Gallery

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

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

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

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Goes without saying…

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

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

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

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

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

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (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)

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.

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

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)

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

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

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

Do not touch that…

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

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

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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