Gallery

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

Goes without saying…

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (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.

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

Do not touch that…

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

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

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

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

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

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

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

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

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

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (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)

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

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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