Ray Davis inspects the cavern where his solar neutrino experiment will be built.
Homestake employees work on the solar neutrino detector.
Ray Davis enjoys a swim at 4850 feet underground. He flooded the cavern to reduce backgrounds for the experiment.
In 2010, Sanford Lab enlarged the Davis Cavern to support the Large Underground Xenon experiment.
The Yates Shaft provides primary access to the Davis Campus on the 4080-foot level.
This cavern is being outfitted for the Compact Accelerator System Performing Astrophysical Research. CASPAR will use a low-powered accelerator to study what happens when stars die.
Davis Cavern undergoes outfitting for the LUX experiment.
Each day scientists working at the the Davis Campus pass this area, known as the Big X. The entrance to the Davis Campus is to the left; Yates Shaft is to the right.
A typical elevator or "cage" at Sanford Lab can accommodate around 15 to 30 people.
LUX researchers install the detector at the 4850 level.
The Majorana Demonstrator experiment requires a very strict level of cleanliness. Researcher work in full clean room garb and assemble their detectors inside nitrogen-filled glove boxes.
The LUX detector was built in a clean room on the surface and then brought underground.