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Physics Letters B

Volume 201, Issue 3, 11 February 1988, Pages 353-354
Physics Letters B

The speed of light and the speed of neutrinos

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Abstract

The approximate equality in the arrival times of the neutrino and light signals from SN 1987A allows an accurate check of the hypothesis of special relativity that the limiting velocity for all forms of radiation is the same.

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