1. Observation of a Neutrino Burst in Coincidence with Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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M. Crouch, John G. Learned, B. G. Cortez, H. S. Park, Richard Miller, Sally Seidel, M. S. Mudan, J. L. Stone, C. B. Bratton, Henry W. Sobel, M. Goldhaber, J. C. van der Velde, S. Errede, Alessandra Ciocio, Lawrence Sulak, E. Shumard, W. Gajewski, Robert Svoboda, R. Claus, T. W. Jones, R. M. Bionta, D. Casper, L. R. Price, John M. LoSecco, D. Kielczewska, Todd Haines, G. W. Foster, K. S. Ganezer, Stephen T. Dye, W. R. Kropp, Geoff Thornton, Geoffrey Blewitt, D. Sinclair, Frederick Reines, John Matthews, C. Wuest, and J. Schultz
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Physics ,Supernova ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Cherenkov detector ,law ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Astrophysics ,Neutrino ,Large Magellanic Cloud ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Coincidence ,law.invention - Abstract
A burst of eight neutrino events a 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 6 s and have visible energies in the range 20-40 MeV.
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- 1991
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