Calibration plan for the SBC 10-kg liquid argon detector with 100 eV target threshold

E. Alfonso-Pita; D. Baxter; E. Behnke; B. Broerman; K. Clark; J. Corbett; M. Crisler; C. E. Dahl; K. Dering; A.de St. Croix; D. Durnford; P. Giampa; J. Hall; O. Harris; H. Hawley-Herrera; L. Joseph; A. Kucich; N. Lamb; M. Laurin; I. Levine; W. H. Lippincott; B. Mitra; R. Neilson; O. Nicholson; M.-C. Piro; G. Putnam; D. Pyda; Z. Sheng; G. Sweeney; O. Valdés-Martínez; E. Vázquez-Jáuregui; S. Westerdale; T. J. Whitis; S. Windle; A. Wright; E. Wyman; R. Zhang

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/21/03/P03020

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Calibration plan for the SBC 10-kg liquid argon detector with 100 eV target threshold

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Calibration plan for the SBC 10-kg liquid argon detector with 100 eV target threshold

E. Alfonso-Pita, D. Baxter, E. Behnke, B. Broerman, K. Clark, J. Corbett, M. Crisler, C. E. Dahl, K. Dering, A.de St. Croix, …

JINST, v 21(3), P03020

01 Mar 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/21/03/P03020

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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 México
D. Baxter - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
E. Behnke - Indiana University South Bend
B. Broerman - Queen's University
K. Clark - Queen's University
J. Corbett - Queen's University
M. Crisler - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
C. E. Dahl - Northwestern University
K. Dering - Queen's University
A.de St. Croix - Queen's U., Kingston
D. Durnford - University of Alberta
P. Giampa - TRIUMF
J. Hall - Snolab
O. Harris - Northeastern Illinois University
H. Hawley-Herrera - Queen's University
L. Joseph - University of California, Santa Barbara
A. Kucich - Northwestern University
N. Lamb - Drexel University
M. Laurin - Université de Montréal
I. Levine - Indiana University South Bend
W. H. Lippincott - University of California, Santa Barbara
B. Mitra - Northwestern University
R. Neilson - Drexel University
O. Nicholson - Northwestern University
M.-C. Piro - University of Alberta
G. Putnam - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
D. Pyda - Drexel University
Z. Sheng - Northwestern University
G. Sweeney - Queen's University
O. Valdés-Martínez - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
E. Vázquez-Jáuregui - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
S. Westerdale - University of California, Riverside
T. J. Whitis - University of California, Santa Barbara
S. Windle - Drexel University
A. Wright - Queen's University
E. Wyman - Queen's University
R. Zhang - University of California, Santa Barbara
Publication Details: JINST, v 21(3), P03020
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Resource Type: Journal article
Language: English
Academic Unit: Physics
Other Identifier: 991022171176904721

Calibration plan for the SBC 10-kg liquid argon detector with 100 eV target threshold

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