Status, results and plans after 3 years of Tunka-Rex operation
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.
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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)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 48053609
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCURACY; AIR; ANTENNAS; CHERENKOV COUNTERS; COSMIC RAY DETECTION; ENERGY RESOLUTION; EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS; MASS SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PEV RANGE; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION; RADIOWAVE RADIATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SIBERIA; TRIGGER CIRCUITS
- Descriptors DEC
- ASIA; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC SHOWERS; DETECTION; EASTERN EUROPE; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS; ENERGY RANGE; EQUIPMENT; EUROPE; FLUIDS; GASES; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PULSE CIRCUITS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; RESOLUTION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; SHOWERS; SPECTROSCOPY
Optional Information
- Notes
- Session: T 106.2 Do 17:05; No further information available
- Collaborations
- Tunka-Rex-Collaboration