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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 49: Gammaastronomie 3
T 49.1: Group Report
Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 16:45–17:05, P2
Status of the 9-station Tunka-HiSCORE array: stepping towards multi square-km scales — •Martin Tluczykont1, Martin Brückner2, Sergey Epimakhov1, Dieter Horns1, Maike Kunnas1, Rayk Nachtigall1, Andrea Porelli3, Manuel Rüger2, and Ralf Wischnewski3 — 1Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg — 2Institut für Informatik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin — 3DESY, Zeuthen
HiSCORE is a concept for a non-imaging survey instrument for gamma-ray observations above 10 TeV and for cosmic ray physics above 100 TeV. The Tunka-HiSCORE experiment has deployed a first detector stage consisting of 9 detector stations in the Tunka valley in Siberia. Distributed over an area of 0.3x0.3 km2, this phase of the experiment is operational since October 2013, using fast pulse sampling electronics (GHz) and accurate time-stamping (1 ns). This presentation will give an overview of the physics goals, the status of the prototype array and its extension to 1 km2 in 2015, and our goals towards a large array of up to 100 km2.