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IMB

(Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven detector)
(1980s neutrino detector)

IMB (for Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven detector) was an neutrino detector located in a mine in Ohio operating 1981 through 1991, a Cherenkov detector consisting of a tank of pure water surrounded by photomultiplier tubes. Among the detectors accomplishments was detection of a neutrino burst coincident with the EMR of SN 1987A reaching Earth.

Though it functioned as a working neutrino observatory, its original aim was to detect proton decay within the water tank, and finding none over the course of a year implied a proton half-life on the order of 1031 years or more.


(neutrinos,observatory)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven_(detector)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jcv/imb/imb.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987IAUC.4340....1S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994ApJ...428..629M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983PhDT........48F/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983ASIC..107..363B/abstract
https://lss.fnal.gov/archive/test-proposal/0000/fermilab-proposal-0805.pdf

Referenced by pages:
neutrino observatory
SN 1987A (1987A)

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