Observation of a neutrino burst in coincidence with supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud

R. M. Bionta, Geoffrey Blewitt, C. B. Bratton, D. Casper, A. Ciocio, R. Claus, B. Cortez, M. F. Crouch, S. Dye, S. Errede,

Physical Review Letters · 1987 · 1.7K citations · 4 references

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A burst of eight neutrino events preceding the optical detection of the supernova in the Large Magellanic cloud has been observed in a large underground water Cherenkov detector. The events span an interval of six seconds and have visible energies in the range 20--40 MeV.

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