Berkeley Lab senior physicist and past LZ spokesperson Kevin Lesko is featured in this article about the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), situated deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota, where Berkeley Lab’s LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Dark Matter Experiment, an innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector, has passed a check-out phase of startup operations and delivered first results.

Berkeley Lab Researchers Record Successful Startup of LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford Underground Research Facility
July 7, 2022 / William Schulz / Berkeley Lab News Center