Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5492891 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment | 2017 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The new TAIGA-HiSCORE non-imaging Cherenkov array aims to detect air showers induced by gamma rays above 30Â TeV and to study cosmic rays above 100Â TeV. TAIGA-HiSCORE is made of integrating air Cherenkov detector stations with a wide field of view (0.6Â sr), placed at a distance of about 100Â m. They cover an area of initially â¼0.25Â km2 (prototype array), and of â¼5Â km2 at the final phase of the experiment. Each station includes 4Â PMTs with 20 or 25Â 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.
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Authors
O. Gress, I. Astapov, N. Budnev, P. Bezyazeekov, A. Bogdanov, V. Boreyko, M. Brückner, A. Chiavassa, O. Chvalaev, A. Dyachok, T. Gress, S. Epimakhov, E. Fedoseev, A. Gafarov, N. Gorbunov, V. Grebenyuk, A. Grinuk, O. Grishin, I. Yashin,