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Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1490–1493 (1987)

Observation of a neutrino burst from the supernova SN1987A

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K. Hirata, T. Kajita, M. Koshiba, M. Nakahata, Y. Oyama, N. Sato, A. Suzuki, M. Takita, and Y. Totsuka
ICEPP, Department of Physics, Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113, Japan

T. Kifune and T. Suda
Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 118, Japan

K. Takahashi and T. Tanimori
KEK, National Laboratory for High Energy Physics, Ibaraki 305, Japan

K. Miyano and M. Yamada
Department of Physics, University of Niigata, Niigata 950-21, Japan

E. W. Beier, L. R. Feldscher, S. B. Kim, A. K. Mann, F. M. Newcomer, R. Van, and W. Zhang
Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

B. G. Cortez
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

Received 10 March 1987; published in the issue dated 6 April 1987

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A neutrino burst was observed in the Kamiokande II detector on 23 February, 7:35:35 UT (±1 min) during a time interval of 13 sec. The signal consisted of 11 electron events of energy 7.5 to 36 MeV, of which the first two point back to the Large Magellanic Cloud with angles 18°±18° and 15°±27°.

© 1987 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1490
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.1490
PACS:
97.60.Bw, 14.60.Gh, 95.85.Sz, 97.60.Jd
 
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