Snowmass 2021 Scintillating Bubble Chambers: Liquid-noble Bubble Chambers for Dark Matter and CE$\nu$NS Detection
| Title: | Snowmass 2021 Scintillating Bubble Chambers: Liquid-noble Bubble Chambers for Dark Matter and CE$\nu$NS Detection |
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| Authors: | Alfonso-Pita, E., Baker, M., Behnke, E., Brandon, A., Bressler, M., Broerman, B., Clark, K., Coppejans, R., Corbett, J., Cripe, C., Crisler, M., Dahl, C. E., Dering, K., Croix, A. de St., Durnford, D., Foy, K., Giampa, P., Gresl, J., Hall, J., Harris, O., Hawley-Herrera, H., Jackson, C. M., Khatri, M., Ko, Y., Lamb, N., Laurin, M., Levine, I., Lippincott, W. H., Liu, X., Neilson, R., Pal, S., Phelan, J., Piro, M. -C., Priya, S., Ray, S., Rich, E., Sheng, Z., Sloss, A., Struyk, X., Vázquez-Jáuregui, E., Velasco, D., Westerdale, S., Whitis, T. J., Zha, W., Zhang, R. |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Collection: | Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Physics (Other) |
| Subject Terms: | Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Experiment |
| More Details: | 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$\nu$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 $10^{-43}$ cm$^2$ at 1 GeV$/c^2$ 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$/c^2$ particle mass (requiring a $\sim$ton-year exposure with non-neutrino backgrounds sub-dominant to the solar CE$\nu$NS signal) and for high-statistics CE$\nu$NS studies at nuclear reactors. Comment: 35 pages, 12 figures, contributed white paper to Snowmass 2021 (final version for Snowmass proceedings) |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Access URL: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12400 |
| Accession Number: | edsarx.2207.12400 |
| Database: | arXiv |
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