Gallery

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

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

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

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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)

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

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

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

The bottom 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)

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 on its way to the Davis campus (2019)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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

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

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

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)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Goes without saying…

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

The Xenon Skin 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 LZ photomultipliers (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

Do not touch that…

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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.

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

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)

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