The Cosmic Microwave Background for Pedestrians: A Review for Particle and Nuclear Physicists

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Vol. 57: 245-283 (Volume publication date November 2007)

DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nucl.54.070103.181232

Dorothea Samtleben,¹ Suzanne Staggs,² and Bruce Winstein³

¹Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, D-53121 Bonn, Germany; email: dsamtleb@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

²Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544; email: staggs@princeton.edu

³Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637; email: bruce@kicp.uchicago.edu

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ABSTRACT

We intend to show how fundamental science is drawn from the patterns in the temperature and polarization fields of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and thus to motivate the field of CMB research. We discuss the field's history, potential science and current status, contaminating foregrounds, detection and analysis techniques, and future prospects. Throughout the review we draw comparisons to particle physics, a field that has many of the same goals and that has gone through many of the same stages.

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