The 'Stage-4' ground-based cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment, CMB-S4, consisting of dedicated telescopes equipped with highly sensitive superconducting cameras operating at the South Pole, the high Chilean Atacama plateau, and possibly northern hemisphere sites, will provide a dramatic leap forward in our understanding of the fundamental nature of space and time and the evolution of the Universe. CMB-S4 will be designed to cross critical thresholds in testing inflation, determining the number and masses of the neutrinos, constraining possible new light relic particles, providing precise constraints on the nature of dark energy, and testing general relativity on large scales.

Bradford Benson
Senior Member

John Carlstrom
Senior Member

Clarence Chang
Senior Member

Tom Crawford
Senior Researcher

Jeffrey McMahon
Senior Member

Abigail Vieregg
Senior Member

Alexandra Sasha Rahlin
Senior Researcher

Schematic timeline showing the expected increase in sensitivity (μK2) and a few of the key cosmological parameters for Stage-3, along with the the threshold-crossing
goals targeted for CMB-S4.