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Status and First Results of TAIGA

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The Tunka Advanced Instrument for Gamma-ray and cosmic ray Astrophysics (TAIGA) is a hybrid experiment for the measurement of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) with good spectral resolution in the TeV to PeV energy range. In this domain, the long-sought Pevatrons can be detected. Currently the TAIGA detector complex combines a two wide angle shower front Cherenkov light sampling timing arrays (HiSCORE and Tunka-133), two 4 m class, 10\({}^{\circ}\) aperture Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) and 240 m\({}^{2}\) surface and underground charged particle detector stations. Our goal is to introduce a new hybrid reconstruction technique, combining the good angular and shower core resolution of HiSCORE with the gamma-hadron separation power of imaging air Cherenkov telescopes. This approach allows to maximize the effective area and simultaneously to reach a good gamma-hadron separation at low energies (few teraelectronvolts). At higher energies, muon detectors are planned to enhance gamma-hadron separation. During the commissioning phase of the first and second IACT, several sources were observed. First detections of known sources with the first telescope show the functionality of the TAIGA IACTs. Here, the status of the TAIGA experiment will be presented, along with first results from the current configuration.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The work was performed at the UNU ‘‘Astrophysical Complex of MSU-ISU’’ (agreement 13.UNU.21.0007). The work is supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants 19-52-44002, 19-32-60003), the Russian Science Foundation (grant 19-72-20067 (Section D,E), the Russian Federation Ministry of Science and High Education (projects FZZE-2020-0017, FZZE-2020-0024), by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, TL 51/6-1) and by the Helmholtz Association (HRJRG-303) and by European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme (No.653477). D.H., M.T, A.K.A. and M.B. acknowledge support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2121 ‘‘Quantum Universe’’—390833306.

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  1. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    M. Tluczykont, A. K. Awad, M. Blank & D. Horns

  2. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia

    I. I. Astapov, V. V. Kindin, R. P. Kokoulin, K. G. Kompaniets, A. A. Petrukhin & I. I. Yashin

  3. Research Institute of Applied Physics, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia

    P. A. Bezyazeekov, N. M. Budnev, A. N. Dyachok, A. R. Gafarov, O. A. Gress, E. Gress, T. I. Gress, O. G. Grishin, A. L. Ivanova, S. N. Kiryuhin, Yu. E. Lemeshev, D. S. Lukyantsev, R. R. Mirgazov, R. Mirzoyan, R. D. Monkhoev, A. L. Pakhorukov, L. V. Pankov, V. A. Poleschuk, A. A. Pushnin, E. V. Ryabov, V. S. Samoliga, Yu. A. Semeney, Y. Suvorkin, V. A. Tabolenko, A. B. Tanaev, B. A. Tarashansky, M. Ternovoy, A. V. Zagorodnikov & D. P. Zhurov

  4. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    E. A. Bonvech, A. V. Bulan, D. V. Chernov, N. N. Kalmykov, E. E. Korosteleva, V. A. Kozhin, A. P. Kryukov, L. A. Kuzmichev, N. B. Lubsandorzhiev, E. A. Osipova, A. D. Panov, D. A. Podgrudkov, E. G. Popova, E. B. Postnikov, V. V. Prosin, A. Y. Razumov, A. A. Silaev, A. A. Silaev, Jr., A. V. Skurikhin, L. G. Sveshnikova & P. A. Volchugov

  5. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow oblast, Russia

    A. N. Borodin, V. M. Grebenyuk, A. A. Grinyuk, M. Lavrova, A. Pan, Y. I. Sagan, M. Slunecka & L. G. Tkachev

  6. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Zeuthen, Germany

    M. Brückner, A. Porelli & R. Wischnewski

  7. Physics Department of the University of Torino and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Torino, Italy

    A. Chiavassa

  8. Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

    A. Yu. Garmash, A. L. Ivanova, E. A. Kravchenko, L. A. Panasenko, A. V. Sokolov & A. Vaidyanathan

  9. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

    A. Yu. Garmash, E. A. Kravchenko & A. V. Sokolov

  10. Dubna University, Dubna, Moscow oblast, Russia

    V. M. Grebenyuk, Y. I. Sagan & L. G. Tkachev

  11. Altai State University, Barnaul, Altai krai, Russia

    A. A. Lagutin, R. I. Raikin & N. V. Volkov

  12. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    B. K. Lubsandorzhiev, A. D. Lukanov, G. I. Rubtsov, A. Yu. Sidorenkov, N. Ushakov & D. Voronin

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    R. Mirzoyan

  14. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Troitsk, Russia

    V. S. Ptuskin

  15. Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Irkutsk, Russia

    D. P. Zhurov

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Tluczykont, M., Astapov, I.I., Awad, A.K. et al. Status and First Results of TAIGA. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 84, 1045–1052 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778821130378

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