Speaker
Description
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration is developing liquid-noble bubble chambers to detect sub-keV nuclear recoils, allowing the search for low-mass (GeV-scale) dark matter and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering from low-energy (MeV-scale) neutrinos. The scintillating bubble chamber detectors benefit from the energy reconstruction that the scintillation signal gives in addition to the superior electron-recoil insensitivity that bubble chambers naturally provide. The SBC-LAr10 was recently installed at Fermilab in the MINOS tunnel, which is located 100 meters underground. It will be operational soon. A summary of the SBC-LAr10's thermo-mechanical design will be given, which will include the pressure, thermal, and process control details. This talk will provide an overview of the components of the data acquisition system, including bubble imaging, scintillation detection, and acoustic detection. The primary objective of the SBC-LAr10 chamber is the calibration of nuclear and electron recoil responses. The presentation will cover the plan for carrying out these calibrations.
