Abstract

Baikal-GVD is a next generation, kilometer-scale neutrino telescope under construction in Lake Baikal. It is designed to detect astrophysical neutrino fluxes at energies from a few TeV up to 100 PeV. GVD is formed by multi-megaton subarrays (clusters). The array construction started in 2015 by deployment of a reduced-size demonstration cluster named "Dubna" . The first cluster in it’s baseline configuration was deployed in 2016, the second in 2017 and the third in 2018. The full-scale GVD will be an array of ~10.000 light sensors with an instrumented volume about of 2 cubic km. The first phase (GVD-1) is planned to be completed by 2020-2021. It will comprise 8 clusters with 2304 light sensors in total. We describe the design of Baikal-GVD and present selected results obtained in 2015 - 2017.

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Title
Baikal-GVD: status and prospects
Author
Avrorin, AD; Avrorin, A V; Aynutdinov, V M; Bannash, R; Belolaptikov, IA; Brudanin, V B; Budnev, N M; Doroshenko, A A; Domogatsky, G V; Dvornický, R; Dyachok, AN; Zh-AM Dzhilkibaev; Fajt, L; Fialkovsky, S V; Gafarov, A R; Golubkov, K V; Gres, TI; Honz, Z; Kebkal, K G; Kebkal, O G; Khramov, E V; Kolbin, M M; Konischev, K V; Korobchenko, A P; Koshechkin, A P; Kozhin, V A; Kulepov, V F; Kuleshov, DA; Milenin, M B; Mirgazov, R A; Osipova, E R; Panfilov, AI; LV Pan’kov; Petukhov, D P; Pliskovsky, EN; Rozanov, MI; Rjabov, E V; Rushay, V D; Safronov, G B; Simkovic, F; BA Shoibonov; Solovjev, A G; Sorokovikov, M N; Shelepov, MD; Suvorova, O V; Shtekl, I; Tabolenko, V A; BA Tarashansky; Yakovlev, SA; Zagorodnikov, A V; Zurbanov, V L
Section
Plenary
Publication year
2018
Publication date
2018
Publisher
EDP Sciences
ISSN
21016275
e-ISSN
2100014X
Source type
Conference Paper
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2127647145
Copyright
© 2018. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.