Probing cosmic inflation with the LiteBIRD cosmic microwave background polarization survey

Abstract LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and fundamental physics. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) selected LiteBIRD in May 2019 as a strategic large-class (L-class) mission, with an expected launch in the late 2020s using JAXA’s H3 rocket. LiteBIRD is planned to orbit the Sun–Earth Lagrangian point L2, where it will map the cosmic microwave background polarization over the entire sky for three years, with three telescopes in 15 frequency bands between 34 and 448 GHz, to achieve an unprecedented total sensitivity of $2.2\, \mu$K-arcmin, with a typical…

• IS
  Illinois State Academy of Science
• MO
  Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
• CN
  Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
• AS
  Agenzia Spaziale Italiana

  Awards: 2020-9-HH.0, 2016-24-H.1-2018
• CN
  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
• IN
  Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
• JS
  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• IN
  Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
• JA
  Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
• NP
  Nuclear Physics