Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches
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 2×10–42 cm2 at 1 GeV/c2 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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- Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City (Mexico)
- Indiana Univ., South Bend, IN (United States)
- Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
- Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON (Canada)
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada)
- Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON (Canada); TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC (Canada)
- SNOLAB, Lively, ON (Canada)
- Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Univ. of Montreal, QC (Canada)
- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
- Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2202831
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-23-584-V
Journal ID: ISSN 2218-1997; oai:inspirehep.net:2694887
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; SC0015910; SC0017815; SC0011702; DMR-1936432
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Universe
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2218-1997
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Dark matter; Neutrinos; Bubble chambers; Metastable fluids; Liquid argon
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Alfonso-Pita, Ernesto, Behnke, Edward, Bressler, Matthew, Broerman, Benjamin, Clark, Kenneth, Corbett, Jonathan, Dahl, C. Eric, Dering, Koby, de St. Croix, Austin, Durnford, Daniel, Giampa, Pietro, Hall, Jeter, Harris, Orin, Hawley-Herrera, Hector, Jackson, Christopher M., Ko, Youngtak, Lamb, Noah, Laurin, Mathieu, Levine, Ilan, Lippincott, W. Hugh, Liu, Xingxin, Neilson, Russell, Piro, Marie-Cécile, Priya, Shashank, Pyda, Daniel, Sheng, Zhiheng, Sweeney, Gary, Vázquez-Jáuregui, Eric, Westerdale, Shawn, Whitis, Thomas J., Wright, Alexander, Zha, Wei, and Zhang, Ryan. Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches. United States: N. p., 2023.
Web. doi:10.3390/universe9080346.
Alfonso-Pita, Ernesto, Behnke, Edward, Bressler, Matthew, Broerman, Benjamin, Clark, Kenneth, Corbett, Jonathan, Dahl, C. Eric, Dering, Koby, de St. Croix, Austin, Durnford, Daniel, Giampa, Pietro, Hall, Jeter, Harris, Orin, Hawley-Herrera, Hector, Jackson, Christopher M., Ko, Youngtak, Lamb, Noah, Laurin, Mathieu, Levine, Ilan, Lippincott, W. Hugh, Liu, Xingxin, Neilson, Russell, Piro, Marie-Cécile, Priya, Shashank, Pyda, Daniel, Sheng, Zhiheng, Sweeney, Gary, Vázquez-Jáuregui, Eric, Westerdale, Shawn, Whitis, Thomas J., Wright, Alexander, Zha, Wei, & Zhang, Ryan. Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe9080346
Alfonso-Pita, Ernesto, Behnke, Edward, Bressler, Matthew, Broerman, Benjamin, Clark, Kenneth, Corbett, Jonathan, Dahl, C. Eric, Dering, Koby, de St. Croix, Austin, Durnford, Daniel, Giampa, Pietro, Hall, Jeter, Harris, Orin, Hawley-Herrera, Hector, Jackson, Christopher M., Ko, Youngtak, Lamb, Noah, Laurin, Mathieu, Levine, Ilan, Lippincott, W. Hugh, Liu, Xingxin, Neilson, Russell, Piro, Marie-Cécile, Priya, Shashank, Pyda, Daniel, Sheng, Zhiheng, Sweeney, Gary, Vázquez-Jáuregui, Eric, Westerdale, Shawn, Whitis, Thomas J., Wright, Alexander, Zha, Wei, and Zhang, Ryan. Tue .
"Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe9080346. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2202831.
@article{osti_2202831,
title = {Scintillating Bubble Chambers for Rare Event Searches},
author = {Alfonso-Pita, Ernesto and Behnke, Edward and Bressler, Matthew and Broerman, Benjamin and Clark, Kenneth and Corbett, Jonathan and Dahl, C. Eric and Dering, Koby and de St. Croix, Austin and Durnford, Daniel and Giampa, Pietro and Hall, Jeter and Harris, Orin and Hawley-Herrera, Hector and Jackson, Christopher M. and Ko, Youngtak and Lamb, Noah and Laurin, Mathieu and Levine, Ilan and Lippincott, W. Hugh and Liu, Xingxin and Neilson, Russell and Piro, Marie-Cécile and Priya, Shashank and Pyda, Daniel and Sheng, Zhiheng and Sweeney, Gary and Vázquez-Jáuregui, Eric and Westerdale, Shawn and Whitis, Thomas J. and Wright, Alexander and Zha, Wei and Zhang, Ryan},
abstractNote = {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 2×10–42 cm2 at 1 GeV/c2 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.},
doi = {10.3390/universe9080346},
journal = {Universe},
number = 8,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Tue Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
}
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