The Air-Shower Experiment KASCADE-Grande

✍ Scribed by A. Haungs; W.D. Apel; J.C. Arteaga; F. Badea; K. Bekk; M. Bertaina; J. Blümer; H. Bozdog; I.M. Brancus; M. Brüggemann; 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; D. Heck; J.R. Hörandel; T. Huege; P.G. Isar; K.-H. Kampert; D. Kang; D. Kickelbick; H.O. Klages; Y. Kolotaev; P. Łuczak; H.J. Mathes; H.J. Mayer; J. Milke; B. Mitrica; C. Morello; G. Navarra; S. Nehls; J. Oehlschläger; S. Ostapchenko; S. Over; M. Petcu; T. Pierog; H. Rebel; M. Roth; H. Schieler; F. Schröder; O. Sima; M. Stümpert; G. Toma; G. Trinchero; H. Ulrich; W. Walkowiak; A. Weindl; J. Wochele; M. Wommer; J. Zabierowski

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 621 KB
• Volume: 196
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2009.09.012

✦ Synopsis

KASCADE-Grande is an extensive air shower experiment at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany. Main parts of the experiment are the Grande array spread over an area of 700 × 700 m 2 , the original KASCADE array covering 200 × 200 m 2 with unshielded and shielded detectors, and additional muon tracking devices. This multidetector system allows to investigate the energy spectrum, composition, and anisotropies of cosmic rays in the energy range up to 1 EeV. An overview on the performance of the apparatus and first results will be given.