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Journal article
Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches
Universe (Basel), v 9(8), 346
01 Aug 2023
Abstract
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration is developing liquid-noble bubble chambers for the detection of sub-keV nuclear recoils. These detectors benefit from the electron recoil rejection inherent in moderately-superheated bubble chambers with the addition of energy reconstruction provided from the scintillation signal. The ability to measure low-energy nuclear recoils allows the search for GeV-scale dark matter and the measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering on argon from MeV-scale reactor antineutrinos. The first physics-scale detector, SBC-LAr10, is in the commissioning phase at Fermilab, where extensive engineering and calibration studies will be performed. In parallel, a functionally identical low-background version, SBC-SNOLAB, is being built for a dark matter search underground at SNOLAB. SBC-SNOLAB, with a 10 kg-yr exposure, will have sensitivity to a dark matter-nucleon cross section of 2 x 10(-42) cm(2) at 1 GeV/ c(2) dark matter mass, and future detectors could reach the boundary of the argon neutrino fog with a tonne-yr exposure. In addition, the deployment of an SBC detector at a nuclear reactor could enable neutrino physics investigations including measurements of the weak mixing angle and searches for sterile neutrinos, the neutrino magnetic moment, and the light Z' gauge boson.
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- Title
- Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches
- Creators
- Ernesto Alfonso-Pita - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoEdward Behnke - Indiana University South BendMatthew Bressler - Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USABenjamin Broerman - Queen's UniversityKenneth Clark - Queen's UniversityJonathan Corbett - Queen's UniversityC. Eric Dahl - Northwestern UniversityKoby Dering - Queen's UniversityAustin de St. Croix - Queen's UniversityDaniel Durnford - University of AlbertaPietro Giampa - Queen's UniversityJeter Hall - SnolabOrin Harris - Northeastern Illinois UniversityHector Hawley-Herrera - Queen's UniversityChristopher M. Jackson - Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryYoungtak Ko - University of AlbertaNoah Lamb - Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAMathieu Laurin - Université de MontréalIlan Levine - Indiana University BloomingtonW. Hugh Lippincott - University of California, Santa BarbaraXingxin Liu - Northwestern UniversityRussell Neilson - Drexel University, PhysicsMarie-Cecile Piro - University of AlbertaShashank Priya - Pennsylvania State UniversityDaniel Pyda - Drexel UniversityZhiheng Sheng - Northwestern UniversityGary Sweeney - SnolabEric Vazquez-Jauregui - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoShawn Westerdale - Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys & Astron, Riverside, CA 92507 USAThomas J. Whitis - University of California, Santa BarbaraAlexander Wright - Queens Univ, Dept Phys Engn Phys & Astron, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, CanadaWei Zha - Northwestern UniversityRyan Zhang - University of California, Santa BarbaraPacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Publication Details
- Universe (Basel), v 9(8), 346
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Number of pages
- 9
- Grant note
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Fermilab Lab-Directed Ramp;D program CONACyT; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACyT) Province of Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation; Ministry of Research and Innovation, Ontario Indiana University South Bend Office of Research Fermilab Cosmic Physics Center DOE Office of Science; United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0015910 / Fundacion Marcos Moshinsky DE-SC0017815; DE-SC0011702; DMR-1936432 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001056887500001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85169133996
- Other Identifier
- 991021861197104721
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- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Physics, Particles & Fields