Gallery | LZ Dark Matter Experiment

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

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

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

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)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

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

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

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

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

Do not touch that…

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

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

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)

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

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.