2019, Prosin, V. V., Bezyazeekov, P. A., Boreyko, V., Borodin, A. N., Astapov, I. I., Kindin, V. V., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Yashin, I. I., Астапов, Иван Иванович, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract: The Tunka-133 Cherenkov complex for recording extensive air showers (EAS) collected data over seven winters from 2009 to 2017. The differential energy spectra of all particles was acquired in the 6 × 1015–3 × 1018 eV range of energies over 2175 h. The TAIGA-HiSCORE complex is continually being expanded and upgraded. Data acquired by 30 first-line stations over 35 days during the period 2017–2018 is analyzed in this work. As at the Tunka-133 setup, the primary particle energies above 1015 eV are measured using the density of the Cherenkov light flux at a distance of 200 m from a shower’s axis. Data on lower energies are collected by determining the energy of the light flux near a shower’s axis. This results in a spectrum of 2 × 1014–1017 eV. The combined spectrum for the two systems covers a range of 2 × 1014–2 × 1018 eV.

2019, Budnev, N. M., Bezyazeekov, P. A., Borodin, A. N., Wischnewski, R., Astapov, I. I., Kindin, V. V., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Yashin, I. I., Астапов, Иван Иванович, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract: The relevance and benefits of the new TAIGA gamma observatory complex in the Tunka Valley (50 km from Lake Baikal) are discussed. The main aim of the TAIGA installation is to study high-energy gamma radiation and search for cosmic pevatrons. The first series of gamma stations was commissioned in 2019 and covers an area of 1 km2. Its expected integral gamma radiation sensitivity at an energy of 100 TeV over 300 h of source monitoring is (2–5) × 10−13 TeV cm−2 s−1. It is planned to expand the effective area of TAIGA gamma observation to 10 km2 in the future.

2020, Chernukh, D., Krykov, A., Silaev, A., Suvorkin, Y., Astapov, I., Kindin, V., Kokoulin, R., Kompaniets, K., Petrukhin, A., Yashin, I., Астапов, Иван Иванович, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab.The TAIGA astroparticle observatory is under development at Tunka valley close to the Baikal Lake. This simulation study is concentrated on the ultrahigh energy extensive air showers (EAS) induced by gamma-quanta or proton in the range from 1 PeV to 10 PeV and zenith angle ranging 0°-45°. For this work, a set of air showers was created by CORSIKA software package. The list of useful secondary particles at the ground level is produced using the COAST library package. The interaction of secondary particles with the soil and detectors was simulated with GEANT4 package. The method based on neural network has been developed for the separation of EAS induced by gamma-quanta or proton. The air showers having energy ranging 1-10 PeV show more than 90% of identification efficiency of protons while keeping identification efficiency of gamma around 50% or more.

2019, Mannocchi, G., Trinchero, G., Yurina, E. A., Barbashina, N. S., Bogdanov, A. G., Khokhlov, S. S., Kindin, V. V., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Shutenko, V. V., Yashin, I. I., Юрина, Екатерина Александровна, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Богданов, Алексей Георгиевич, Хохлов, Семен Сергеевич, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.Investigations of the energy loss of muon bundles are being conducted at the Experimental complex NEVOD. Such investigations are directed to detailed study of “muon puzzle” (the excess of multi-muon events observed in several cosmic ray experiments at ultra-high energies). Results of measurements of the muon bundle energy deposit during a long period of observations in primary cosmic ray energy range 10–1000 PeV have been obtained and have been compared with simulations performed on the basis of the CORSIKA code.

2019, Bezyazeekov, P., Borodin, A., Brueckner, M., Budnev, N., Astapov, I., Kindin, V., Kokoulin, R., Kompaniets, K., Petrukhin, A., Yashin, I., Астапов, Иван Иванович, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2018 It is planned that new TAIGA-Muon detectors will complement the existing Tunka-GRANDE facility of scintillation detectors of the TAIGA gamma-observatory in the Tunka valley, Russia. The new design of scintillation detector with wavelength shifting bars and PMTs is developed. The first prototype of the counter was installed and tested using infrastructure of the Tunka-GRANDE installation in 2017. The mass production of counters has begun in 2018 at the Novosibirsk State University.

