The Tunka detector complex: from cosmic-ray to gamma-ray astronomy

• Main Authors: Budnev, N, Astapov, I, Barbashina, N, Bogdanov, A, Bogorodskii, D, Boreyko, V, Büker, M, Brückner, M, Chiavassa, A, Chvalaev, O, Gress, O, Gress, T, Dyachok, A, Epimakhov, S, Gafatov, 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, Kindin, V, Kirichkov, N, Kiryuhin, S, Kleifges, M, Kokoulin, R, Komponiest, K, Konstantinov, A, Konstantinov, E, Korobchenko, 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, Petrukhin, A, Platonov, V, Poleschuk, V, Popova, E, Porelli, A, Prosin, V, Ptuskin, V, Rubtsov, G, Rühle, C, Samoliga, V, Satunin, P, Savinov, V, Saunkin, A, Schröder, F, Semeney, Yu, Shaibonov, B, Silaev, A, Skurikhin, A, Slucka, V, Spiering, C, Sveshnikova, L, Tabolenko, V, Tkachenko, A, Tkachev, L, Tluczykont, M, Voronin, D, Wischnewski, R, Zagorodnikov, A, Zurbanov, V, Yashin, I
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2015
• Subjects: 520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften; ddc:520; taiga
• Online Access: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/28268; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/28268-7; https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/632/1/012034; https://doi.org/10.18452/27617

TAIGA stands for "Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy" and is a project to build a complex, hybrid detector system for ground-based gamma- ray astronomy from a few TeV to several PeV, and for cosmic-ray studies from 100 TeV to 1 EeV. TAIGA will search for "PeVatrons" (ultra-high energy gamma-ray sources) and measure the composition and spectrum of cosmic rays in the knee region (100 TeV - 10 PeV) with good energy resolution and high statistics. TAIGA will include Tunka-HiSCORE (an array of wide-angle air Cherenkov stations), an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, an array of particle detectors, both on the surface and underground, and the TUNKA-133 air Cherenkov array. Peer Reviewed