T. Denny Sanford

Joining us from Brown University, uh, Rick is the spokesperson of the LZ Collaboration, which stands for Lux -Zeppelin, which is located at the, uh, Sanford Facility in America.

Uh, Denny Sanford was a friend.

He lived here in La Jolla.

I met him many times.

So let, let me talk about SURF and our detector.

So I-- w-we're operating at an old, uh, what was previously a gold mine, uh, you know, up until just the, the turn of the millennium to, you know, two thou-- ju-just at the beginning of the two thousands.

And we repurposed, uh, a significant amount of the infrastructure f-for science here in the US, uh, you know, and through the support of Denny Sanford and the state of South Dakota and Mike Rounds, who was then the governor.

Um, we've been able to, uh, and, and all the subsequent support and of course, the Department of Energy, who've been absolutely critical to, to, um, you know, making this laboratory, uh, you know, function so well, uh, that, uh, uh, we're, we're operating this detector, the LUX-ZEPLIN detector, which for scale is about, you know, your height.