Journal Article

The TAIGA-HiSCORE array prototype: Status and first results

Mirzoyan, R., Nachtigall, R., Kompaniets, K. G., Skurikhin, A. V., Horns, D., Pakhorukov, A. L., Tarashchansky, B. A., Postnikov, E. B., Fedorov, O. L., Petrukhin, A. A., Tkachev, L. G., Gafarov, A. R., Lubsandorzhiev, B. K., Kazarina, Y. A., Mirgazov, R. R., Kunnas, M., Yurin, K., Barbashina, N. S., Osipova, E. A., Panasyuk, M. I., Tluczykont, M., Grinyuk, A. A., Lubsandorzhiev, N. B., Monkhoev, R. D., Gorbunov, N., Karpov, N. I., Prosin, V. V., Sveshnikova, L. G., Spiering, C., Budnev, N. M., Pankov, L. V., Sokolov, A., Chiavassa, A., Kindin, V. V., Lenok, V. V., Kalmykov, N. N., Samoliga, V. S., Dyachok, A. N., Popescu, M., Ivanova, A. L., Epimakhov, S. N., Kiryuhin, S. N., Rubtsov, G. I., Zagorodnikov, A. V., Pushnin, A. A., Tabolenko, V. A., Semeney, Y. A., Grebenyuk, V., Gress, O. A., Kokoulin, R. P., Ptuskin, V. S., Gress, T. I., Yashin, I. I., Kozhin, V. A., Grishin, O. G., Astapov, I. I., Kravchenko, E., Kuzmichev, L. A., Popova, E. G., Porelli, A., Zurbanov, V. L., Korosteleva, E. E., Bogdanov, A. G., Tkachenko, A. V., Silaev, A. A., Poleschuk, V. A., Boreyko, V., Wischnewski, R.

2017

Overview

The design for the TAIGA-HiSCORE array, a part of the TAIGA Gamma Ray Observatory, is considered. The observatory is being constructed in the Tunka Valley, 50 km from Lake Baikal. Preliminary results obtained using the first 28 optical stations of the array are presented.

• Publisher: Allerton Press
• Subject: Hadrons / Heavy Ions / Nuclear Physics / Physics / Physics and Astronomy / Proceedings of the 34th National Conference on Cosmic Rays