Speaker
Description
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration is developing liquid noble bubble chambers as a technology for the detection of low energy (sub-keV) nuclear recoils. Identifying recoils at this energy would enable searches for light (~GeV) dark matter, as well as the observation of coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CEvNS) at low neutrino energy (such as from a reactor source). The SBC-LAr10 detector at Fermilab, currently building towards its first physics run, will measure how a liquid argon bubble chamber responds to low energy nuclear recoils. These measurements will determine the precise energy threshold, resolution, and background rejection characteristics of the technology, answering questions that will enable its application to neutrino and dark matter physics. In this talk, I will introduce our progress towards operating the detector at Fermilab. I will discuss the program of measurements to be made at Fermilab. In addition to the detector physics, SBC-LAr10 has the potential to perform its own dark matter search, as well as observe GeV-scale neutrino-nucleus interactions in the Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI) beam. Finally, I will highlight future prospects for making measurements of low energy neutrinos through CEvNS with the large detector volumes that scintillating bubble chambers have the potential to scale to.
