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QUBIC: A Fizeau Interferometer Targeting Primordial B-Modes

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Q and U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology (QUBIC) is a Fizeau interferometer sensitive to linear polarisation, to be deployed at the Antarctic station of Dome C. This experiment in its final configuration will be operated at 97, 150 and 220 GHz and is intended to target CMB primordial B-modes in a multipole window \(20<\ell <150\). A sensitivity of \(r = 0.05\) (95 % CL) can be reached by the first module alone, after 2 years of operation. Here we review in particular its working principles, and we show how the QUBIC interferometric configuration can be considered equivalent to a pupil-plane filtered imaging system. In this context, we show how our instrument can be self-calibrated. Finally, we conclude by showing an overview of the first dual-band module (150/220 GHz), which will serve also as a demonstrator for the subsequent units, and review the technological choices we made for each subsystem, with particular emphasis on the detection system.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the financial support from UnivEarthS Labex programme of Sorbonne Paris Cité (ANR-10-LABX-0023 and ANR-11-IDEX-0005-02), the CNRS, the ANR and the Region Ile de France that is supporting us through the DIM-ACAV programme. We acknowledge also the financial support from PNRA.

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  1. Laboratoire APC - CNRS, Université Paris-Diderot, 75205, Paris, France

    A. Tartari, M. A. Bigot-Sazy, N. Bleurvacq, J. Brossard, D. Cammilleri, P. Chanial, C. Chapron, T. Decourcelle, A. Ghribi, Y. Giraud-Héraud, L. Grandsire, J. Ch. Hamilton, J. Kaplan, J. Martino, C. Perbost, M. Piat, D. Prêle, M. M. Stolpovskiy & F. Voisin

  2. Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France

    J. Aumont & F. Pajot

  3. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    S. Banfi, A. Baù, M. Gervasi, A. Passerini & M. Zannoni

  4. Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    P. Battaglia, M. Bersanelli, F. Cavaliere, F. Del Torto, C. Franceschet, A. Mennella & D. Viganò

  5. Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    E. S. Battistelli, D. Buzi, A. Coppolecchia, G. D’Alessandro, P. De Bernardis, M. De Petris, S. Masi, F. Piacentini, M. Salatino & A. Schillaci

  6. Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale, Orsay, France

    B. Bélier & G. Bordier

  7. NUI, Maynooth, Ireland

    D. Bennett, D. Gayer, M. Gradziel, A. Murphy, C. O’Sullivan & S. Scully

  8. CSNSM, Univ Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, 91405, Orsay, France

    L. Bergé, L. Dumoulin, N. Holtzer, J. Lande, S. Marnieros, D. Néel & O. Rigaut

  9. Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France

    J. Ph. Bernard, M. Giard, L. Montier & D. Rambaud

  10. University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA

    E. F. Bunn

  11. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    A. Gault, A. Lowitz & P. Timbie

  12. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    V. Haynes, B. Maffei, M. McCulloch, S. Melhuish, M. W. Ng, L. Piccirillo & B. Watson

  13. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    A. Korotkov & G. Tucker

  14. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK

    G. Pisano

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Tartari, A., Aumont, J., Banfi, S. et al. QUBIC: A Fizeau Interferometer Targeting Primordial B-Modes. J Low Temp Phys 184, 739–745 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-015-1398-3

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