Speaker
Description
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration combines historic bubble chamber technologies with the scintillation properties of liquid nobles to create a detector uniquely suited to low threshold rare event searches. The collaboration has built two nearly identical assemblies, SBC-LAr10 is meant for calibration studies and future coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering research at Fermilab, and SBC-SNOLAB is bound for a low background dark matter search. SBC uses a superheated xenon-doped liquid argon active volume, allowing for event by event energy reconstruction, electron-recoil insensitivity, and a projected 100 eV threshold. The cryogenic nature of the detector presents an interesting opportunity to look further into the low temperature properties of both the active volume and CF$_4$ hydraulic fluid at the 30 PSI operating pressures of the detector. This talk will outline the current status of both SBC-LAr10 and SBC-SNOLAB, as well as briefly discussing the potential for estimating cryogenic properties of the detector constituents.
| Keyword-1 | dark matter |
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| Keyword-2 | simulation |
| Keyword-3 | cryogenic |
