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Probing the evolution of the EAS muon content in the atmosphere with KASCADE-Grande

The evolution of the muon content of very high energy air showers (EAS) in the atmosphere is investigated with data of the KASCADE-Grande observatory. For this purpose, the muon attenuation length in the atmosphere is obtained to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-18 Grande Collaboration , W. D. Apel , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , K. Bekk , M. Bertaina , J. Blümer , H. Bozdog , I. M. Brancus , E. Cantoni , A. Chiavassa , F. Cossavella , K. Daumiller , V. de Souza , F. Di Pierro , P. Doll , R. Engel , D. Fuhrmann , A. Gherghel-Lascu , H. J. Gils , R. Glasstetter , C. Grupen , A. Haungs , D. Heck , J. R. Hörandel , T. Huege , K. -H. Kampert , D. Kang , H. O. Klages , K. Link , P. Łuczak , H. J. Mathes , H. J. Mayer , J. Milke , B. Mitrica , C. Morello , J. Oehlschläger , S. Ostapchenko , T. Pierog , H. Rebel , M. Roth , H. Schieler , S. Schoo , F. G. Schröder , O. Sima , G. Toma , G. C. Trinchero , H. Ulrich , A. Weindl , J. Wochele , J. Zabierowski

Status of the KASCADE-Grande Experiment

The status and capabilities of the KASCADE-Grande extensive air shower experiment are presented. The installation is located at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and comprises a large collecting area (0.5 km^2) electromagnetic array (Grande)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 K. -H. Kampert et al.

Cosmic Ray Energy Spectra and Mass Composition at the Knee - Recent Results from KASCADE -

Recent results from the KASCADE experiment on measurements of cosmic rays in the energy range of the knee are presented. Emphasis is placed on energy spectra of individual mass groups as obtained from an two-dimensional unfolding applied to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 K. -H. Kampert

Systematic uncertainties in air shower measurements from high-energy hadronic interaction models

Hadronic interaction models at cosmic ray (CR) energies are inherently uncertain due to the lack of a fundamental theoretical description of soft hadronic and nuclear interactions and the large extrapolation required from collider energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-26 R. D. Parsons , C. Bleve , S. S. Ostapchenko , J. Knapp

Air Shower Measurements in Karlsruhe

The Karlsruhe multi-detector set-ups KASCADE, KASCADE-Grande, and LOPES aim on measurements of cosmic rays in the energy range of the so called knee between 10^14 eV and 10^18 eV. The multidimensional analysis of the air shower data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Haungs

Systematic Differences due to High Energy Hadronic Interaction Models in Air Shower Simulations in the 100 GeV-100 TeV Range

The predictions of hadronic interaction models for cosmic-ray induced air showers contain inherent uncertainties due to limitations of available accelerator data and theoretical understanding in the required energy and rapidity regime.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-29 R. D. Parsons , H. Schoorlemmer

Determination of the mass and energy of primary cosmic rays above 100 TeV

This analysis aims to determine the mass composition and energy of cosmic rays at energies above 100 TeV based on the lateral distribution of extensive air showers. Here, we propose quite a few air shower observables for reconstructing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-09 R. K. Dey , S. Dam , S. Ray , A. Basak , P. Chattopadhyay

Energy Spectra of Elemental Groups of Cosmic Rays: Update on the KASCADE Unfolding Analysis

The KASCADE experiment measures extensive air showers induced by cosmic rays in the energy range around the so-called knee. The data of KASCADE have been used in a composition analysis showing the knee at 3-5 PeV to be caused by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 KASCADE Collaboration , W. D. Apel

