Gallery

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

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

Goes without saying…

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

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

View from the lower deck of the Davis Lab showing the LUX water tank (2015) (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.

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

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

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

The two photomultiplier arrays completed (2019)

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

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

Do not touch that…

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)

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

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

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

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

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

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)

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

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

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 Skin photomultipliers (2019)

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

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)