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Snowmass 2021 Scintillating Bubble Chambers: Liquid-noble Bubble Chambers for Dark Matter and CE$u$NS Detection
21 Jul 2022
Abstract
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) Collaboration is developing liquid-noble bubble chambers for the quasi-background-free detection of low-mass (GeV-scale) dark matter and coherent scattering of low-energy (MeV-scale) neutrinos (CE NS). The first physics-scale demonstrator of this technique, a 10-kg liquid argon bubble chamber dubbed SBC-LAr10, is now being commissioned at Fermilab. This device will calibrate the background discrimination power and sensitivity of superheated argon to nuclear recoils at energies down to 100 eV. A second functionally-identical detector with a focus on radiopure construction is being built for SBC's first dark matter search at SNOLAB. The projected spin-independent sensitivity of this search is approximately cm at 1 GeV dark matter particle mass. The scalability and background discrimination power of the liquid-noble bubble chamber make this technique a compelling candidate for future dark matter searches to the solar neutrino fog at 1 GeV particle mass (requiring a ton-year exposure with non-neutrino backgrounds sub-dominant to the solar CE NS signal) and for high-statistics CE NS studies at nuclear reactors.
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- Title
- Snowmass 2021 Scintillating Bubble Chambers: Liquid-noble Bubble Chambers for Dark Matter and CE$u$NS Detection
- Creators
- E Alfonso-Pita - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoM BakerE Behnke - Indiana University South BendA BrandonM Bressler - Drexel UniversityB Broerman - Queen's UniversityR CoppejansJ Corbett - Queen's UniversityC Cripe - Indiana University South BendM Crisler - Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryC. E Dahl - Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryK Dering - Queen's UniversityA. de St CroixD Durnford - University of AlbertaK FoyP Giampa - TRIUMFJ GreslJ Hall - SnolabO Harris - Northeastern Illinois UniversityH Hawley-Herrera - Queen's UniversityC. M Jackson - Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryM KhatriY KoN Lamb - Drexel UniversityM Laurin - Université de MontréalI Levine - Indiana University South BendW. H Lippincott - University of California, Santa BarbaraX Liu - Northwestern UniversityR Neilson - Drexel University, PhysicsS Pal - University of AlbertaJ PhelanM. -C Piro - University of AlbertaS Priya - Pennsylvania State UniversityS RayE RichZ Sheng - Northwestern UniversityA SlossX StruykE Vázquez-Jáuregui - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoD VelascoS Westerdale - University of California, RiversideT. J Whitis - University of California, Santa BarbaraW Zha - Northwestern UniversityR Zhang - University of California, Santa Barbara
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Other Identifier
- 991022040872904721