Gallery

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Goes without saying…

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

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

The Xenon Detector on its way to the Davis campus (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.

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

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

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

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

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

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

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

Do not touch that…

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

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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