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

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.

doi: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.