Gallery

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Do not touch that…

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Goes without saying…

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

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

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

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (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.

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

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

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

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

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

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

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

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

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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