The TAIGA experiment : From cosmic ray to gamma-ray astronomy in the Tunka valley

• Main Authors: Budnev, N., Astapov, I., Bezyazeekov, P., Bogdanov, A., Boreyko, V., Büker, M., Brückner, M., Chiavassa, A., Chvalaev, O., Gress, O., Gress, T., Grishin, O., Dyachok, A., Epimakhov, S., Fedorov, O., Gafarov, A., Gorbunov, N., Grebenyuk, V., Grinuk, A., Haungs, A., Hiller, R., Horns, D., Huege, T., Ivanova, A., Kalinin, A., Karpov, N., Kalmykov, N., Kazarina, Y., Kirichkov, N., Kiryuhin, S., Kleifges, M., Kokoulin, R., Komponiest, K., Konstantinov, A., Korosteleva, E., Kostunin, D., Kozhin, V., Krömer, O., Kunnas, M., Kuzmichev, L., Lenok, V., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lubsandorzhiev, N., Mirgazov, R., Mirzoyan, R., Monkhoev, R., Nachtigall, R., Pakhorukov, A., Panasyuk, M., Pankov, L., Perevalov, A., Petrukhin, A., Platonov, V., Poleschuk, V., Popova, E., Porelli, A., Prosin, V., Ptuskin, V., Rubtsov, G., Pushnin, A., Samoliga, V., Satunin, P., Schröder, F., Semeney, Yu., Silaev, A., Skurikhin, A., Slucka, V., Spiering, C., Sveshnikova, L., Tabolenko, V., Tarashansky, B., Tkachenko, A., Tkachev, L., Tluczykont, M., Voronin, D., Wischnewski, R., Zagorodnikov, A., Zurbanov, V., Yashin, I.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Karlsruhe 2016
• Subjects: taiga
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5445/ir/1000060595; https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000060595

The physical motivations and advantages of the new gamma-observatory TAIGA (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy) is presented. The TAIGA array is a complex, hybrid detector for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy for energies from a few TeV to several PeV as well as for cosmic ray studies from 100 TeV to several EeV. The TAIGA will include the wide angle Cherenkov array TAIGA-HiSCORE with ~5 km$^{2}$ area, a net of 16 IACT telescopes (with FOV of about 10x10 degree), muon detectors with a total area of up to 2000-3000 m$^{2}$ and the radio array Tunka-Rex.