Gallery

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

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

Access to Davis Lab to left and Yates shaft cage to right (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)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

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

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

Closing lid on 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)

Goes without saying…

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

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

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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

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

Do not touch that…

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

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

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

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (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.

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)