Muon density measurements with the KASCADE central detector

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 373-386

  Antoni, T ^a   Apel, W D ^a   Badea, F ^b   Bekk, K ^a   Bernlohr K ^a   Blumer H ^a,d   Bollmann, E ^a   Bozdog, H ^a   Brancus, I M ^a   Buttner C ^a   Chilingarian, A ^c   Daumiller, K ^d   Doll, P ^a   Engler, J ^a   Fessler F ^a   Gils, H J ^a   Glasstetter, R ^d   Haeusler, R ^a   Haungs, A ^a   Heck, D ^a   Holst, T ^a   Horandel J R ^d   Kampert, K H ^a,d   Kempa, J ^e   Klages, H O ^a   Knapp, J ^d   Kohler K U ^a   Maier, G ^a   Mathes, H J ^a   Mayer, H J ^a   Milke, J ^a   Muller M ^a   Oehlschlager J ^a   Petcu, M ^a   Rebel, H ^a   Risse, M ^a   Roth, M ^a   Schatz, G ^a   Scholz, J ^c   Sokhoyan, S H ^a   Thouw, T ^a   Ulrich, H ^f   Vulpescu, B ^a   Weber, J H ^a   Wentz, J ^a   Wochele, J ^a   Zabierowski, J ^a   Zagromski, S ^a   more..

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^c YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^f SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Air shower; Cosmic rays; Energy spectrum; Mass composition; Muon component

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040650817     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0927-6505(01)00120-7     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. B. Wiebel-Sooth, P.L. Biermann, H. Meyer, Astron. Astrophys. 330 (1998) 389.
2. N.N. Kalmykov, G.B. Khristiansen, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 21 (1995) 1279.
3. G.V. Kulikov, G.B. Khristiansen, Sov. Phys. JETP 35 (8) (1959) 441.
4. M.A.K. Glasmacher et al., Astropart. Phys. 10 (1999) 291.
5. K. Asakimori et al., Proc. 23th ICRC, vol. 2, Calgary, 1993, p. 25.
6. M. Nagano et al., J. Phys. G: Nucl. Phys. 10 (1984) 1295.
7. T. Antoni et al. - KASCADE Collaboration, A non-parametric approach to infer the energy spectrum and the mass composition of cosmic rays, Astropart. Phys., in press.
8. H.O. Klages et al., Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 52B (1997) 92.
9. J. Engler et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 427 (1999) 528.
10. H. Bozdog et al., The detector system for measurement of multiple cosmic muons in the central detector of KASCADE, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A, in press.
11. T. Antoni et al. - KASCADE Collaboration, Astropart. Phys. 14 (2001) 245.
12. S.H. Sokhoyan et al., Proc. of the Workshop ANI 98, in: A.A. Chillingarian, H. Rebel, M. Roth, M.Z. Zazyan (Eds.), Report FZKA 6215, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 1998, p. 55.
13. P.R. Blake, W.F. Nash, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 24 (1998) 217.
14. T. Antoni et al. - KASCADE Collaboration, Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 75A (1999) 234.
15. D. Heck et al., Report FZKA 6019, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 1998.
16. N.N. Kalmykov, S.S. Ostapchenko, A.I. Pavlov, Nucl. Phys. B Proc. Suppl. 52B (1997) 17.
17. H. Fesefeldt, Report PITHA-85/02, RWTH Aachen, 1985.
18. W.R. Nelson, H. Hirayama, D.W.O. Rogers, Report SLAC 265, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1985.
19. Application Software Group, GEANT- Detector Description and Simulation Tool, 1993, CERN Long Writeups W5015.
20. K. Werner, Phys. Rep. 232 (1993) 87.
21. J. Wentz et al., Proc. 26th ICRC, Salt Lake City, vol. 2, 1999, p. 92.
22. M. Aglietta et al., Astropart. Phys. 10 (1991) 1.
23. R. Glasstetter et al. - KASCADE Collaboration, Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 75A (1999) 238.
24. K.-H. Kampert et al. - KASCADE Collaboration, Proc. 26th ICRC, Salt Lake City, vol. 3, 1999, p. 159.
25. A. Haungs et al. - KASCADE Collaboration, Report FZKA 6263, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 1999.