MAX SEARCHES FOR INTERMEDIATE-SCALE ANISOTROPY OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND

The balloon-borne Millimeter-Wave Anisotropy Experiment (MAX) is desig ned to measure the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CM B) on angular scales from 0.3 to several degrees. The long term goal i s to measure many pixels on the sky at a level approaching DELTAT/T(CM B) = 1 x 10(-6). These angular scales fill an important gap between th e angular scales less-than-or-equal-to 10 arcmin which are accessible from conventional radio telescopes and the angular scales greater-than -or-equal-to 7 deg which have been measured by the COBE satellite. The y are of particular importance to scientific issues such as galaxy for mation, dark matter, and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect.