Gallery

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

The bottom 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)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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.

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

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

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

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

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

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

Do not touch that…

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

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

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

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

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)

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

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

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Goes without saying…

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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