Bubble Chamber Detectors with Light Nuclear Targets: A Snowmass 2021 White Paper
Abstract
Neutrino cross sections are a critical ingredient in experiments that depend on neutrino scattering to reconstruct event kinematics and infer neutrino characteristics, like NOvA and T2K. An opportunity exists to reduce the 5-10% broad uncertainty on neutrino cross sections by producing more measurements of neutrino scattering from light nuclear targets at the relevant energies. Bubble chambers with light nuclear targets would be ideal for these measurements but the most recent device designed for use with an accelerator neutrino source is at least fifty years old. A new bubble chamber with light nuclear targets could be designed by observing how the technology has progressed for use in dark matter experiments and producing smaller modular devices that use more efficient cooling systems. A smaller modular device could also be designed for deployment to all functioning neutrino beams, but an investigation of the proper operating characteristics is necessary to adapt newer detectors to the structure of contemporary neutrino beams.
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@article{arxiv.2203.11319,
title = {Bubble Chamber Detectors with Light Nuclear Targets: A Snowmass 2021 White Paper},
author = {Luis Alvarez-Ruso and Joshua L. Barrow and Leo Bellantoni and Minerba Betancourt and Alan Bross and Linda Cremonesi and Eric Dahl and Kirsty Duffy and Steven Dytman and Laura Fields and Tsutomu Fukuda and Mikhail Gorchtein and Richard J. Hill and Alex Himmel and Thomas Junk and Dustin Keller and Huey-Wen Lin and Xianguo Lu and Kendall Mahn and Aaron S. Meyer and Jorge G. Morfin and Jonathan Paley and Vishvas Pandey and Gil Paz and Roberto Petti and Ryan Plestid and Bryan Ramson and Brooke Russell and Frederico Sanchez Nieto and Oleksandr Tomalak and Callum Wilkinson and Clarence Wret},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11319},
year = {2022}
}