Baksan Air Shower Array: new prospects for old facility
Journal: EPJ Web of Conferences
Year: 2019

The Carpet air shower array of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory is in operation for a long time, and it was modernized more than once. A short review of important results obtained with this array is given, as well as future prospects, since at the moment the new project called Carpet-3 is in progress, using the old array as its basis. The purpose of the new project is to substantially increase the muon detector area (quite soon up to 400 m 2 and later up to 600 m 2 ). This improvement will allow