LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment completes inner detector

On July 26, researchers working in the Surface Assembly Lab at the Sanford Underground Research Facility had quite an audience. Nearly a dozen onlookers, including researchers, technicians and one very curious writer, peered through two windows into the cleanroom. From this vantage point, they watched researchers carefully peel back a protective layer of foil to reveal—for perhaps the last time in half a decade—the innermost piece of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment.