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Baikal-GVD: status and prospects

  • 1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, 117312 (Russian Federation)
  • 2. EvoLogics, Berlin (Germany)
  • 3. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980 (Russian Federation)
  • 4. Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, 664003 (Russian Federation)
  • 5. Comenius University, Bratislava (Slovakia)
  • 6. Czech Technical University, Prague (Czech Republic)
  • 7. Nizhni Novgorod State Technical University, Nizhni Novgorod, 603950 (Russian Federation)
  • 8. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991 (Russian Federation)
  • 9. St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University, St. Petersburg, 190008 (Russian Federation)

Description

Baikal Gigaton Volume Detector (GVD) is a next generation, kilometer-scale neutrino telescope under construction in Lake Baikal. It is designed to detect astrophysical neutrino fluxes at energies from a few TeV up to 100 PeV. GVD is formed by multi-megaton subarrays (clusters). The array construction started in 2015 by deployment of a reduced-size demonstration cluster named 'Dubna'. The first cluster in its baseline configuration was deployed in 2016, the second in 2017 and the third in 2018. The full-scale GVD will be an array of #approx# 10.000 light sensors with an instrumented volume about of 2 cubic km. The first phase (GVD-1) is planned to be completed by 2020-2021. It will comprise 8 clusters with 2304 light sensors in total. We describe the design of Baikal-GVD and present selected results obtained in 2015 - 2017. (authors)

Availability note (English)

Available from doi: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201819101006
Part of:
EPJ Web of Conferences, Proceedings of the 20. international seminar on high energy physics - Quarks-2018

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Publishing Information

Publisher
EDP Sciences
Imprint Place
Les Ulis (France)
Imprint Title
EPJ Web of Conferences, Proceedings of the 20. international seminar on high energy physics - Quarks-2018
Imprint Pagination
v. 191 [860 p.]
Journal Page Range
p. 01006.p.1-01006.p.9

Conference

Title
20. international seminar on high energy physics
Acronym
Quarks-2018
Dates
27 May - 2 Jun 2018
Place
Valday (Russian Federation)

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Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
52071255
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
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Conference
Descriptors DEI
ASTROPHYSICS; DESIGN; DUBNA; LAKE BAIKAL; NEUTRINOS; PEV RANGE; SENSORS; TELESCOPES; TEV RANGE
Descriptors DEC
EASTERN EUROPE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; EUROPE; FERMIONS; LAKES; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PHYSICS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SURFACE WATERS

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