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

R. M. Bionta, G. Blewitt, C. B. Bratton, D. Casper, A. Ciocio, R. Claus, B. Cortez, M. Crouch, S. T. Dye et al.

S. Errede, G. W. Foster, W. Gajewski, K. S. Ganezer, M. Goldhaber, T. J. Haines, T. W. Jones, D. Kielczewska, W. R. Kropp, J. G. Learned, J. M. LoSecco, J. Matthews, R. Miller, M. S. Mudan, H. S. Park, L. R. Price, F. Reines, J. Schultz, S. Seidel, E. Shumard, D. Sinclair, H. W. Sobel, J. L. Stone, L. R. Sulak, R. Svoboda, G. Thornton, J. C. van der Velde, and C. Wuest

  • The University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92717;
  • The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109;
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973
  • California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California 91109;
  • Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio 44115;
  • The University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822;
  • University College, London, United Kingdom;
  • Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland;
  • Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106;
  • The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801;
  • The University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720;
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550;
  • The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556;
  • Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215;
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510; and AT&T Bell Laboratories, Summit, New Jersey 07910

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1494 – Published 6 April, 1987

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1494

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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  2. W. Kunkel and B. Madore, IAU Circular No. 4316 (24 February 1987).
  3. Further details concerning this detector can be found in R. M. Bionta et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 27 (1983); B. G. Cortez et al., 52, 1092 (1984); T. J. Haines et al., 57, 1986 (1986).
  4. M. Aglietta et al., ``Characteristics of a Neutrino Burst Detected During the Occurrence of Supernova 1987A'' (to be published); IAU Circulars No. 4323 and No. 4332.
  5. K. Hirata et al., preceding Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1490 (1987)].

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1494– Published 6 April, 1987
  • Received 13 March 1987

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