Testing Hadronic Interactions at Ultrahigh Energies with Air Showers Measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray air showers probe particle physics at energies beyond the reach of accelerators. Here we introduce a new method to test hadronic interaction models without relying on the absolute energy calibration, and apply it…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-01 The Pierre Auger Collaboration , A. Aab , P. Abreu , M. Aglietta , E. J. Ahn , I. Al Samarai , I. F. M. Albuquerque , I. Allekotte , J. Allen , P. Allison , A. Almela , J. Alvarez Castillo , J. Alvarez-Muñiz , M. Ambrosio , G. A. Anastasi , L. Anchordoqui , B. Andrada , S. Andringa , C. Aramo , F. Arqueros , N. Arsene , H. Asorey , P. Assis , J. Aublin , G. Avila , A. M. Badescu , C. Baus , J. J. Beatty , K. H. Becker , J. A. Bellido , C. Berat , M. E. Bertaina , X. Bertou , P. L. Biermann , P. Billoir , J. Biteau , S. G. Blaess , A. Blanco , J. Blazek , C. Bleve , H. Blümer , M. Boháčová , D. Boncioli , C. Bonifazi , N. Borodai , A. M. Botti , J. Brack , I. Brancus , T. Bretz , A. Bridgeman , F. L. Briechle , P. Buchholz , A. Bueno , S. Buitink , M. Buscemi , K. S. Caballero-Mora , B. Caccianiga , L. Caccianiga , A. Cancio , F. Canfora , L. Caramete , R. Caruso , A. Castellina , G. Cataldi , L. Cazon , R. Cester , A. G. Chavez , A. Chiavassa , J. A. Chinellato , J. Chudoba , R. W. Clay , R. Colalillo , A. Coleman , L. Collica , M. R. Coluccia , R. Conceição , F. Contreras , M. J. Cooper , S. Coutu , C. E. Covault , J. Cronin , R. Dallier , S. D'Amico , B. Daniel , S. Dasso , K. Daumiller , B. R. Dawson , R. M. de Almeida , S. J. de Jong , G. De Mauro , J. R. T. de Mello Neto , I. De Mitri , J. de Oliveira , V. de Souza , J. Debatin , L. del Peral , O. Deligny , N. Dhital , C. Di Giulio , A. Di Matteo , M. L. Díaz Castro , F. Diogo , C. Dobrigkeit , J. C. D'Olivo , A. Dorofeev , R. C. dos Anjos , M. T. Dova , A. Dundovic , J. Ebr , R. Engel , M. Erdmann , M. Erfani , C. O. Escobar , J. Espadanal , A. Etchegoyen , H. Falcke , K. Fang , G. Farrar , A. C. Fauth , N. Fazzini , A. P. Ferguson , B. Fick , J. M. Figueira , A. Filevich , A. Filipčič , O. Fratu , M. M. Freire , T. Fujii , A. Fuster , F. Gallo , B. García , D. Garcia-Pinto , F. Gate , H. Gemmeke , A. Gherghel-Lascu , P. L. Ghia , U. Giaccari , M. Giammarchi , M. Giller , D. Głas , C. Glaser , H. Glass , G. Golup , M. Gómez Berisso , P. F. Gómez Vitale , N. González , B. Gookin , J. Gordon , A. Gorgi , P. Gorham , P. Gouffon , N. Griffith , A. F. Grillo , T. D. Grubb , F. Guarino , G. P. Guedes , M. R. Hampel , P. Hansen , D. Harari , T. A. Harrison , J. L. Harton , Q. Hasankiadeh , A. Haungs , T. Hebbeker , D. Heck , P. Heimann , A. E. Herve , G. C. Hill , C. Hojvat , N. Hollon , E. Holt , P. Homola , J. R. Hörandel , P. Horvath , M. Hrabovský , T. Huege , J. Hulsman , A. Insolia , P. G. Isar , I. Jandt , S. Jansen , C. Jarne , J. A. Johnsen , M. Josebachuili , A. Kääpä , O. Kambeitz , K. H. Kampert , P. Kasper , I. Katkov , B. Keilhauer , E. Kemp , R. M. Kieckhafer , H. O. Klages , M. Kleifges , J. Kleinfeller , R. Krause , N. Krohm , D. Kuempel , G. Kukec Mezek , N. Kunka , A. Kuotb Awad , D. LaHurd , L. Latronico , M. Lauscher , P. Lautridou , P. Lebrun , R. Legumina , M. A. Leigui de Oliveira , A. Letessier-Selvon , I. Lhenry-Yvon , K. Link , L. Lopes , R. López , A. López Casado , A. Lucero , M. Malacari , M. Mallamaci , D. Mandat , P. Mantsch , A. G. Mariazzi , V. Marin , I. C. Mariş , G. Marsella , D. Martello , H. Martinez , O. Martínez Bravo , J. J. Masías Meza , H. J. Mathes , S. Mathys , J. Matthews , J. A. J. Matthews , G. Matthiae , D. Maurizio , E. Mayotte , P. O. Mazur , C. Medina , G. Medina-Tanco , V. B. B. Mello , D. Melo , A. Menshikov , S. Messina , M. I. Micheletti , L. Middendorf , I. A. Minaya , L. Miramonti , B. Mitrica , D. Mockler , L. Molina-Bueno , S. Mollerach , F. Montanet , C. Morello , M. Mostafá , C. A. Moura , G. Müller , M. A. Muller , S. Müller , I. Naranjo , S. Navas , P. Necesal , L. Nellen , A. Nelles , J. Neuser , P. H. Nguyen , M. Niculescu-Oglinzanu , M. Niechciol , L. Niemietz , T. Niggemann , D. Nitz , D. Nosek , V. Novotny , H. Nožka , L. A. Núñez , L. Ochilo , F. Oikonomou , A. Olinto , D. Pakk Selmi-Dei , M. Palatka , J. Pallotta , P. Papenbreer , G. Parente , A. Parra , T. Paul , M. Pech , F. Pedreira , J. Pękala , R. Pelayo , J. Peña-Rodriguez , I. M. Pepe , L. A. S. Pereira , L. Perrone , E. Petermann , C. Peters , S. Petrera , J. Phuntsok , R. Piegaia , T. Pierog , P. Pieroni , M. Pimenta , V. Pirronello , M. Platino , M. Plum , C. Porowski , R. R. Prado , P. Privitera , M. Prouza , E. J. Quel , S. Querchfeld , S. Quinn , J. Rautenberg , O. Ravel , D. Ravignani , B. Revenu , J. Ridky , M. Risse , P. Ristori , V. Rizi , W. Rodrigues de Carvalho , J. Rodriguez Rojo , M. D. Rodríguez-Frías , D. Rogozin , J. Rosado , M. Roth , E. Roulet , A. C. Rovero , S. J. Saffi , A. Saftoiu , H. Salazar , A. Saleh , F. Salesa Greus , G. Salina , J. D. Sanabria Gomez , F. Sánchez , P. Sanchez-Lucas , E. M. Santos , E. Santos , F. Sarazin , B. Sarkar , R. Sarmento , C. Sarmiento-Cano , R. Sato , C. Scarso , M. Schauer , V. Scherini , H. Schieler , D. Schmidt , O. Scholten , H. Schoorlemmer , P. Schovánek , F. G. Schröder , A. Schulz , J. Schulz , J. Schumacher , S. J. Sciutto , A. Segreto , M. Settimo , A. Shadkam , R. C. Shellard , G. Sigl , O. Sima , A. Śmiałkowski , R. Šmída , G. R. Snow , P. Sommers , S. Sonntag , J. Sorokin , R. Squartini , D. Stanca , S. Stanič , J. Stapleton , J. Stasielak , F. Strafella , A. Stutz , F. Suarez , M. Suarez Durán , T. Sudholz , T. Suomijärvi , A. D. Supanitsky , M. S. Sutherland , J. Swain , Z. Szadkowski , O. A. Taborda , A. Tapia , A. Tepe , V. M. Theodoro , C. Timmermans , C. J. Todero Peixoto , L. Tomankova , B. Tomé , A. Tonachini , G. Torralba Elipe , D. Torres Machado , P. Travnicek , M. Trini , R. Ulrich , M. Unger , M. Urban , A. Valbuena-Delgado , J. F. Valdés Galicia , I. Valiño , L. Valore , G. van Aar , P. van Bodegom , A. M. van den Berg , A. van Vliet , E. Varela , B. Vargas Cárdenas , G. Varner , J. R. Vázquez , R. A. Vázquez , D. Veberič , V. Verzi , J. Vicha , M. Videla , L. Villaseñor , S. Vorobiov , H. Wahlberg , O. Wainberg , D. Walz , A. A. Watson , M. Weber , A. Weindl , L. Wiencke , H. Wilczyński , T. Winchen , D. Wittkowski , B. Wundheiler , S. Wykes , L. Yang , T. Yapici , D. Yelos , E. Zas , D. Zavrtanik , M. Zavrtanik , A. Zepeda , B. Zimmermann , M. Ziolkowski , Z. Zong , F. Zuccarello

