Gallery

Do not touch that…

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

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

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

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

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

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

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

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

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

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

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

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

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

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

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

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)

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

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

Cabling the photomultiplier tubes, one bit at a time (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.

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

Goes without saying…