Status of the Scintillation Experiment of the TAIGA Astrophysical Complex

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2025年4月1日

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E. A. Kravchenko,
I. I. Astapov,
P. A. Bezyazeekov,
E. A. Bonvech,
A. Blinov,
A. N. Borodin,
N. M. Budnev,
A. V. Bulan,
P. V. Busygin,
D. V. Chernov,
A. Chiavassa,
A. N. Dyachok,
V. A. Erofeeva,
A. R. Gafarov,
A. Yu. Garmash,
V. M. Grebenyuk,
E. O. Gress,
O. A. Gress,
T. I. Gress,
A. A. Grinyuk,
O. G. Grishin,
A. D. Ivanova,
A. L. Ivanova,
M. A. Iliushin,
I. A. Kabannik,
N. N. Kalmykov,
V. V. Kindin,
S. N. Kiryukhin,
N. I. Kolosov,
K. G. Kompaniets,
E. E. Korosteleva,
V. A. Kozhin,
A. P. Kryukov,
L. A. Kuzmichev,
A. A. Lagutin,
M. V. Lavrova,
Yu. E. Lemeshev,
B. K. Lubsandorzhiev,
N. Lubsandorzhiev,
A. Lukanov,
S. D. Malakhov,
R. R. Mirgazov,
R. D. Monkhoev,
E. A. Okuneva,
E. A. Osipova,
A. L. Pakhorukov,
L. V. Pankov,
A. Pan,
A. D. Panov,
A. A. Petrukhin,
D. A. Podgrudkov,
I. Poddubny,
V. A. Poleschuk,
E. G. Popova,
E. B. Postnikov,
V. V. Prosin,
A. A. Pushnin,
R. I. Raikin,
A. V. Razumov,
G. I. Rubtsov,
E. V. Ryabov,
V. S. Samoliga,
I. Satyshev,
A. A. Silaev,
A. A. Silaev,
A. Yu. Sidorenkov,
A. V. Skurikhin,
A. V. Sokolov,
L. G. Sveshnikova,
A. Shaikovsky,
M. V. Shulga,
V. A. Tabolenko,
L. G. Tkachev,
A. B. Tanaev,
M. Yu. Ternovoy,
N. A. Ushakov,
P. A. Volchugov,
N. V. Volkov,
D. M. Voronin,
V. Zirakashvili,
A. V. Zagorodnikov,
D. P. Zhurov,
I. I. Yashin

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Abstract

The scintillation experiment of the TAIGA astrophysical complex comprises two systems: Tunka-Grande and Taiga-Muon. The main objective of these systems is to study the energy spectrum and mass composition of cosmic rays in the energy range of \(10^{15}{-}10^{18}\) eV, as well as to search for gamma radiation in the same energy range. An additional task of the experiments is to search for a signal from gamma quanta in the sub-PeV energy range in conjunction with wide angle Cherenkov detectors TAIGA-HiSCORE and Tunka-133. The report presents the objectives and status of the facility and a description of the design of scintillation counters and clusters. The results of the study of EAS with an unusual spatiotemporal structure are presented together with the results of a study of the joint operation of the Tunka-Grande and TAIGA-HiSCORE setups in order to search for sub-PeV gamma quanta. Estimates are made of the expected number of registered gamma quanta from the Crab Nebula.