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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)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

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

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

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

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

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

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

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

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

Goes without saying…

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

The bottom photomultiplier array (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)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

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

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

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

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

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)