Publications (17)
Results on photon-mediated dark matter-nucleus interactions from the PICO-60 CF bubble chamber
B. Ali, I. J. Arnquist, D. Baxter +52
Many compelling models predict dark matter coupling to the electromagnetic current through higher multipole interactions, while remaining electrically neutral. Different multipole…
Developing a Bubble Chamber Particle Discriminator Using Semi-Supervised Learning
B. Matusch, C. Amole, M. Ardid +70
The identification of non-signal events is a major hurdle to overcome for bubble chamber dark matter experiments such as PICO-60. The current practice of manually developing a disc…
Batch VUV4 Characterization for the SBC-LAr10 scintillating bubble chamber
H. Hawley-Herrera, E. Alfonso-Pita, E. Behnke +28
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) collaboration purchased 32 Hamamatsu VUV4 silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) for use in SBC-LAr10, a bubble chamber containing 10~kg of liquid…
Low-threshold response of a scintillating xenon bubble chamber to nuclear and electronic recoils
E. Alfonso-Pita, E. Behnke, M. Bressler +29
A device filled with pure xenon first demonstrated the ability to operate simultaneously as a bubble chamber and scintillation detector in 2017. Initial results from data taken at…
Velocity independent constraints on spin-dependent DM-nucleon interactions from IceCube and PICO
IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +419
Adopting the Standard Halo Model (SHM) of an isotropic Maxwellian velocity distribution for dark matter (DM) particles in the Galaxy, the most stringent current constraints on thei…
Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 CFI Bubble Chamber
C. Amole, M. Ardid, D. M. Asner +56
New data are reported from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 36.8 kg of CFI and located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. PICO…
Data-Driven Modeling of Electron Recoil Nucleation in PICO CF Bubble Chambers
C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +76
The primary advantage of moderately superheated bubble chamber detectors is their simultaneous sensitivity to nuclear recoils from WIMP dark matter and insensitivity to electron re…
Improved dark matter search results from PICO-2L Run 2
C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +55
New data are reported from a second run of the 2-liter PICO-2L CF bubble chamber with a total exposure of 129kg-days at a thermodynamic threshold energy of 3.3keV.…
Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter in the PICO-60 CF Bubble Chamber
E. Adams, B. Ali, R. Anderson-Dornan +58
Fermionic dark matter absorption on nuclear targets via neutral current interactions is explored using a non-relativistic effective field theory framework. An analysis of data from…
Search for inelastic dark matter-nucleus scattering with the PICO-60 CFI and CF bubble chambers
E. Adams, B. Ali, I. J. Arnquist +52
PICO bubble chambers have exceptional sensitivity to inelastic dark matter-nucleus interactions due to a combination of their extended nuclear recoil energy detection window from a…
Dark Matter Search Results from the Complete Exposure of the PICO-60 CF Bubble Chamber
C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +69
Final results are reported from operation of the PICO-60 CF dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of CF located in the SNOLAB underground laborat…
Calibration Plan for the SBC 10-kg Liquid Argon Detector with 100 eV Target Threshold
E. Alfonso-Pita, D. Baxter, E. Behnke +32
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) Collaboration is designing a new generation of low background, noble liquid bubble chamber experiments with sub-keV nuclear recoil threshold.…
Snowmass 2021 Scintillating Bubble Chambers: Liquid-noble Bubble Chambers for Dark Matter and CENS Detection
E. Alfonso-Pita, M. Baker, E. Behnke +42
The Scintillating Bubble Chamber (SBC) Collaboration is developing liquid-noble bubble chambers for the quasi-background-free detection of low-mass (GeV-scale) dark matter and cohe…
Physics reach of a low threshold scintillating argon bubble chamber in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering reactor experiments
L. J. Flores, Eduardo Peinado, E. Alfonso-Pita +31
The physics reach of a low threshold (100 eV) scintillating argon bubble chamber sensitive to Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CENS) from reactor neutrinos is stud…
Determining the bubble nucleation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in superheated CF dark matter detectors
B. Ali, I. J. Arnquist, D. Baxter +54
The bubble nucleation efficiency of low-energy nuclear recoils in superheated liquids plays a crucial role in interpreting results from direct searches for weakly interacting massi…
Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-2L CF Bubble Chamber
C. Amole, M. Ardid, D. M. Asner +54
New data are reported from the operation of a 2-liter CF bubble chamber in the 2100 meter deep SNOLAB underground laboratory, with a total exposure of 211.5 kg-days at four…
Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 CF Bubble Chamber
C. Amole, M. Ardid, I. J. Arnquist +59
New results are reported from the operation of the PICO-60 dark matter detector, a bubble chamber filled with 52 kg of CF located in the SNOLAB underground laboratory. As i…