Gallery

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

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

Goes without saying…

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

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

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

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

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)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

Do not touch that…

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

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

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

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

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

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

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

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