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The Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Detector

Neutrino Detector Half Filled with Water
Located in Japan, Super-Kamiokande is a detector that studies the elusive particles known as neutrinos. This is a picture of the detector wall and top with about 9000 photomultiplier tubes which help detect the neutrinos

The Super-Kamiokande Detector
Schematic illustration of the Super-Kamiokande detector

Neutrino Detector Half Filled with Water
Inner detector half-filled with water


The KEK Detector

KEK test detector. This is relatively small detector built at the KEK laboratory in Japan. Its purpose is to verify how particles of a known type end energy look like in a Kamiokande-type detector. The light, short line pointing to the middle of the blue 'blob' represents track of the particle which generated light in the detector.

(All images courtesy the University of California, Irvine. For more information see http://www.ps.uci.edu/~superk/pic/