Gallery

Goes without saying…

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

The snowy Black Hills of South Dakota (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 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)

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

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

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)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

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

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

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

Looking down into the PTFE-lined inner cryostat vessel, part of the Xenon Skin (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 inside its shielding water tank (2013); LZ and its Outer Detector now occupy this space (image: Sanford Underground Research Facility)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (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)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

Do not touch that…

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)