Johanna Nagy (Case Western) "Probing Inflation with SPIDER, a Balloon-Borne CMB Polarimeter"
Zoom Talk 50A-5132, Berkeley, caAbstract: The generation of a stochastic gravitational wave background is a key prediction of cosmological theories of inflation. At large angular scales, these gravitational waves imprint a "B-mode" polarization pattern in the Cosmic Microwave Background, providing a new window into …