LBNL-2016: Inflation

Session Organizers: Lloyd Knox, Raphael Flauger, Sarah Shandera

Break-out sessions:

First 40 minutes: State of the Inflation Chapter (Raphael Flauger and Sarah Shandera)

Final 20 minutes: Toward inflation-science-driven experimental design (Kovac and Dunkley)

• For a given expt set-up, what are our forecast r limits.
  • Is our forecast robust to Galactic foreground simulation?
  • Does our planned expt include sufficient null tests (including seeing a result at different frequencies, region of sky, etc)?
  • Does our forecast capture realistic systematics?
  • Is our forecast robust to different methods of foreground cleaning?
  • Does our forecast include realistic residual lensing noise?

• Can we then optimize the experimental set-up for r?

• Are design requirements (resolution, freq, sky area) same for 'high-ell' inflation parameters?

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