“Background check! Screening materials for rare-event searches” with Dr. Brianna Mount

“Background check! Screening materials for rare-event searches” livestream from the 4850 Level with Dr. Brianna Mount begins at 10 a.m. at the Sanford Lab Homestake Visitor Center.

When building super sensitive detectors, particle physicists require that materials be extremely radio-pure. As the director of the Black Hills State University Underground Campus (BHUC), Dr. Brianna Mount manages the assaying, or testing, of materials to be used for such experiments.

On Neutrino Day, Mount will join us via livestream from her laboratory space on the 4850 Level of SURF. You’ll get to peer inside ultra-sensitive detectors, answer fun poll questions and ask Mount about her research and work underground.

“I'm so excited to speak with folks of all ages and show them what it's like to work a mile underground!” said Mount, who is also an associate professor of physics at BHSU.

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Associate Professor of Physics at Black Hills State University (BHSU) and Director of the BHSU Underground Campus

When building super sensitive detectors, particle physicists require that materials be extremely radio-pure. As the director of the BHSU Underground Campus on the 4850 Level of SURF, Dr. Brianna Mount manages the assay, or testing, of materials to be used for such experiments.