2019, Sveshnikova, L. G., Bezyazeekov, P. A., Boreyko, V., Borodin, A. N., Astapov, I. I., Kindin, V. V., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Yashin, I. I., Астапов, Иван Иванович, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract: Work is currently under way in the Tunka Valley, 50 km from Lake Baikal, to create the TAIGA gamma observatory for studying gamma radiation and cosmic ray fluxes in the 1013–1018 eV range of energies. To detect gamma rays with energies above tens of TeV, a hybrid method of detecting showers is implemented. It is based on data obtained by the TAIGA Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) and the wide-angle TAIGA-HiSCORE array. The preliminary results from processing the telescope’s data for the low-energy region (>2–3 TeV) are presented. Joint events with energy more than 50 TeV are analyzed and compared to Monte Carlo calculations.

2019, Yashin, I. I., Astapov, I. I., Barbashina, N. S., Dmitrieva, A. N., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Shutenko, V. V., Яшин, Игорь Иванович, Астапов, Иван Иванович, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Дмитриева, Анна Николаевна, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract: Continuous monitoring of the muon flux over wide ranges of zenith and azimuth angles with the URAGAN detector (Moscow, 55.7° N, 37.7° E, 173 m AMSL) allows detection of variations in its intensity and angular distribution. A way of locating domains of anisotropy in the muon angular distribution is described, and they are mapped in matrix form in the GSE coordinate system. The maximum depth (height) of deformation, the zenith and azimuth angles of the center in the local system, and its GSE longitude and latitude are determined for each observed domain. The GSE longitudes of the detected domains of anisotropy are available on the Internet as functions of time and can be used to monitor the heliosphere’s activity.

2019, Postnikov, E. B., Bezyazeekov, P. A., Boreyko, V. F., Borodin, A. N., Astapov, I. I., Kindin, V. V., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Postnikov, E. B., Yashin, I. I., Астапов, Иван Иванович, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract—: The TAIGA (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma-ray Astronomy) experiment aims at observing gamma-rays in the energy range from 1 TeV to several 100 TeV. The operation of the observatory is based on a new hybrid approach that combines imaging air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) and wide-angle Cherenkov detectors (TAIGA-HiSCORE) for measuring times of extensive air shower (EAS) light front arrival. Monte Carlo simulations are compared to real data to determine the performance of the detector setup. Dedicated software and algorithms are described, model parameters are given, and an overview of the current status of model-based performance studies is presented.

2022, Астапов, Иван Иванович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович, Кокоулин, Ростислав Павлович, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Astapov, I. I., Kindin, V. V., Kokoulin, R. P., Kompaniets, K. G., Petrukhin, A. A., Yashin, I. I., Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Киндин, Виктор Владимирович

The TAIGA experiment in Tunka valley is expanding the present scintillation detector array with new TAIGA-Muon detector stations. A simulation model was developed for optimization of the layout of the new stations and study of the identification performance of the array. The extensive air showers (EASs) were simulated with the CORSIKA simulation tool, and the detector response was simulated with the GEANT4 package. EASs induced by gamma quanta or protons in the energy range from 1 PeV to 10 PeV and the zenith angle range from 0° to 45°, are used for these studies. For the identification of high energy extensive air showers, a method based on a neural network was suggested. With this method, the proton identification efficiency is more than 90%, while the gamma identification efficiency not less than 50%.

2019, Kovylyaeva, A. A., Astapov, I. I., Barbashina, N. S., Borog, V. V., Dmitrieva, A. N., Kompaniets, K. G., Mishutina, Y. N., Petrukhin, A. A., Shutenko, V. V., Yakovleva, E. I., Yashin, I. I., Астапов, Иван Иванович, Барбашина, Наталья Сергеевна, Борог, Владимир Викторович, Дмитриева, Анна Николаевна, Компаниец, Константин Георгиевич, Мишутина, Юлия Николаевна, Петрухин, Анатолий Афанасьевич, Шутенко, Виктор Викторович, Яшин, Игорь Иванович

© 2019, Allerton Press, Inc.Abstract: Results are presented from an analysis of changes in the muon flux of cosmic rays during Forbush effects, recorded by the URAGAN muon hodoscope in the period 2012–2017 and the scintillation muon hodoscope in 2016–2017. Characteristics of the Forbush effects for this period are analyzed. The obtained characteristics of muon flux variations are compared to different parameters of the near heliosphere during the Forbush effects for the 11-year cycle of solar activity.