Gallery

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

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

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

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

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

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

Goes without saying…

Do not touch that…

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

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

The LZ photomultipliers (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)

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

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

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

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

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)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

Yates shaft headframe and SURF surface facility seen from the town of Lead, South Dakota (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)

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

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)