Publications (21)
Cosmic Birefringence from Planck Public Release 4
P. Diego-Palazuelos, J. R. Eskilt, Y. Minami +12
We search for the signature of parity-violating physics in the Cosmic Microwave Background using Planck polarization data from the Public Release 4 (PR4 or ). For n…
Cross-correlation of POLARBEAR CMB Polarization Lensing with High- Sub-mm Herschel-ATLAS galaxies
M. Aguilar Faundez, K. Arnold, C. Baccigalupi +45
We report a 4.8 measurement of the cross-correlation signal between the cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence reconstructed from measurements of the CMB polariz…
Characterization of a half-wave plate for cosmic microwave background circular polarization measurement with POLARBEAR
T. Fujino, S. Takakura, Y. Chinone +7
A half-wave plate (HWP) is often used as a modulator to suppress systematic error in the measurements of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. A HWP can also be used to m…
LiteBIRD Science Goals and Forecasts: constraining isotropic cosmic birefringence
E. de la Hoz, P. Diego-Palazuelos, J. Errard +112
Cosmic birefringence (CB) is the rotation of the photons' linear polarisation plane during propagation. Such an effect is a tracer of parity-violating extensions of standard electr…
A Measurement of the Degree Scale CMB B-mode Angular Power Spectrum with POLARBEAR
S. Adachi, M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez, K. Arnold +69
We present a measurement of the -mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBEAR experim…
QCD Critical Points and Their Associated Soft Modes
T. Kunihiro, Y. Minami, Z. Zhang
The mean-field level calculation shows that the QCD matter can have multiple critical points incorporating the color superconductivity under charge neutrality constraint due to the…
Robustness of cosmic birefringence measurement against Galactic foreground emission and instrumental systematics
P. Diego-Palazuelos, E. MartÃnez-González, P. Vielva +11
The polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) can be used to search for parity-violating processes like that predicted by a Chern-Simons coupling to a light pseudoscala…
Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD satellite mission
L. Montier, B. Mot, P. de Bernardis +232
LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Univer…
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…
Internal delensing of Cosmic Microwave Background polarization B-modes with the POLARBEAR experiment
S. Adachi, M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez, Y. Akiba +51
Using only cosmic microwave background polarization data from the POLARBEAR experiment, we measure -mode polarization delensing on subdegree scales at more than significan…
Dynamical Density Fluctuations around QCD Critical Point Based on Dissipative Relativistic Fluid Dynamics-possible fate of Mach cone at the critical point-
Y. Minami, T. Kunihiro
The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we study the dynamical density fluctuations around the critical point(CP) of Quantum Chromodynamics(QCD) using dissipative relativist…
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…
Probing Cosmic Inflation with the LiteBIRD Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Survey
LiteBIRD Collaboration, E. Allys, K. Arnold +188
LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and…
Cosmic Birefringence from Planck Data Release 4
P. Diego-Palazuelos, J. R. Eskilt, Y. Minami +12
We search for the signature of parity-violating physics in the cosmic microwave background, called cosmic birefringence, using the Planck data release 4. We initially find a birefr…
Observation of the Spatial Distribution of Gravitationally Bound Quantum States of Ultracold Neutrons and Its Derivation Using the Wigner Function
G. Ichikawa, S. Komamiya, Y. Kamiya +9
Ultracold neutrons (UCNs) can be bound by the potential of terrestrial gravity and a reflecting mirror. The wave function of the bound state has characteristic modulations. We carr…
Updated design of the CMB polarization experiment satellite LiteBIRD
H. Sugai, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +216
Recent developments of transition-edge sensors (TESs), based on extensive experience in ground-based experiments, have been making the sensor techniques mature enough for their app…
The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission - Sub-Kelvin Instrument
A. Suzuki, P. A. R. Ade, Y. Akiba +149
Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth…
Improved upper limit on degree-scale CMB B-mode polarization power from the 670 square-degree POLARBEAR survey
The POLARBEAR Collaboration, S. Adachi, T. Adkins +51
We report an improved measurement of the degree-scale cosmic microwave background -mode angular-power spectrum over 670 square-degree sky area at 150 GHz with POLARBEAR. In the…
LiteBIRD: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization
M. Hazumi, P. A. R. Ade, A. Adler +233
LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and…
A measurement of the CMB E-mode angular power spectrum at subdegree scales from 670 square degrees of POLARBEAR data
S. Adachi, M. A. O. Aguilar Faúndez, K. Arnold +53
We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from July 2014 to December 2016 with the POLARBE…
The Phase-I Trigger Readout Electronics Upgrade of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeters
G. Aad, A. V. Akimov, K. Al Khoury +195
The Phase-I trigger readout electronics upgrade of the ATLAS Liquid Argon calorimeters enhances the physics reach of the experiment during the upcoming operation at increasing Larg…