As part of its HL-LHC upgrade program, the CMS Collaboration is developing a High Granularity Calorimeter (CE) to replace the existing endcap calorimeters. The CE is a sampling cal…