Speaker
Description
Baikal-GVD is a cubic-kilometer scale neutrino telescope, optimized for
TeV-PeV neutrino energy range, being constructed in the southern part
of Lake Baikal. The detector is a three-dimensional array of hermetic
containers with enclosed PMTs located at depths between 750 and 1275 m
and organized into independent sub-arrays - clusters. Presently the
telescope includes 16 clusters and its sensitive volume is about 0.8
km^3. Neutrinos interacting in the vicinity of the detector are
reconstructed using cascade or track -like event signatures generated
respectively by cascades of charged particles or muons produced in the
interaction and propagating through the detector volume. In the
present report we discuss the status of the telescope and present
first astrophysical results from the incomplete detector. We report on the
measurement of astrophysical neutrino diffuse flux using cascade
events and present neutrino source searches using both cascade and
track -like events and other data analysis results. We discuss the
real-time alert program being developed at Baikal-GVD.
