TAIGA—An Innovative Hybrid Array for High Energy Gamma Astronomy, Cosmic Ray Physics and Astroparticle Physics

• Published in: Physics of Atomic Nuclei
• Main Authors: Budnev, N., Astapov, I., Dyachok, A., Fedorov, O., Gafarov, A., Garmash, A., Gorbunov, N., Grebenyuk, V., Gress, O., Gress, T., Grinyuk, A., Grishin, O., Bezyazeekov, P., Haungs, A., Hiller, R., Horns, D., Ivanova, Al., Ivanova, A., Huege, T., Kalmykov, N., Kazarina, Y., Kindin, V., Kiryuhin, S., Bonvech, E., Kirilenko, P., Kleifges, M., Kokoulin, R., Kompaniets, K., Korosteleva, E., Kotovschikov, I., Kostunin, D., Kozhin, V., Kravchenko, E., Kryukov, A., Boreyko, V., Kuzmichev, L., Lenok, V., Lagutin, A., Lemeshev, Yu., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lubsandorzhiev, N., Lukyantsev, D., Mirgazov, R., Mirzoyan, R., Monkhoev, R., Borodin, A., Osipova, E., Pakhorukov, A., Popescu, M., Pan, A., Panasyuk, M., Pankov, L., Podgrudkov, D., Poleschuk, V., Popova, E., Porelli, Andrea, Brueckner, Martin, Postnikov, E., Prosin, V., Ptuskin, V., Petrukhin, A., Pushnin, A., Slunecka, V., Raikin, R., Rjabov, E., Rubtsov, G., Sagan, Y., Bulan, A., Sabirov, B., Samoliga, V., Schröder, F., Semeney, Yu., Sidorenkov, A., Silaev, A., Spiering, C., Tkachenko, A., Silaev, Jr., A., Skurikhin, A., Chernov, D., Slunecka, M., Sokolov, A., Sveshnikova, L., Zurbanov, V., Suvorkin, Y., Tabolenko, V., Tanaev, A., Tarashansky, B., Ternovoy, M., Tkachev, L., Chiavassa, A., Tluczykont, M., Togoo, R., Ushakov, N., Volchugov, P., Voronin, D., Wischnewski, R., Yashin, I., Zagorodnikov, A., Zhaglova, A., Zhurov, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AIP 2018
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530; energy: high; cosmic radiation; sensitivity; experimental results; showers: atmosphere; air; gamma ray; hybrid; galaxy; Baikal; taiga
• Online Access: https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/460468; https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PUBDB-2021-02962%22

The physics motivations and advantages of the hybrid detector complex TAIGA are presented. TAIGA aims to address gamma-ray astronomy at energies from a few TeV to several PeV units, as well as cosmic-ray physics from 100 TeV to several EeV units and astroparticle physics problems. In 2021 deployment and commissioning of the one square kilometer TAIGA setup in the Tunka valley $\sim$50 km West from Lake Baikal will be finished. The first experimental results with the TAIGA are presented.