Topic: Updates on low-background counting at SURF: the BHSU Underground Campus (BHUC)
The Black Hills State University Underground Campus (BHUC) houses a low background counting facility on the 4850’ level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility, filling the niche of low background counting at SURF. There are currently four ultra-low background, high-purity germanium detectors installed in the BHUC and it is anticipated three more detectors will be installed within a year.
After a brief stint in the Davis Campus, the BHUC detectors have moved back to their original location at the Ross Campus and space in the BHUC is available for new experiments.
Speaker: Dr. Brianna Mount
Brianna Mount is the lab director of the BHSU Underground Campus (BHUC), which is a cleanroom facility on the 4850' level of SURF and she is the PI of the BHSU Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) lab. Through both of these projects, she has been able to build interdisciplinary collaborations with biologists and chemists and is a member of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) and Ge-STAR collaborations.
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