KASCADE-Grande measurements of energy spectra for elemental groups of cosmic rays

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 54-66

  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   Cantoni, E ^c,e,l   Chiavassa, A ^c   Cossavella, F ^a,m   Daumiller, K ^a   De Souza, V ^f   Di Pierro, F ^c   Doll, P ^a   Engel, R ^a   Engler, J ^a   Finger, M ^a   Fuchs, B ^a   Fuhrmann, D ^g   Gils, H J ^a   Glasstetter, R ^g   Grupen, C ^h   Haungs, A ^a   Heck, D ^a   Horandel J R ⁱ   Huber, D ^a   Huege, T ^a   Kampert, K H ^g   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 ^e   Oehlschlager J ^a   Ostapchenko, S ^a,n   Palmieri, N ^a   Petcu, M ^d   Pierog, T ^a   Rebel, H ^a   Roth, M ^a   Schieler, H ^a   Schoo, S ^a   Schroder F G ^a   Sima, O ^k   Toma, G ^d   Trinchero, G C ^e   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 INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

ⁱ RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^j NATIONAL CENTRE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Poland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^l ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

^m MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

ⁿ NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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Author keywords

Cosmic ray energy spectrum and composition; Extensive air showers (EAS); High energy cosmic rays (HECR); KASCADE Grande experiment

Indexed keywords

AIR SHOWER EXPERIMENTS; COSMIC RAY ENERGY SPECTRUM; EXTENSIVE AIR SHOWERS; EXTRAGALACTIC ORIGIN; HADRONIC INTERACTION MODELS; HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS; KASCADE-GRANDE; SCINTILLATOR ARRAYS;

CHARGED PARTICLES; COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; COSMIC RAYS; EXPERIMENTS; SPECTROSCOPY;

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84880152994     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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