The Tunka Experiment: Towards a 1-km^2 EAS Cherenkov Light Array in the Tunka Valley

Budnev, N. M.; Chernov, D. V.; Gress, O. A.; Kalmykov, N. N.; Kozhin, V. A.; Korosteleva, E. E.; Kuzmichev, L. A.; Lubsandorzhiev, B. K.; Navarra, G.; Panasyuk, M. I.; Pankov, L. V.; Parfenov, Yu. V.; Prosin, V. V.; Ptuskin, V. S.; Semeney, Yu. A.; Shirokov, A. V.; Skurikhin, A. V.; Spiering, C.; Wischnewski, R.; Yashin, I. V.

The Tunka Experiment: Towards a 1-km^2 EAS Cherenkov Light Array in the Tunka Valley

Authors

Lubsandorzhiev, B. K.

Navarra, G.

Panasyuk, M. I.

Description

The project of an EAS Cherenkov array in the Tunka valley/Siberia with an area of about 1 km2 is presented. The new array will have a ten times bigger area than the existing Tunka-25 array and will permit a detailed study of the cosmic ray energy spectrum and the mass composition in the energy range from 10^15 to 10^18 eV.
4 pages, 2 figures, ICRC2005, rus-kuzmichev-LA-abs1-he15-poster