Background worker and garbage collection?

Can I define a background worker in a method ?

private void DownLoadFile(string fileLocation){
  BackgroundWorker worker = new BackgroundWorker();

  worker.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler((obj, args) => { 
      // Will be executed by back ground thread asynchronously.
      args.Result = Download(fileLocation);   
  });

  worker.RunWorkerCompleted += new RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler((obj, args) => { 
      // will be executed in the main thread.
      Result r = args.Result as Result;
      ReportResult(r);
   });

   worker.RunWorkerAsync(fileLocation);
}

Question: If Download() function takes a long time to download the file, can GC kick in and collect worker object before the RunWorkerCompleted() is executed ?