Kneelike structure in the spectrum of the heavy component of cosmic rays observed with KASCADE-grande

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Apel, W D ^a   Arteaga Velazquez J C ^b   Bekk, K ^a   Bertaina, M ^c   Blumer J ^a   Bozdog, H ^a   Brancus, I M ^d   Buchholz, P ^e   Cantoni, E ^c,f   Chiavassa, A ^c   Cossavella, F ^a,l   Daumiller, K ^a   De Souza, V ^g   Di Pierro, F ^c   Doll, P ^a   Engel, R ^a   Engler, J ^a   Finger, M ^a   Fuhrmann, D ^h   Ghia, P L ^f   Gils, H J ^a   Glasstetter, R ^h   Grupen, C ^e   Haungs, A ^a   Heck, D ^a   Horandel J R ⁱ   Huber, D ^a   Huege, T ^a   Isar, P G ^a,m   Kampert, K H ^h   Kang, D ^a   Klages, H O ^a   Link, K ^a   Luczak P ^j   Ludwig, M ^a   Mathes, H J ^a   Mayer, H J ^a   Melissas, M ^a   Milke, J ^a   Mitrica, B ^d   Morello, C ^f   Navarra, G ^c,n   Oehlschlager J ^a   Ostapchenko, S ^a,n   Over, S ^e   Palmieri, N ^a   Petcu, M ^d   Pierog, T ^a   Rebel, H ^a   Roth, M ^a   Schieler, H ^a   Schroder F G ^a   Sima, O ^k   Toma, G ^d   Trinchero, G C ^f   Ulrich, H ^a   Weindl, A ^a   Wochele, J ^a   Wommer, M ^a   Zabierowski, J ^j   more..

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^f Istituto di Fisica Dello Spazio Interplanetario INAF   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

ⁱ RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^j NATIONAL CENTRE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Poland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^m INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

ⁿ NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY ENERGY SPECTRUM; COSMIC RAY SPECTRA; ENERGY SPECTRA; EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; KASCADE; KASCADE-GRANDE; PRIMARY ENERGIES; PRIMARY MASS; PRIMARY PARTICLES; SECONDARY PARTICLES; SINGLE-EVENTS;

CHARGED PARTICLES; COSMIC RAYS; EXPERIMENTS; SPECTROSCOPY;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 80054846609     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.171104     Document Type: Article

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