Gallery

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

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

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

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (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)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

Do not touch that…

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

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

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

Goes without saying…

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (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)

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

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.

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

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

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

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

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

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)