The TAIGA timing array HiSCORE - first results

• Published in: EPJ Web of Conferences
• Main Authors: Tluczykont M., Budnev N., Astapov I., Barbashina N., Bogdanov A., Boreyko V., 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., Horns D., Kalinin A., Karpov N., Kalmykov N., Kazarina Y., Kiryuhin S., Kokoulin R., Kompaniets K., Konstantinov A., Korosteleva E., Kozhin V., Kravchenko E., Kunnas M., Kuzmichev L., Lemeshev Yu., Lubsandorzhiev B., Lubsandorzhiev N., Mirgazov R., Mirzoyan R., Monkhoev R., Nachtigall R., Osipova E., Pakhorukov A., Panasyuk M., Pankov L., Petrukhin A., Poleschuk V., Popova E., Porelli A., Postnikov E., Prosin V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2017
• Subjects: Physics; QC1-999; taiga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713603008; https://doaj.org/article/24c52a8a4be444caa1cd01034c4420be

Observations of gamma rays up to several 100 TeV are particularly important to spectrally resolve the cutoff regime of the long-sought Pevatrons, the cosmic-ray PeV accelerators. One component of the TAIGA hybrid detector is the TAIGA-HiSCORE timing array, which currently consists of 28 wide angle (0.6 sr) air Cherenkov timing stations distributed on an area of 0.25 km2. The HiSCORE concept is based on (non-imaging) air shower front sampling with Cherenkov light. First results are presented.