Building BICEP Array: an instrument to study how the Universe begin

My project is part of the BICEP Array experiment. This experiment has as a final goal finding an answer to the biggest question of all times: how did the universe begin? What happened in the very first moments?
We are going to achieve this through a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background, the oldest (and closest to the Big Bang) radiation we can observe. This radiation, and in particular its polarization, is predicted to contain prints revealing what happened in the very first moments of life of the Universe, but no telescope has been able to reveal them yet. These prints are predicted to be very faint and a very high sensitivity and low noise instrument is required to detect them. This is what BICEP Array is going to achieve. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Halpern

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Partner:

California Institute of Technology

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

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