Black Hills State University Underground Campus

Brianna J Mount; Keenan J Thomas; Kelsey C Oliver-Mallory; Kevin T Lesko; Richard W Schnee; Reyco Henning; Ryan F MacLellan; Marcelo B B Guerra; Matthew Busch; Cabot-Ann D Christofferson; J F Wilkerson; Wenqin Xu; Dongming Mei

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.02.025

Black Hills State University Underground Campus

Appl Radiat Isot. 2017 Aug:126:130-133. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.02.025. Epub 2017 Feb 16.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ School of Natural Sciences, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 57799, USA. Electronic address: brianna.mount@bhsu.edu.
² Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA 94720, USA.
³ Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA 94720, USA; Department of Physics, University of California- Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
⁴ Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA 94720, USA.
⁵ Department of Physics, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701, USA.
⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
⁷ Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA.
⁸ School of Natural Sciences, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD 57799, USA.
⁹ Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Chemistry and Applied Biological Sciences, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701, USA.
¹¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
¹² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069, USA.

PMID: 28314507
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2017.02.025

Abstract

The Black Hills State University Underground Campus (BHUC) houses a low background counting facility on the 4850' level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility. There are currently four ultra-low background, high-purity germanium detectors installed in the BHUC and it is anticipated four more detectors will be installed within a year. In total, the BHUC will be able to accommodate up to twelve detectors with space inside a class 1000 cleanroom, an automated liquid nitrogen fill system, on-site personnel assistance and other required utilities.

Keywords: Dark matter; Gamma ray spectroscopy; Low background counting; Neutrino.

MeSH terms

Astronomical Phenomena
Background Radiation*
Elementary Particles
Environment, Controlled
Facility Design and Construction
Geological Phenomena
Laboratories
Mining
Radiometry / instrumentation
Radiometry / methods
South Dakota
Universities*