Gallery

LUX exhibit at the Lead Visitor Center (2017)

Do not touch that…

The LZ photomultipliers (2019)

The Xenon Detector arrives at the Davis campus (2019)

Working on the LZ Outer Detector (2019)

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

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

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

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)

A fun excursion to the Badlands (2019)

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

Assembling the Xenon Detector fieldcage (2019)

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

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)

Inspecting the Outer Detector for dust (2019)

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

Walking the drift to the Davis Lab (2016)

Titanium cryostat arrives at SURF (2018)

The Xenon Skin photomultipliers (2019)

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

Mating the two halves of the Xenon Detector (2019)

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

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

Cabling a photomultiplier array (2019)

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

Nicolas Angelides, our cleanliness enforcer (2019)

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.

Manufacturing the electrode grids at SLAC (2019)

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

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

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

Goes without saying…

The bottom photomultiplier array (2019)

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

ZEPLIN-III exhibit at the Whitby Museum (2019)

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

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

LZUK meeting in Whitby (2016)

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

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

Inspecting the Xenon Detector for dust (2019)

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

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

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)

Closing lid on the Xenon Detector (2019)