Published 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Status, results and plans after 3 years of Tunka-Rex operation

  • 1. Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (Germany)

Description

The Tunka Radio Extension (Tunka-Rex) is a radio detector for air showers from cosmic rays around 1017 eV close to Lake Baikal in Russia. It currently consists of 44 antenna stations, distributed over 3 km2, and will be extended by another 19 antenna stations this year. As most radio experiments, it is hosted by another air-showers detector, providing trigger and an independed reconstruction. This has been Tunka-133, an air-Cherenkov detector at the site, limited to operation during moonless nights. From winter 2015 on, Tunka-Rex also jointly operates with Tunka-Grande, a newly installed scintillator detector at the site, capable of 24 h operation. The goal of the first stage of Tunka-Rex was to develop methods for competitive air shower measurements and detemine the achievable precision for the most important air shower parameters, the energy and depth of the shower maximum. In the next stage, with the now available full duty cycle and powerful combination of radio and scintillator detector, the goal will be to contribute to measurements of the energy spectrum and mass composition of cosmic rays from 1017 eV to 1018 eV. Latest results and plans for Tunka-Rex are reported. This includes an energy reconstruction with a single antenna station and the comparison of the absolute energy scale via radio measurements.

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
Journal Issue
Hamburg 2016 issue
Series
Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 51(2)
Journal Page Range
[1 p.]
ISSN
0420-0195
CODEN
VDPEAZ

Conference

Title
DPG-Fruehjahrstagung 2016 (Spring meeting) of the section matter and cosmos (SMuK) together with the divisions gravity and relativity, radiation and medical physics, particle physics, theoretical and mathematical physics, and the working group philosophy of physics
Original Conference Title
DPG-Fruehjahrstagung 2016 der Sektion Materie und Kosmos (SMuK) gemeinsam mit den Fachverbaenden Gravitation und Relativitaetstheorie, Strahlen- und Medizinphysik, Teilchenphysik, Theoretische und Mathematische Grundlagen der Physik sowie der Arbeitsgruppe Philosophie der Physik
Dates
29 Feb - 4 Mar 2016
Place
Hamburg (Germany)

Optional Information

Notes
Session: T 106.2 Do 17:05; No further information available
Collaborations
Tunka-Rex-Collaboration