Journal article
Calibration plan for the SBC 10-kg liquid argon detector with 100 eV target threshold
JINST, v 21(3), P03020
01 Mar 2026
Abstract
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) Collaboration isdesigning a new generation of low background, noble liquid bubblechamber experiments with sub-keV nuclear recoil threshold. Theseexperiments combine the electronic recoil blindness of a bubblechamber with the energy resolution of noble liquid scintillation,and maintain electron recoil discrimination at higher degrees ofsuperheat (lower nuclear recoil thresholds) than Freon-based bubblechambers. A 10-kg liquid argon bubble chamber has the potential toset world leading limits on the dark matter nucleon cross-sectionfor 𝒪(GeV/c$^{2}$) masses, and to perform a highstatistics coherent elastic neutrino nuclear scattering measurementwith reactor neutrinos. This work presents a detailed calibrationplan to measure the detector response of these experiments,combining photoneutron scattering with two new techniques to inducesub-keV nuclear recoils: nuclear Thomson scattering and thermalneutron capture.
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- Title
- Calibration plan for the SBC 10-kg liquid argon detector with 100 eV target threshold
- Creators
- E. Alfonso-Pita - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoD. Baxter - Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryE. Behnke - Indiana University South BendB. Broerman - Queen's UniversityK. Clark - Queen's UniversityJ. Corbett - Queen's UniversityM. Crisler - Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryC. E. Dahl - Northwestern UniversityK. Dering - Queen's UniversityA.de St. Croix - Queen's U., KingstonD. Durnford - University of AlbertaP. Giampa - TRIUMFJ. Hall - SnolabO. Harris - Northeastern Illinois UniversityH. Hawley-Herrera - Queen's UniversityL. Joseph - University of California, Santa BarbaraA. Kucich - Northwestern UniversityN. Lamb - Drexel UniversityM. Laurin - Université de MontréalI. Levine - Indiana University South BendW. H. Lippincott - University of California, Santa BarbaraB. Mitra - Northwestern UniversityR. Neilson - Drexel UniversityO. Nicholson - Northwestern UniversityM.-C. Piro - University of AlbertaG. Putnam - Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryD. Pyda - Drexel UniversityZ. Sheng - Northwestern UniversityG. Sweeney - Queen's UniversityO. Valdés-Martínez - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoE. Vázquez-Jáuregui - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoS. Westerdale - University of California, RiversideT. J. Whitis - University of California, Santa BarbaraS. Windle - Drexel UniversityA. Wright - Queen's UniversityE. Wyman - Queen's UniversityR. Zhang - University of California, Santa Barbara
- Publication Details
- JINST, v 21(3), P03020
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Number of pages
- 31
- Grant note
- DOE Office of Science: DE-SC0015910, E-SC0017815, DE-SC0024254, DE-SC0011702 National Science Foundation: DMR-1936432, PHY-2310112, PHY-2411655, SECIHTI CBF-2025-I-1589 DGAPA UNAM: IN105923, IN102326 PAPIIT: IN105923, IN102326 Canada First Research Excellence Fund through the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Digital Research Alliance of Canada NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral program
This work was supported by DOE Office of Science Grants No. DE-SC0015910, No. E-SC0017815, No. DE-SC0024254, and No. DE-SC0011702, National Science Foundation Grants No. DMR-1936432, No. PHY-2310112, and No. PHY-2411655, Project No. SECIHTI CBF-2025-I-1589, DGAPA UNAM Grants No. PAPIIT IN105923 and IN102326. We acknowledge support from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund through the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) . We also thank the Digital Research Alliance of Canada [51] and the Centre for Advanced Computing, ACENET, Calcul Quebec, Compute Ontario, and WestGrid for computational support. The work of D. Durnford and A. de St. Croix was supported by the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships - Doctoral program.
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001739860200001
- Other Identifier
- 991022171176904721