Deep-Water Neutrino Telescope in Lake Baikal

• Published in: Physics of atomic nuclei Vol. 84; no. 9; pp. 1600 - 1609
• Main Authors: Allakhverdyan, V. A., Avrorin, A. D., Avrorin, A. V., Aynutdinov, V. M., Bannasch, R., Bardačová, Z., Belolaptikov, I. A., Borina, I. V., Brudanin, V. B., Budnev, N. M., Dik, V. Y., Domogatsky, G. V., Doroshenko, A. A., Dvornický, R., Dyachok, A. N., Dzhilkibaev, Zh.-A. M., Eckerová, E., Elzhov, T. V., Fajt, L., Fialkovsky, S. V., Gafarov, A. R., Golubkov, K. V., Gorshkov, N. S., Gress, T. I., Katulin, M. S., Kebkal, K. G., Kebkal, O. G., Khramov, E. V., Kolbin, M. M., Konischev, K. V., Kopański, K. A., Korobchenko, A. V., Koshechkin, A. P., Kozhin, V. A., Kruglov, M. V., Kryukov, M. K., Kulepov, V. F., Malecki, Pa, Malyshkin, Y. M., Milenin, M. B., Mirgazov, R. R., Naumov, D. V., Nazari, V., Noga, W., Petukhov, D. P., Pliskovsky, E. N., Rozanov, M. I., Rushay, V. D., Ryabov, E. V., Safronov, G. B., Shaybonov, B. A., Shelepov, M. D., Šimkovic, F., Sirenko, A. E., Skurikhin, A. V., Solovjev, A. G., Sorokovikov, M. N., Štekl, I., Stromakov, A. P., Sushenok, E. O., Suvorova, O. V., Tabolenko, V. A., Taraschansky, B. A., Yablokova, Y. V., Yakovlev, S. A., Zaborov, D. N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.12.2021; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Astrophysics; Data entry; Detectors; Engineering Design of Equipment for Nuclear Physics; Neutrinos; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Particle physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Sensors; Telescope; Telescopes; Water engineering; Lake Baikal; neutrino; muon; deep-water engineering; Baikal; data acquisition system; neutrino telescope
• ISSN: 1063-7788; 1562-692X
• DOI: 10.1134/S1063778821090064

The Baikal-GVD deep-water neutrino telescope of the cubic kilometer scale, focused on research in the field of astrophysics and particle physics, is being built in Lake Baikal. As of 2021, the effective volume of the detector reaches 0.4 km 3 for cascades generated by high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The paper describes the design and basic characteristics of the telescope data acquisition system, discusses some aspects of deep-water engineering related to the deployment of the detector, and presents selected results obtained with the partially complete detector.