Gallery

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

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

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

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

Do not touch that…

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (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 LUX water tank, later used for LZ (2013) (image: Carlos Faham)

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

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

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

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

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

Goes without saying…

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

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

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

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

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

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

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.