Status of the KASCADE-Grande experiment

✍ Scribed by K.-H. Kampert; T. Antoni; W.D. Apel; F. Badea; K. Bekk; A. Bercuci; M. Bertaina; H. Blümer; H. Bozdog; I.M. Brancus; C. Bütner; A. Chiavassa; K. Daumiller; P. Doll; J. Engler; F. Feβler; P.L. Ghia; H.J. Gils; R. Glasstetter; R. Haeusler; A. Haungs; D. Heck; J.R. Hörandel; A. Iwan; H.O. Klages; G. Maier; H.J. Mathes; H.J. Mayer; D. Martello; J. Milke; C. Morello; M. Müller; G. Navarra; R. Obenland; J. Oehlschläger; S. Ostapchenko; M. Petcu; H. Rebel; M. Roth; H. Schieler; J. Scholz; T. Thouw; G.C. Trinchero; H. Ulrich; R. Ulrich; J.H. Weber; A. Weindl; J. Wentz; J. Wochele; J. Zabierowski; S. Zagromski

• Book ID: 104354963
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 480 KB
• Volume: 122
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(03)80433-4

✦ Synopsis

The status and capabilities of the KASCADEGrande extensive air shower experiment are presented. The installation is located at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and comprises a large collecting area (0.5 km2) electromagnetic array (Grande) operated jointly with the existing KASCADE detectors. KASCADEGrande will cover the primary energy range 1016 eV < EO < 10" eV overlapping with KASCADE around lOI eV, thus providing continuous information on the primary energy and mass of cosmic rays from 3 * lOI eV up to 10" eV. The major goal of the measurements is the unambiguous observation of the"iron knee" expected in the cosmic ray spectrum at ELe z 1017 eV.