Abstract

TAIGA stands for “Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy” and is a project to build a complex, hybrid detector system for ground-based gamma- ray astronomy from a few TeV to several PeV, and for cosmic-ray studies from 100 TeV to 1 EeV. TAIGA will search for ”PeVatrons” (ultra-high energy gamma-ray sources) and measure the composition and spectrum of cosmic rays in the knee region (100 TeV - 10 PeV) with good energy resolution and high statistics. TAIGA will include Tunka-HiSCORE (an array of wide-angle air Cherenkov stations), an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, an array of particle detectors, both on the surface and underground, and the TUNKA-133 air Cherenkov array.

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Title
The Tunka detector complex: from cosmic-ray to gamma-ray astronomy
Author
Budnev, N 1 ; Astapov, I 2 ; Barbashina, N 2 ; Bogdanov, A 2 ; Bogorodskii, D 1 ; Boreyko, V 3 ; Büker, M 4 ; Brückner, M 5 ; Chiavassa, A 6 ; Chvalaev, O 1 ; Gress, O 1 ; Gress, T 1 ; Dyachok, A 1 ; Epimakhov, S 4 ; Gafatov, A 1 ; Gorbunov, N 3 ; Grebenyuk, V 3 ; Grinuk, A 3 ; Haungs, A 7 ; Hiller, R 7 ; Horns, D 4 ; Huege, T 7 ; Ivanova, A 1 ; Kalinin, A 3 ; Karpov, N 8 ; Kalmykov, N 8 ; Kazarina, Y 1 ; Kindin, V 2 ; Kirichkov, N 1 ; Kiryuhin, S 1 ; Kleifges, M 9 ; Kokoulin, R 2 ; Komponiest, K 2 ; Konstantinov, A 8 ; Konstantinov, E 1 ; Korobchenko, A 1 ; Korosteleva, E 8 ; Kostunin, D 7 ; Kozhin, V 8 ; Krömer, O 9 ; Kunnas, M 4 ; Kuzmichev, L 8 ; Lenok, V 1 ; Lubsandorzhiev, B 10 ; Lubsandorzhiev, N 8 ; Mirgazov, R 1 ; Mirzoyan, R 11 ; Monkhoev, R 1 ; Nachtigall, R 4 ; Pakhorukov, A 1 ; Panasyuk, M 8 ; Pankov, L 1 ; Petrukhin, A 2 ; Platonov, V 1 ; Poleschuk, V 1 ; Popova, E 8 ; Porelli, A 12 ; Prosin, V 8 ; Ptuskin, V 13 ; Rubtsov, G 10 ; Rühle, C 9 ; Samoliga, V 1 ; Satunin, P 13 ; Savinov, V 1 ; Saunkin, A 1 ; Schröder, F 7 ; Yu Semeney 1 ; Shaibonov, B 10 ; Silaev, A 8 ; Skurikhin, A 8 ; Slucka, V 3 ; Spiering, C 12 ; Sveshnikova, L 8 ; Tabolenko, V 1 ; Tkachenko, A 3 ; Tkachev, L 3 ; Tluczykont, M 4 ; Voronin, D 1 ; Wischnewski, R 12 ; Zagorodnikov, A 1 ; Zurbanov, V 1 ; Yashin, I 2 

1  Institute of Applied Physics, ISU, Irkutsk, Russia 
2  National Research Nuclear University (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, Russia 
3  JINR, Dubna, Russia 
4  Institut für Experimentalphysik, University of Hamburg, Germany 
5  Institute for Computer Science, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany 
6  Dipartimento di Fisica Generale Universiteta di Torino and INFN, Torino, Italy 
7  Institut für Kernphysik, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany 
8  Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics MSU, Moscow, Russia 
9  Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany 
10  Institute for Nuclear Research of RAN, Moscow, Russia 
11  Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany; Institute of Applied Physics, ISU, Irkutsk, Russia 
12  DESY, Zeuthen, Germany 
13  IZMIRAN, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia 
Publication year
2015
Publication date
Aug 2015
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/632/1/012034
ProQuest document ID
2576383736
Copyright
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