Low background Screening and Prototyping Facility at the Soudan Underground Lab

SOLO HPGe

Jim Reeves: Cu Electroforming SBIR + Cu screening detector (microBq/kg)

UF detector (100%) 40’ x 35’ x 100’ cavern surrounded by a 99% efficient active muon veto

Low background Screening and Prototyping Facility at the Soudan Underground Lab

CDMS offices CDMS Aux Clean Room BFand SiLi detector

Veto shield repaired last summer DAQ: location & time stamp for each muon

Full Proposal includes the following features

• Four HP Ge detectors for gamma screening. Two in existing lead-shielded SOLO facility (Brown, PNNL) Third from U. Florida startup, 4 th Clover Well Detector (NSF MRI) • Two alpha/beta screeners (via alternate funding) neon gas MWPC (Caltech, CWRU, FNAL) triggered expansion cloud chamber (UCSB, UMinn) • Underground electroforming facility to make high purity copper (Reeves & Sons via awarded SBIR) • Ge Detector fabrication (pending SBIR with Princeton Gamma Tech) • Clean Machine shop • Water tank with multiple top-loading ports in clean room on top • Multipurpose clean room with shielded bays for prototypes • Radon-scrubbing for all clean rooms

Drawings and Design Consultation: Short Elliott Henderson Engineering, Inc Upper mezzanine above tank top Electro form

Clean room over tank Water ports with crane

40 ft Ante room Multi purpose clean room Ante-room current mezzanine 100 ft radon scrubbing plenum.

Muon veto shield

Clean anteroom

Clean room over tank

mezzanine anteroom Clean room Shielded bays Water tank

Muon veto shield

But we are open for business right now.

see http://www.hep.umn.edu/lbcf Procedure: Fill out an Experimental Planning Form Fee structure is established with ESO

Signers of EPS so far…

Medtronics “suitcase” experiment (soft memory errors) COUPP dark matter prototype (J. Collar) Copper electroforming (Reeves: SBIR Phase I & II)

E xperimental P lanning S tatement for the Low Background Counting Facility

A statement with the information detailed below, together with the signature sheet, must be submitted to the Soudan Underground Lab Manager before any experiment can be approved for installation in the Low Background Counting Facility. This will ensure that any new experiment does not interfere with either the of the two existing large experiments or with public tours, as well as reviewing safety and code-related issues.

1. Project Title and Description, incl. list of collaborators, institutions, and funding sources. 2. Experiment Area and Infrastructure Needs

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This section should include physical area needed, both underground and on the surface, connections needed between surface and underground installations, electrical power needs, LAN bandwidth, and any special air handling requirements. There should also be list of number phone or fax lines needed. Depending on the area needed or type of the experiment, are there additional fire or life safety infrastructures needed?

3. Project Schedule

Schedule should contain any construction period needed for infrastructure, detector assembly, operation period and removal of experiment. An estimate of access (and access schedule, including on-call emergency access) should be included such that hoist costs directly related to the experiment can be properly calculated. A description of the load size and weight of the cage is available.

4. Hazard Analyzes

A complete list materials to be brought underground and waste products to be removed. Any possible physical hazards should be listed. All materials should have MSDS sheets appended to this document. Any material handling issues should also be noted. Assessment of this issues, especially the ones that fall under the safety category, need to be addressed by both the U of M and DNR who are responsible for site safety.

5. Minecrew Labor

An estimate of minecrew labor needed should include any construction or operation manpower requirements. As a general rule, all non carry-on equipment must be moved underground by the minecrew. A trained and designated cage rider must be present underground at all time if access for non-standard shifts is needed.

6. Surface Space Required

List any space usage needed in Surface Building for staging or remote operation, including control rooms and computers (there is a fiber optic connection to the underground lab). Also list any space required that cannot be accommodated inside the surface building for parking, staging or general material storage.

Project Title:____________________________________________________

Prof. Earl Peterson ______________________________________

University of Minnesota Soudan Underground Lab Director [email protected]

Mr. William Miller ______________________________________

University of Minnesota Soudan Underground Lab Manager [email protected]

Mr. Paul Wannarka ______________________________________

Department of Natural Resources Soudan Underground Mine State Park Manager [email protected]

Dr. Regina Rameika ______________________________________

Fermi National Laboratory MINOS Operations Manager [email protected]

Dr. Dan Bauer ___________________________________________

Fermi National Laboratory CDMS II Project Manager [email protected]

Prof. Priscilla Cushman ____________________________________

University of Minnesota Manager of the Low Background Counting Facility [email protected]