TAIGA—A hybrid array for high energy gamma-ray astronomy and cosmic-ray physics

• Published in: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
• Main Authors: N. Budnev, I. Astapov, Bezyazeekov, P., Bonvech, E., Borodin, A., Bulan, A., Chiavassa, A., Chernov, D., Dyachok, A., Gafarov, A., Garmash, A., Grebenyuk, V., Gress, O., Gress, E., Gress, T., Grinyuk, A., Grishin, O., Ivanova, A.D., Ivanova, A.L., Kalmykov, N., Kindin, V., Kiryuhin, S., Kokoulin, R., Komponiets, K., Korosteleva, E., Kozhin, V., Kravchenko, E., Kryukov, A., Kuzmichev, L., Lagutin, A., Lavrova, M., Lemeshev, Y., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lubsandorzhiev, N., Lukanov, A., Lukyantsev, D., Malakhov, S., Mirgazov, R., Monkhoev, R., Okuneva, E., Osipova, E., Pakhorukov, A., Pan, A., Panasenko, L., Pankov, L., Panov, A.D., Petrukhin, A., Poddubny, I., Podgrudkov, D., Poleschuk, V., Ponomareva, V., Popova, E., Postnikov, E., Prosin, V., Ptuskin, V., Pushnin, A., Raikin, R., Razumov, A., Rubtsov, G., Ryabov, E., Sagan, Y., Samoliga, V., Silaev, A., Junior, A. Silaev, Sidorenkov, A., Skurikhin, A., Sokolov, A., Sveshnikova, L., Tabolenko, V., Tanaev, A., Tarashchansky, B., Ternovoy, M.Y., Tkachev, L., Togoo, R., Ushakov, N., Vaidyanathan, A., Volchugov, P., Volkov, N., Voronin, D., Zagorodnikov, A., Zhaglova, A., Zhurov, D., Yashin, I.
• Other Authors: N. Budnev, I. Astapov, P. Bezyazeekov, E. Bonvech, A. Borodin, A. Bulan, A. Chiavassa, D. Chernov, A. Dyachok, A. Gafarov, A. Garmash, V. Grebenyuk, O. Gre, E. Gre, T. Gre, A. Grinyuk, O. Grishin, A.D. Ivanova, A.L. Ivanova, N. Kalmykov, V. Kindin, S. Kiryuhin, R. Kokoulin, K. Komponiet, E. Korosteleva, V. Kozhin, E. Kravchenko, A. Kryukov, L. Kuzmichev, A. Lagutin, M. Lavrova, Y. Lemeshev, B. Lubsandorzhiev, N. Lubsandorzhiev, A. Lukanov, D. Lukyantsev, S. Malakhov, R. Mirgazov, R. Monkhoev, E. Okuneva, E. Osipova, A. Pakhorukov, A. Pan, L. Panasenko, L. Pankov, A.D. Panov, A. Petrukhin, I. Poddubny, D. Podgrudkov, V. Poleschuk
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Cosmicray; Gammaastronomy; TimingTAIGA-HiSCOREarray; ImagingTAIGA-IACTarray; taiga
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2318/1889834; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167047

The concept of the TAIGA experiment is to combine wide-angle timing and imaging Cherenkov telescopes as well as electron and muon detectors. The TAIGA facility aims at gamma-ray astrophysics at energies from a few TeV to several PeV and cosmic-ray physics from 100 TeV to several EeV but also pursues searches for astrophysical nanosecond transients, axion-like particles, Lorentz invariance violation and other unexpected manifestations of New Physics. TAIGA-1, a hybrid detector complex with an area of 1 km2, operating since 2021 in the Tunka valley, 50 km to the West from the southernmost tip of lake Baikal, and the plans for its upgrade are presented.