Welcoming A New Era of Precision Neutrino Physics with Bubble Chambers

Neutrino cross sections are a critical ingredient in all experiments that depend on neutrino scattering to infer neutrino properties, including current and future long-baseline oscillation experiments like NOvA, T2K, DUNE, and Hyper-K. Cross section extractions from world data currently have a broad uncertainty of at least 5%, however, an opportunity exists to reduce this uncertainty by producing more neutrino-nucleon scattering data with light nuclear targets. Bubble chambers are ideal for measuring neutrino scattering on such targets, as previous iterations could support tons of liquid hydrogen, but the most recent device designed for use with an accelerator neutrino source is at least fifty years old. A new bubble chamber design that focuses on light nuclear targets could use recent advancements in the technology pioneered by dark matter experiments to emphasize smaller more modular devices that could be deployed to all active neutrino beamlines. This talk will review the exceptionally broad physics program of a new device with light nuclear targets including the statistics of contributions to world cross-section data, an indirect measurement of the mass of the W-boson a la the NuTev Experiment, contributions to nucleon structure, and the complementarity of future neutrino scattering experiments to the physics program of the Electron-Ion Collider. It will briefly cover the strategy of a new bubble chamber development project using R&D funds at Fermilab.