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LiteBIRD: A Satellite for the Studies of B-Mode Polarization and Inflation from Cosmic Background Radiation Detection
LiteBIRD is a candidate satellite for a strategic large mission of JAXA. With its expected launch in the middle of the 2020s with a H3 rocket, LiteBIRD plans to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave bac...
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Concept Study of Optical Configurations for High-Frequency Telescope for LiteBIRD
The high-frequency telescope for LiteBIRD is designed with refractive and reflective optics. In order to improve sensitivity, this paper suggests the new optical configurations of the HFT which have approximat...
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The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission: Sub-Kelvin Instrument
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, provides convincing explana...
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The Polarbear-2 and the Simons Array Experiments
We present an overview of the design and status of the Polarbear-2 and the Simons Array experiments. Polarbear-2 is a cosmic microwave background polarimetry experiment which aims to characterize the arc-minute a...
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LiteBIRD: Mission Overview and Focal Plane Layout
LiteBIRD is a proposed CMB polarization satellite project to probe the inflationary B-mode signal. The satellite is designed to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio with a 68 % confidence level uncertainty of ...
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Mission Design of LiteBIRD
LiteBIRD is a next-generation satellite mission to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. On large angular scales the B-mode polarization of the CMB carries the imprint of...
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The POLARBEAR-2 Experiment
We present an overview of the design and development of the POLARBEAR-2 experiment. The POLARBEAR-2 experiment is a cosmic microwave background polarimetry experiment, which aims to characterize the small angu...
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Advanced characterization of ultra-low-k periodic porous silica films – pore size distribution, pore-diameter anisotropy, and size and macroscopic isotropy of domain structure
We have shown previously the results from out-of-plane and in-plane X-ray scattering /diffraction measurements together with transmission electron microscope and X-ray reflectance measurements and shown that t...
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The Valence and Spin States of Ru Ions in Magnetic Superconductors RuEu1.4Ce0.6Sr2Cu2O10−δ and RuSr2YCu2O8 Studied by 99/101Ru-NMR
We have carried out 99/101Ru-NMR, measurements at zero magnetic field in magnetic superconductors RuEu1.4Ce0.6Sr2Cu2O10−δ and RuSr2YCu2O8 to investigate charge and magnetic states of Ru ions in its magnetically o...
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X-ray detection by Nb STJs above 1.4 K
We have designed and tested a 5×5 mm2 chip which includes 24 “island” Josephson tunnel junctions (STJs) with square, circular and diamond geometries, two arrays of 100 “island” junctions and other detection devic...