The KASCADE Cosmic-ray Data Centre KCDC: Granting Open Access to Astroparticle Physics Research Data
Abstract
The `KASCADE Cosmic ray Data Centre' is a web portal (\url{https://kcdc.ikp.kit.edu}), where the data of the astroparticle physics experiment KASCADE-Grande are made available for the interested public. The KASCADE experiment was a large-area detector for the measurement of high-energy cosmic rays via the detection of extensive air showers. The multi-detector installations KASCADE and its extension KASCADE-Grande stopped the active data acquisition in 2013 of all its components end of 2012 after more than 20 years of data taking. In several updates since our first release in 2013 with KCDC we provide the public measured and reconstructed parameters of more than 433 million air showers. In addition, KCDC provides meta data information and documentation to enable a user outside the community of experts to perform their own data analysis. Simulation data from three different high energy interaction models have been made available as well as a compilation of measured and published spectra from various experiments. In addition, detailed educational examples shall encourage high-school students and early stage researchers to learn about astroparticle physics, cosmic radiation as well as the handling of Big Data and about the sustainable and public provision of scientific data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1806.05493,
title = {The KASCADE Cosmic-ray Data Centre KCDC: Granting Open Access to Astroparticle Physics Research Data},
author = {A. Haungs and D. Kang and S. Schoo and D. Wochele and J. Wochele and W. D. Apel and J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez and K. Bekk and M. Bertaina and J. Blümer and H. Bozdog and I. M. Brancus and E. Cantoni and A. Chiavassa and F. Cossavella and K. Daumiller and V. de Souza and F. Di. Pierro and P. Doll and R. Engel and B. Fuchs and D. Fuhrmann and A. Gherghel-Lascu and H. J. Gils and R. Glasstetter and C. Grupen and D. Heck and J. R. Hörandel and T. Huege and K. H. Kampert and H. O. Klages and K. Link and P. Łuczak and H. J. Mathes and H. J. Mayer and J. Milke and B. Mitrica and C. Morello and J. Oehlschläger and S. Ostapchenko and M. Petcu and T. Pierog and H. Rebel and M. Roth and H. Schieler and F. G. Schröder and O. Sima and G. Toma and G. C. Trinchero and H. Ulrich and A. Weindl and J. Zabierowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.05493},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
16 pages, submitted to The European Physical Journal C