This $304,652 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports the development and calibration of scintillating bubble chambers for dark matter and neutrino detection at Drexel University. The project involves operation, data analysis, and calibration of these specialized noble-liquid bubble chambers to enable low-background detection of sub-kiloelectronvolt nuclear recoils, which are critical for advancing dark matter and neutrino physics research. Key activities include commissioning a 10-kg liquid argon bubble chamber at Fermilab and implementing novel in-situ calibration techniques to precisely characterize the detector's response. The resulting simulation models and calibration data will enable the SBC experimental program to conduct sensitive searches for GeV-scale dark matter particles and perform precision measurements of neutrino properties through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. The grant period runs from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027.
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