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Baikal-GVD
The international project in high-energy particle astrophysics, neutrino astronomy, and neutrino physics

Objectives of the project

Constructing the Baikal Deep-Underwater Neutrino Telescope Baikal-GVD, with a detection volume of one cubic kilometer, as well as ensuring its continuous operation and maintenance.

Tasks of the project

Creating a full-scale infrastructure of the Baikal Neutrino Station; developing and refining methods to analyze experimental data; implementing scientific research programmes in neutrino astronomy and high-energy particle astrophysics.

International Cooperation

The Baikal-GVD Neutrino Telescope is one of three neutrino detectors worldwide. Located in the Northern Hemisphere, it is part of the Global Neutrino Network (GNN), along with IceCube at the South Pole and KM3NeT in the Mediterranean Sea. This global network can be considered the first stage of establishing the Global Neutrino Observatory (GNO) aimed at facilitating a close cooperation among scientists around the world and exchange of data, experience, and knowledge.

We in Media
On March 13, 2021, in the middle of the installation campaign (from February 17 till April 4), the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation visited the site of the neutrino telescope to officially launch the detector and to sign the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) on development of the BAIKAL-GVD Neutrino Telescope. In 2021, BAIKAL-GVD increased its effective volume for showering neutrino interactions up to 0.4 km3.