Recently, the ISCRA 2023 (The International Symposium on Cosmic Rays and Astrophysics) symposium was held at MEPhI. A significant part of the presentations was devoted to research at the unique NEVOD experimental complex.

 NEVOD experimental complex

The symposium was organized by MEPhI together with the Cosmic Rays and Elementary Particles Consortium under the auspices of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the complex problem "Cosmic rays".

Two major areas of research were discussed at ISCRA: "Cosmic rays of superhigh energies (> 1 PeV)" and "Cosmo- and geophysical aspects of cosmic rays at the earth level".

Within the framework of the second direction, the report "Influence of atmospheric fronts on the flux of cosmic ray muons" by NEVOD post-graduate student Stanislav Timakov (co-authored with the head of NEVOD Anatoly Petrukhin) was presented. It proposed a new approach to the analysis of the muon flux during the passage of atmospheric fronts.

Another aspect of NEVOD's work was revealed in the report "Investigation of muon groups of oblique air showers in the NEVOD-DECOR experiment" of Alexei Bogdanov, Ph.D., senior researcher at NEVOD.

Ivan Troshin, a postgraduate student of NEVOD, reported on the “Current status of the TREK detector for studying muon groups at large zenith angles” at ISCRA 2023. In his report, he spoke about the results associated with the assembly and launch of the inner plane of the TREK detector, presented the first experimental results of TREK, comparison of the TREK and DECOR detectors, and an assessment of the efficiency and accuracy of track reconstruction.