The wide-aperture gamma-ray telescope TAIGA-HiSCORE in the Tunka Valley: Design, composition and commissioning
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research / A 845, 367 - 372 (2017). doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.08.031 : The new TAIGA-HiSCORE non-imaging Cherenkov array aims to detect air showers induced by gamma rays above 30 TeV and to study cosmic rays above 100 TeV. TAIGA-HiSCORE is made of integrati...
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
2017
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.3204/pubdb-2018-00304 http://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/398987 |
Summary: | Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research / A 845, 367 - 372 (2017). doi:10.1016/j.nima.2016.08.031 : The new TAIGA-HiSCORE non-imaging Cherenkov array aims to detect air showers induced by gamma rays above 30 TeV and to study cosmic rays above 100 TeV. TAIGA-HiSCORE is made of integrating air Cherenkov detector stations with a wide field of view (0.6 sr), placed at a distance of about 100 m. They cover an area of initially ∼0.25 km$^2$ (prototype array), and of ∼5 km$^2$ at the final phase of the experiment. Each station includes 4 PMTs with 20 or 25 cm diameter, equipped with light guides shaped as Winstone cones. We describe the design, specifications of the read-out, DAQ and control and monitoring systems of the array. The present 28 detector stations of the TAIGA-HiSCORE engineering setup are in operation since September 2015. : Published by North-Holland Publ. Co., Amsterdam |
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