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The Baksan underground scintillation telescope<br />

Total number of standard detectors…………..3150<br />

Total target mass…………………….…...330 tons of oil-based scintillator<br />

~100 ν e p e + n events expected for 10 kpc SN.<br />

Running since 1980 with ~90% live time.<br />

E.N.Alexeyev, L.N.Alexeyeva, astro-ph/0212499<br />

Criteria of serious candidate: ≥ 9 events/20sec in inner 130ton detectors.<br />

(sensitive up to ~20kpc)<br />

No signal (except for SN1987A) over the 28 calender years

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