Gallery

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

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

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

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

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

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

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

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (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)

Do not touch that…

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

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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

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

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (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)

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

Goes without saying…

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)