Speaker
Alice Hamer
Description
The Boulby UnderGround Screening (BUGS) facility is a world-class materials screening lab based at the Boulby Underground Laboratory in North Yorkshire. The facility has been, and continues to be, used for screening a wide variety of parts and materials prior to their use in low background experiments in the UK and worldwide. The BUGS facility is continuously improving and currently houses a range of detectors capable of assessing samples of various shapes and sizes through gamma spectroscopy, surface alpha counting, radon emanation measurements, and mass spectrometry. In this talk I will give an overview of the BUGS facility, and discuss recent and ongoing upgrades to the systems.