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

6 April 1987

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 58 (14) , 1494-1496
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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