EPJ Web of Conferences (Jan 2019)

Time calibration of the neutrino telescope Baikal-GVD

  • Avrorin A.D.,
  • Avrorin A.V.,
  • Aynutdinov V.M.,
  • Bannash R.,
  • Belolaptikov I.A.,
  • Brudanin V.B.,
  • Budnev N.M.,
  • Doroshenko A.A.,
  • Domogatsky G.V.,
  • Dvornický R.,
  • Dyachok A.N.,
  • Dzhilkibaev Zh.-A.M.,
  • Fajt L.,
  • Fialkovsky S.V.,
  • Gafarov A.R.,
  • Golubkov K.V.,
  • Gorshkov N.S.,
  • Gres T.I.,
  • Kebkal K.G.,
  • Kebkal O.G.,
  • Khramov E.V.,
  • Kolbin M.M.,
  • Konischev K.V.,
  • Korobchenko A.P.,
  • Koshechkin A.P.,
  • Kozhin V.A.,
  • Kruglov M.V.,
  • Kryukov M.K.,
  • Kulepov V.F.,
  • Kuleshov D.A.,
  • Milenin M.B.,
  • Mirgazov R.A.,
  • Nazari V.,
  • Panfilov A.I.,
  • Petukhov D.P.,
  • Pliskovsky E.N.,
  • Rozanov M.I.,
  • Rjabov E.V.,
  • Rushay V. D.,
  • Safronov G.B.,
  • Shaibonov B.A.,
  • Šimkovic F.,
  • Shelepov M.D.,
  • Shtekl I.,
  • Solovjev A.G.,
  • Sorokovikov M.N.,
  • Suvorova O.V.,
  • Tabolenko V.A.,
  • Tarashansky B.A.,
  • Yakovlev S.A.,
  • Zagorodnikov A.V.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920707003
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 207
p. 07003

Abstract

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Baikal-GVD is a cubic-kilometer scale neutrino telescope, which is currently under construction in Lake Baikal. Baikal-GVD is an array of optical modules arranged in clusters. The first cluster of the array has been deployed and commissioned in April 2015. To date, Baikal-GVD consists of 3 clusters with 864 optical modules. One of the vital conditions for optimal energy, position and direction reconstruction of the detected particles is the time calibration of the detector. In this article, we describe calibration equipment and methods used in Baikal-GVD and demonstrate the accuracy of the calibration procedures.