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Snowmass 2021 Scintillating Bubble Chambers: Liquid-noble Bubble Chambers for Dark Matter and CE$\nu$NS Detection

Instrumentation and Detectors 2022-09-30 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment

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 (CEν\nuNS). 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 104310^{-43} cm2^2 at 1 GeV/c2/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/c2/c^2 particle mass (requiring a \simton-year exposure with non-neutrino backgrounds sub-dominant to the solar CEν\nuNS signal) and for high-statistics CEν\nuNS studies at nuclear reactors.

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@article{arxiv.2207.12400,
  title  = {Snowmass 2021 Scintillating Bubble Chambers: Liquid-noble Bubble Chambers for Dark Matter and CE$\nu$NS Detection},
  author = {E. Alfonso-Pita and M. Baker and E. Behnke and A. Brandon and M. Bressler and B. Broerman and K. Clark and R. Coppejans and J. Corbett and C. Cripe and M. Crisler and C. E. Dahl and K. Dering and A. de St. Croix and D. Durnford and K. Foy and P. Giampa and J. Gresl and J. Hall and O. Harris and H. Hawley-Herrera and C. M. Jackson and M. Khatri and Y. Ko and N. Lamb and M. Laurin and I. Levine and W. H. Lippincott and X. Liu and R. Neilson and S. Pal and J. Phelan and M. -C. Piro and S. Priya and S. Ray and E. Rich and Z. Sheng and A. Sloss and X. Struyk and E. Vázquez-Jáuregui and D. Velasco and S. Westerdale and T. J. Whitis and W. Zha and R. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12400},
  year   = {2022}
}

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35 pages, 12 figures, contributed white paper to Snowmass 2021 (final version for Snowmass proceedings)