TAIGA experiment: present status and perspectives

• Published in: Journal of Instrumentation
• Main Authors: Budnev, N., Astapov, I., Gress, T., Grinyuk, A., Grishin, O., Dyachok, A., Fedorov, O., Haungs, A., Horns, D., Huege, T., Ivanova, A., Kalmykov, N., Bezyazeekov, P., Kazarina, Y., Kindin, V., Kiryuhin, S., Kokoulin, R., Kompaniets, K., Kostunin, D., Korosteleva, E., Kozhin, V., Kravchenko, E., Kunnas, M., Boreyko, V., Kuzmichev, L., Lemeshev, Yu., Lenok, V., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lubsandorzhiev, N., Mirgazov, R., Mirzoyan, R., Monkhoev, R., Nachtigall, R., Osipova, E., Borodin, A., Pakhorukov, A., Panasyuk, M., Pankov, L., Poleschuk, V., Popesku, M., Popova, E., Porelli, A., Postnikov, E., Prosin, V., Ptuskin, V., Brückner, M., Petrukhin, A., Pushnin, A., Rjabov, E., Rubtsov, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Inst. of Physics 2017
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/610; activity report; muon: spectrometer; showers: atmosphere; Cherenkov counter; gamma ray: detector; cosmic radiation; observatory; imaging; Baikal; costs; taiga
• Online Access: https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/399168; https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PUBDB-2018-00473%22

The TAIGA observatory addresses ground-based gamma-ray astronomy at energies from a few TeV to several PeV, as well as cosmic ray physics from 100 TeV to several EeV . TAIGA will be located in the Tunka valley, ~ 50 km West from Lake Baikal. The different detectors of the TAIGA will be grouped in 6 arrays to measure Cherenkov and radio emission as well as electron and muon components of atmospheric showers. The combination of the wide angle Cherenkov detectors of the TAIGA-HiSCORE array and the 4-m Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes of the TAIGA-IACT array with their FoV of 10×10 degrees and underground muon detectors offers a very cost effective way to construct a 5 km$^2$ array for gamma-ray astronomy.