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LZ Outer Detector completed (2019) (M. Kapust, SURF)

Do not touch that…

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

The Xenon Detector starts its journey down the Yates shaft (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

Yates hoist room; the hoist operator can be seen left (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

The Xenon Detector being inserted into the inner cryostat vessel at the Surface Assembly Lab at SURF (2019)

Yates shaft headframe and SURF surface facility seen from the town of Lead, South Dakota (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)

Peaceful transfer of power between spokespersons Carter Hall and Harry Nelson (2017)

Outer cryostat vessel awaiting the detector inside the water tank in the Davis Lab (2019)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

The Xenon Detector fully assembled at the Surface Assembly Lab at SURF (2019) (M. Kapust, SURF)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

The Xenon Detector fully assembled at the Surface Assembly Lab at SURF (2019) (M. Kapust, SURF)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Sally Shaw ready for the unicorn pinata at the end of LUX (2016)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

LUX inside its shielding water tank (2013); LZ and its Outer Detector now occupy this space (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)

Access to Davis Lab to left and Yates shaft cage to right (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

The LUX water tank, later used for LZ (2013) (image: Carlos Faham)

The snowy Black Hills of South Dakota (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)

LUX assembled inside the water tank (2013) (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)

View from the lower deck of the Davis Lab showing the LUX water tank (2015) (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)

The sunny Black Hills of South Dakota, with the Ross shaft to the left and the Yates shaft to the right (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)

The Xenon Detector being extracted from the Yates shaft underground (2019)

LUX motley crew emerging from the Yates cage at the 4850-ft level, ready for another exciting underground shift (2016)

Cabling the photomultiplier tubes, one bit at a time (2019)

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

Cham Ghag at the BUGS radioassay facility at the Boulby Underground Laboratory (2016). Many materials and components used to build LZ were assayed here for trace radioactivity.

Looking down into the PTFE-lined inner cryostat vessel, part of the Xenon Skin (2019)

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Goes without saying…

Surface facilities at SURF; from left to right: surface administration building, Yates shaft headframe, and hoist room (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

The Xenon Detector on its way to the Davis campus (2019)

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)