Gallery

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)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

Do not touch that…

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

Cabling a 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)

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

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

Goes without saying…

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

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

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

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

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

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 two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

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

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

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

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

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

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