Gallery

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

Do not touch that…

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

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

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

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

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

Goes without saying…

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

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

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

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

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

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

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

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

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

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

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)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

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