Gallery

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

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

Goes without saying…

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)

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

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

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

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

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

LZ Outer Detector completed (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)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

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

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

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

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.

Do not touch that…

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

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

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

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)