Gallery

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

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (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)

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

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

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

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (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.

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

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

Do not touch that…

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)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

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

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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

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

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

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

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

Goes without saying…

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)