Tunka-Rex: Status, Plans, and Recent Results (ARENA 2016)
F. G. Schr\"oder, P.A. Bezyazeekov, N.M. Budnev, O. Fedorov, O.A., Gress, A. Haungs, R. Hiller, T. Huege, Y. Kazarina, M. Kleifges, E.E., Korosteleva, D. Kostunin, O. Kr\"omer, V. Kungel, L.A. Kuzmichev, N., Lubsandorzhiev, R.R. Mirgazov, R. Monkhoev, E.A. Osipova, A. Pakhorukov

TL;DR
Tunka-Rex is a radio detector array at TAIGA in Siberia that has demonstrated precise measurements of cosmic ray air showers, including shower maximum and energy, and plans to study cosmic-ray composition above 100 PeV.
Contribution
This paper reports the expansion, calibration, and validation of Tunka-Rex, establishing its capability to measure shower maximum and energy with high precision, and integrating it with other detectors for composition studies.
Findings
Radio measurements can determine shower maximum with 40 g/cm^2 precision.
Energy reconstruction accuracy of Tunka-Rex is 15%, total 20%.
Calibration with Tunka-133 and KASCADE-Grande reduces energy scale uncertainty to 10%.
Abstract
Tunka-Rex, the Tunka Radio extension at the TAIGA facility (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy) in Siberia, has recently been expanded to a total number 63 SALLA antennas, most of them distributed on an area of one square kilometer. In the first years of operation, Tunka-Rex was solely triggered by the co-located air-Cherenkov array Tunka-133. The correlation of the measurements by both detectors has provided direct experimental proof that radio arrays can measure the position of the shower maximum. The precision achieved so far is 40 g/cm^2, and several methodical improvements are under study. Moreover, the cross-comparison of Tunka-Rex and Tunka-133 shows that the energy reconstruction of Tunka-Rex is precise to 15 %, with a total accuracy of 20 % including the absolute energy scale. By using exactly the same calibration source for Tunka-Rex and…
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