The cosmic microwave background for pedestrians: A review for particle and nuclear physicists

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Volumn 57, Issue , 2007, Pages 245-283

  Samtleben, Dorothea ^a   Staggs, Suzanne ^b   Winstein, Bruce ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

CMB; Cosmology; Inflation; Particle physics; Polarization; Receivers

Indexed keywords

EID: 37049023839     PISSN: 01638998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nucl.54.070103.181232     Document Type: Review

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