Watch space scientists ISU will be a gamma-ray telescope in Tunkinskaya Valley - TVNZ

TUNKA was chosen by chance: in this area clear nights, which are ideal for research Photo: Julia Pyhalova

from plans into actions. Finally, the construction of the world’s largest gamma-ray telescope TUNKA-HiSCORE . As expected, it will be located on astrophysical range of Irkutsk State University , which is in the valley of Buryatia Tunkinskaya.

– unparalleled in the world of the installation will detect high-energy particles coming from the Universe – tells project manager director of the Institute of Applied Physics, Irkutsk State University Nicholas Budnev . – In Tunkinskaya Valley will have the opportunity to study the particles whose energy is much higher than in the famous Hadron Collider.

This is a real breakthrough, not only of Irkutsk, but the Russian science. Event for our country akin to the first manned flight into space. Ultrasensitive, a super gamma-ray telescope, surpassing the capabilities of all existing settings in the world will be present, construction of the century.

project is for three years. The forerunner of this important event was the introduction into service in 2009 in Tunkinskaya Valley unique installation TUNKA-133 for the study of cosmic rays. TUNKA was chosen by chance: in this area clear nights, which are ideal for our research. But the existing facility lacks sufficient sensitivity and accuracy to allocate relatively rare and mild outbreak of gamma rays on the background of other events. We do not see the stars during the day in sunlight.

– Large gamma-ray telescope TUNKA-HiSCORE will be ten times higher sensitivity and resolution – continues to Irkutsk physicist. -This will allow for the first time in the world to observe and investigate the so-called pevatrony – astrophysical objects that emit gamma rays with an energy of a million billion more than the photons of visible light. Installation will include about 1,000 detectors distributed over an area of ??at least 10 m. km.

will supervise the project director of the Institute of Applied Physics, Irkutsk State University Nicholas Budnev Photo: Julia Pyhalova

now on the range of new optical set 10 stations and 20 stations for the detection of charged particles that are produced in the interaction of cosmic rays with the atmosphere.

– During the construction of these detectors will be using equipment which has arrived from Germany – reported in the press service of the ISU. – Recall that in April 2013, Irkutsk physicists have won the grant the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of 90 million rubles . It is this amount spent on equipment.

In our scientists to work on the project will be known German astrophysicist, project manager and MAGIC research group at the Physics Institute of the Max Planck (Germany) Razmik Mirzoyan . He already has a lot of experience in building large facilities and for himself a huge interest to create something new and different, that has not happened in the world. He was the first overseas will arrive in August, and that’s when he will visit the space in the landfill Tunkinskaya Valley.

– His visit will be the beginning of a new era – adds Nicholas weekdays. – Now to visit us will be coming foreign scientists and work on our setup. In addition, Russian physicists will not have to travel abroad to study particle accelerators, because now there is a huge telescope in Russia.