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

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1987

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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

Abstract

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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