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

E. Alfonso-Pita,M. Baker,E. Behnke, A. Brandon,M. Bressler,B. Broerman,K. Clark, R. Coppejans, J. Corbett,C. Cripe,M. Crisler,C. E. Dahl,K. Dering,A. de St. Croix,D. Durnford, K. Foy,P. Giampa, J. Gresl, J. Hall,O. Harris, H. Hawley-Herrera,C. M. Jackson, M. Khatri, Y. Ko,N. Lamb,M. Laurin,I. Levine,W. H. Lippincott, X. Liu,R. Neilson,S. Pal, J. Phelan,M. -C. Piro,S. Priya, S. Ray, E. Rich,Z. Sheng, A. Sloss, X. Struyk,E. Vázquez-Jáuregui, D. Velasco,S. Westerdale,T. J. Whitis,W. Zha, R. Zhang

arxiv(2022)

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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$\nu$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.
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bubble chambers,dark matter,liquid-noble
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