Gallery

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

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (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)

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)

Do not touch that…

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

The snowy Black Hills of South Dakota (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)

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

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

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

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (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)

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.

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

Cabling the photomultiplier tubes, one bit at a time (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…

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Yates hoist room; the hoist operator can be seen left (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)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

Yates shaft headframe and SURF surface facility seen from the town of Lead, South Dakota (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)

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

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