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Nature 416, 118-119 (14 February 2002) | doi:10.1038/416118a

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Neutrino physics: Picking up the pieces

David Cyranoski1 & Geoff Brumfiel2

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Last November, a shock wave crippled Japan's Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector. David Cyranoski and Geoff Brumfiel find out how physicists plan to resurrect the device.

Noboru Furuta was standing outside a room above the giant Super-Kamiokande detector when he felt a gust of wind. The vinyl flaps covering the doorway behind him blew apart in the breeze.