Optimization of the half wave plate configuration for the LSPE-SWIPE experiment

7th Young Researcher Meeting

Buzzelli, A.^1,4 ; De Gasperis, G.^3,4 ; De Bernardis, P.^1,2 ; Masi, S.^1,2 ; Vittorio, N.^3,4

Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Universita di Roma, piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Roma

I-00185, Italy^1

Sezione INFN Roma 1, piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Roma

I-00185, Italy^2

Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Roma tor Vergata, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Roma

I-00133, Italy^3

Sezione INFN Roma 2, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, Roma

I-00133, Italy^4

关键词: Accurate measurement;    B-Mode polarization;    CMB polarization;    Cosmic microwave backgrounds;    Observational cosmology;    Polarization modulators;    Short wavelengths;    Systematic effects;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/841/1/012001/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/841/1/012001

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The search for the B-mode polarization of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the new frontier of observational Cosmology. A B-mode detection would give an ultimate confirmation to the existence of a primordial Gravitational Wave (GW) background as predicted in the inflationary scenario. Several experiments have been designed or planned to observe B-modes. In this work we focus on the forthcoming Large Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE) experiment, that will be devoted to the accurate measurement of CMB polarization at large angular scales. LSPE consists of a balloon-borne bolometric instrument, the Short Wavelength Instrument for the Polarization Explorer (SWIPE), and a ground-based coherent polarimeter array, the STRatospheric Italian Polarimeter (STRIP). SWIPE will employ a rotating Half Wave Plate (HWP) polarization modulator to mitigate the systematic effects due to instrumental non-idealities. We present here preliminary forecasts aimed at optimizing the HWP configuration.