The wide-aperture gamma-ray telescope TAIGA-HiSCORE in the Tunka Valley: Design, composition and commissioning

• Published in: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
• Main Authors: Gress O., Astapov I., Budnev N., Bezyazeekov P., Bogdanov A., Boreyko V., Bruckner M., Chiavassa A., Chvalaev O., Dyachok A., Gress T., Epimakhov S., Fedoseev E., Gafarov A., Gorbunov N., Grebenyuk V., Grinuk A., Grishin O., Horns D., Ivanova A., Kalinin A., Karpov N., Kalmykov N., Kazarina Y., Kirichkov N., Kiryuhin S., Kokoulin R., Komponiest K., Korosteleva E., Kozhin V., 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., Rubtsov G., Pushnin A., Samoliga V., Saunkin A., Semeney Y., Shaibonov(ju) B., Silaev A., Silaev(ju) A., Skurikhin A., Slucka V., Spiering C., Sveshnikova L., Tabolenko V., Tarashchansky B., Tkachenko A., Tkachev L., Tluczykont M., Voronin D., Wischnewski R., Zagorodnikov A., Zurbanov V., Yashin I.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Cherenkov light; Cosmic ray; Data acquisition system; Gamma-ray sources; taiga
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2318/1889839; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.08.031

The new TAIGA-HiSCORE non-imaging Cherenkov array aims to detect air showers induced by gamma rays above 30 TeV and to study cosmic rays above 100 TeV. TAIGA-HiSCORE is made of integrating air Cherenkov detector stations with a wide field of view (0.6 sr), placed at a distance of about 100 m. They cover an area of initially ∼0.25 km2 (prototype array), and of ∼5 km2 at the final phase of the experiment. Each station includes 4 PMTs with 20 or 25 cm diameter, equipped with light guides shaped as Winstone cones. We describe the design, specifications of the read-out, DAQ and control and monitoring systems of the array. The present 28 detector stations of the TAIGA-HiSCORE engineering setup are in operation since September 2015.