Gallery

Goes without saying…

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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)

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

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

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

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

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

Do not touch that…

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

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)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

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

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.

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

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

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

Cabling a photomultiplier array (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 Skin photomultipliers (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

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

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

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

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

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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)

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)