The Xenon Detector starts its journey down the Yates shaft (2019)
The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)
Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)
Outer cryostat vessel awaiting the detector inside the water tank in the Davis Lab (2019)
The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)
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)
Sally Shaw ready for the unicorn pinata at the end of LUX (2016)
Yates shaft headframe and SURF surface facility seen from the town of Lead, South Dakota (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)
The LUX water tank, later used for LZ (2013) (image: Carlos Faham)
Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)
The Xenon Detector fully assembled at the Surface Assembly Lab at SURF (2019) (M. Kapust, SURF)
The Xenon Detector being extracted from the Yates shaft underground (2019)
Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)
Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)
The Xenon Detector on its way to the Davis campus (2019)
The Xenon Detector being inserted into the inner cryostat vessel at the Surface Assembly Lab at SURF (2019)
The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)
ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)
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.
Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)
The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)
View from the lower deck of the Davis Lab showing the LUX water tank (2015) (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)
Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)
Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)
A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)
Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)
Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)
The Xenon Detector fully assembled at the Surface Assembly Lab at SURF (2019) (M. Kapust, SURF)
The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)
LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)
LUX inside its shielding water tank (2013); LZ and its Outer Detector now occupy this space (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)
LZ Outer Detector completed (2019) (M. Kapust, SURF)
The snowy Black Hills of South Dakota (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)
Access to Davis Lab to left and Yates shaft cage to right (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)
Looking down into the PTFE-lined inner cryostat vessel, part of the Xenon Skin (2019)
LUX assembled inside the water tank (2013) (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)
The LZ photomultipliers (2019)
Surface facilities at SURF; from left to right: surface administration building, Yates shaft headframe, and hoist room (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)
Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)
ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)
Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)
LUX motley crew emerging from the Yates cage at the 4850-ft level, ready for another exciting underground shift (2016)
Yates hoist room; the hoist operator can be seen left (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)
LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)
Cabling the photomultiplier tubes, one bit at a time (2019)
Peaceful transfer of power between spokespersons Carter Hall and Harry Nelson (2017)