Gallery

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

Do not touch that…

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

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

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

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)

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

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

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

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Goes without saying…

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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.

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

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

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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

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

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

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

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

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)