Hadronic Multiparticle Production at Ultra-High Energies and Extensive Air Showers

Studies of the nature of cosmic ray particles at the highest energies are based on the measurement of extensive air showers. Most cosmic ray properties can therefore only be obtained from the interpretation of air shower data and are thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-31 Ralf Ulrich , Ralph Engel , Michael Unger

Test of high-energy interaction models using the hadronic core of EAS

Using the large hadron calorimeter of the KASCADE experiment, hadronic cores of extensive air showers have been studied. The hadron lateral and energy distributions have been investigated in order to study the reliability of the shower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Antoni , J. R. Hoerandel

The KASCADE Cosmic-ray Data Centre KCDC: Granting Open Access to Astroparticle Physics Research Data

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 A. Haungs , D. Kang , S. Schoo , D. Wochele , J. Wochele , W. D. Apel , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , K. Bekk , M. Bertaina , J. Blümer , H. Bozdog , I. M. Brancus , E. Cantoni , A. Chiavassa , F. Cossavella , K. Daumiller , V. de Souza , F. Di. Pierro , P. Doll , R. Engel , B. Fuchs , D. Fuhrmann , A. Gherghel-Lascu , H. J. Gils , R. Glasstetter , C. Grupen , D. Heck , J. R. Hörandel , T. Huege , K. H. Kampert , H. O. Klages , K. Link , P. Łuczak , H. J. Mathes , H. J. Mayer , J. Milke , B. Mitrica , C. Morello , J. Oehlschläger , S. Ostapchenko , M. Petcu , T. Pierog , H. Rebel , M. Roth , H. Schieler , F. G. Schröder , O. Sima , G. Toma , G. C. Trinchero , H. Ulrich , A. Weindl , J. Zabierowski

Forward physics : from SPS to LHC, what can we learn from air showers ?

Since recent RHIC data and the development of new theories for small x physics, a new interest appeared for forward physics. At LHC, a correct description of multiple parton interactions will be crucial to understand all the results. On the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-09 T. Pierog

The spectrum of high-energy cosmic rays measured with KASCADE-Grande

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays between 10**16 eV and 10**18 eV, derived from measurements of the shower size (total number of charged particles) and the total muon number of extensive air showers by the KASCADE-Grande experiment, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 Grande Collaboration , W. D. Apel , J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez , K. Bekk , M. Bertaina , J. Bluemer , H. Bozdog , I. M. Brancus , P. Buchholz , E. Cantoni , A. Chiavassa , F. Cossavella , K. Daumiller , V. de Souza , F. Di Pierro , P. Doll , R. Engel , J. Engler , M. Finger , D. Fuhrmann , P. L. Ghia , H. J. Gils , R. Glasstetter , C. Grupen , A. Haungs , D. Heck , J. R. Hoerandel , D. Huber , T. Huege , K. -H. Kampert , D. Kang , D. Kickelbick , H. O. Klages , K. Link , P. Luczak , M. Ludwig , H. J. Mathes , H. J. Mayer , M. Melissas , J. Milke , B. Mitrica , C. Morello , G. Navarra , J. Oehlschlaeger , S. Ostapchenko , S. Over , N. Palmieri , M. Petcu , T. Pierog , H. Rebel , M. Roth , H. Schieler , F. G. Schroeder , O. Sima , G. Toma , G. C. Trinchero , H. Ulrich , A. Weindl , J. Wochele , M. Wommer , J. Zabierowski

On the scent of the knee - air shower measurements with KASCADE

Detailed investigations of extensive air showers have been performed with the data measured by the KASCADE experiment. The results allow to evaluate hadronic interaction models, used in simulations to interpret air shower data. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 KASCADE Collaboration , J. R. Hoerandel

High Energy Physics in the Atmosphere: Phenomenology of Cosmic Ray Air Showers

The properties of cosmic rays with energies above 10**6 GeV have to be deduced from the spacetime structure and particle content of the air showers which they initiate. In this review we summarize the phenomenology of these giant air…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Luis Anchordoqui , Maria Teresa Dova , Analisa Mariazzi , Thomas McCauley , Thomas Paul , Stephen Reucroft , John Swain

Cosmic Rays in the 'Knee'-Region - Recent Results from KASCADE -

Recent results from the KASCADE experiment on measurements of cosmic rays in the energy range of the knee are presented. Emphasis is placed on energy spectra of individual mass groups as obtained from sophisticated unfolding procedures…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. -H. Kampert , KASCADE-Grande Collaboration

Sensitivity of Extensive Air Showers to Features of Hadronic Interactions at Ultra-High Energies

We study the dependence of extensive air shower development on the first hadronic interactions at ultra-high energies occurring in the startup phase of the air shower cascade. The interpretation of standard air shower observables depends on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-03 Ralf Ulrich , Ralph Engel , Steffen Müller , Tanguy Pierog , Fabian Schüssler , Michael Unger

Dissecting the knee - Air shower measurements with KASCADE

Recent results of the KASCADE air shower experiment are presented in order to shed some light on the astrophysics of cosmic rays in the region of the knee in the energy spectrum. The results include investigations of high-energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. R. Hoerandel et al

First Results from the KASCADE Air-Shower Experiment

A new extensive air shower (EAS) experiment has been installed at the laboratory site of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The major goal of the experiment is to determine the chemical composition in the energy range around and above the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 KASCADE Collaboration , K. -H. Kampert