Colin Macilwain replies
The opening paragraph of my story erred in stating that SLAC was “poised to win” its race with KEK to obtain significant measurements of charge-parity violation, but I stand by the rest of it, which accurately reflects the views of several scientists I interviewed at SLAC. The SLAC researchers believe themselves to be ahead at this early stage.
The director of KEK declined to be interviewed on this matter when I met him at SLAC on 21 January, but my colleague Robert Triendl obtained a response from Japan that confirmed my story's perspective, and was included in it.
Both of the quotes that I attributed to Dr Quinn in my story were accurate: her charges of distortion are not supported by the facts.
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Macilwain, C. reply: No conflict between SLAC and Japan's KEK. Nature 404, 701 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35008258
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