CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization
CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization
We summarize the utility of precise cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization measurements as probes of the physics of inflation. We focus on the prospects for using CMB measurements to differentiate various inflationary mechanisms. In particular, a detection of primordial B-mode polarization would demonstrate that inflation occurred at a very high …