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One of the main objectives of the CREDO project is to search for so-called Cosmic-Ray Ensembles (CRE) \cite{homola2020cosmic}. To confirm the existence of such phenomena a massive scale observation of even relatively low energy Extensive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-05 Jerzy Pryga , Weronika Stanek

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…

It is expected that a radio signal in the microwave range is produced in the atmosphere due to molecular bremsstrahlung initiated by extensive air showers. The CROME (Cosmic-Ray Observation via Microwave Emission) experiment was built to…

Cosmic Rays (CR) impinging on the terrestrial atmosphere provide a viable opportunity to study new physics in hadron-nucleus collisions at energies covering many orders of magnitude, including a regime well beyond LHC energies. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Oliver Fischer , Maximilian Reininghaus , Ralf Ulrich

The Moscow State University Extensive Air Shower (EAS-MSU) array studied high-energy cosmic rays with primary energies ~(1-500) PeV in the Northern hemisphere. The EAS-MSU data are being revisited following recently found indications to an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 Yu. A. Fomin , N. N. Kalmykov , I. S. Karpikov , G. V. Kulikov , M. Yu. Kuznetsov , G. I. Rubtsov , V. P. Sulakov , S. V. Troitsky

When high-energy cosmic rays (gamma's, protons, or heavy nuclei) impinge onto the Earth's atmosphere, they interact at high altitude with the air nuclei as targets. By repeated interaction of the secondaries an `extensive air shower' (EAS)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Heck

Cosmic ray data collected by the KASCADE air shower experiment are competitive in terms of quality and statistics with those of modern observatories. We present a novel mass composition analysis based on archival data acquired from 1998 to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 D. Kostunin , I. Plokhikh , M. Ahlers , V. Tokareva , V. Lenok , P. Bezyazeekov , S. Golovachev , V. Sotnikov , R. Mullyadzhanov , E. Sotnikova

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…

The detection of extensive air showers (EAS) induced by cosmic rays via radio signals has undergone significant advancements in the last two decades. Numerous ultra-high energy cosmic ray experiments routinely capture radio pulses in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Carlo S. Cruz Sanchez , Patricia M. Hansen , Matias Tueros , Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Diego G. Melo

KASCADE-Grande was dedicated to measuring the energy spectrum and mass composition of cosmic rays in the energy range of 10 PeV to 1 EeV. We observed a knee-like structure in the heavy mass component at around 100 PeV and an ankle-like…

During the 1960s, a small but vibrant community of cosmic ray physicists, pioneered novel optical methods of detecting extensive air showers (EAS) in the Earth's atmosphere with the prime objective of searching for point sources of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-14 David J. Fegan

The Auger experiment was designed to study the high-energy cosmic rays by measuring the properties of the showers produced in the atmosphere. The Southern Auger Observatory has taken data since January 2004. Results on mass composition,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Giorgio Matthiae

Measurements of cosmic ray particles at energies above E = 5 x 10^{14} eV are performed by large area ground based air shower experiments. Only they provide the collection power required for obtaining sufficient statistics at the low flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Karl-Heinz Kampert

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…

Cosmic rays extensive air showers (EAS) are associated with transient radio emission, which could provide an efficient new detection method of high energy cosmic rays, combining a calorimetric measurement with a high duty cycle. The…

Analyzing simulated extensive air shower (EAS) events generated with the Monte Carlo code CORSIKA, this paper critically studies the characteristics of lateral distribution of electrons in EAS around the knee energy region of the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Rajat K. Dey , Sandip Dam

The High School Project on Astrophysics Research with Cosmics (HiSPARC) is a large extensive air shower (EAS) array with detection stations throughout the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark and Namibia. HiSPARC is a collaboration of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 K. van Dam , B. van Eijk , D. B. R. A. Fokkema , J. W. van Holten , A. P. L. S. de Laat , N. G. Schultheiss , J. J. M. Steijger , J. C. Verkooijen

Measurements of electron, muon, and hadron lateral distributions of extensive air showers as recorded by the KASCADE experiment are presented. The data cover the energy range from about 5x10^14 eV up to almost 10^17 eV and extend from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Antoni

It is shown that Extensive Air Shower (EAS) longitudinal development has a critical point where an equilibrium between the main hadronic component and the secondary electromagnetic one exhibits a brake. This results in a change of slope in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-17 Yuri V. Stenkin