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 being used for calibration studies at Fermilab and planned future coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering research, 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 scintillation-based energy discrimination, electron-recoil insensitivity, and a projected 100 eV threshold. The cryogenic nature of the detector presents motivation for an investigation into the low temperature properties of both the argon active volume and CF4 hydraulic fluid at the 30 PSI operating pressures of the detector. This investigation is being conducted with a novel combination of bulk fluid and molecular dynamics simulation approaches. This presentation will update on the current status of both SBC-LAr10 and SBC-SNOLAB, as well as briefly discussing the potential for calculating cryogenic physical and thermal properties of the detector constituents.
| Your current academic level | MSc student |
|---|---|
| Your email address | 19emhw@queensu.ca |
| Affiliation | Queen's University |
| Supervisor name | Dr. Ken Clark |
| Supervisor email | kenneth.clark@queensu.ca |
