Gallery

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

Goes without saying…

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

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

Do not touch that…

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

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

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

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

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

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

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

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)

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (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.

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

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

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

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

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)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

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

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

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