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Physics reach of a low threshold scintillating argon bubble chamber in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering reactor experiments

L. J. Flores1,* and Eduardo Peinado1,† (CEνNS Theory Group at IF-UNAM)

E. Alfonso-Pita1,‡, K. Allen2, M. Baker3, E. Behnke2, M. Bressler4, K. Clark5, R. Coppejans6,7, C. Cripe2, M. Crisler8 et al. (SBC Collaboration)

M. Crisler8, C. E. Dahl6,8, A. de St. Croix5, D. Durnford3, P. Giampa9, O. Harris10, P. Hatch5, H. Hawley-Herrera5, C. M. Jackson11, Y. Ko3, C. B. Krauss3, N. Lamb4, M. Laurin12, I. Levine2, W. H. Lippincott13, R. Neilson4, S. Pal3, M.-C. Piro3, Z. Sheng6, E. Vázquez-Jáuregui1,14,§, T. J. Whitis13, S. Windle4, R. Zhang13, and A. Zuñiga-Reyes1 (SBC Collaboration)

  • 1Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 20-364, Ciudad de México 01000, México
  • 2Department of Physics, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana 46634, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2E1, Canada
  • 4Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
  • 5Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Kingston K7L 3N6, Canada
  • 6Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
  • 7Colegio de Física Fundamental e Interdiciplinaria de las Américas (COFI), San Juan, Puerto Rico 00901, USA
  • 8Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
  • 9SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada
  • 10Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois 60625, USA
  • 11Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, D.C. 99354, USA
  • 12Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal H3T 1J4, Canada
  • 13Department of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
  • 14Department of Physics, Laurentian University, Sudbury P3E 2C6, Canada

  • *luisjf89@fisica.unam.mx
  • †epeinado@fisica.unam.mx
  • ‡ernestoalfonso@estudiantes.fisica.unam.mx
  • §ericvj@fisica.unam.mx
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Phys. Rev. D 103, L091301 – Published 4 May, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.L091301

Abstract

The physics reach of a low threshold (100 eV) scintillating argon bubble chamber sensitive to coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) from reactor neutrinos is studied. The sensitivity to the weak mixing angle, neutrino magnetic moment, and a light Z′ gauge boson mediator are analyzed. A Monte Carlo simulation of the backgrounds is performed to assess their contribution to the signal. The analysis shows that world-leading sensitivities are achieved with a one-year exposure for a 10 kg chamber at 3 m from a 1  MWth research reactor or a 100 kg chamber at 30 m from a 2000  MWth power reactor. Such a detector has the potential to become the leading technology to study CEνNS using nuclear reactors.

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Phys. Rev. D 103, L091301– Published 4 May, 2021
  • Received 21 January 2021
  • Accepted 23 March 2021
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