The status and capabilities of the KASCADE-Grande extensive air shower experiment are presented. The installation is located at Forschungszentrum Karisruhe and comprises a large collecting area (0.5 km^2) electromagnetic array (Grande) operated jointly with the existing KASCADE detectors. KASCADE-Grande will cover the primary energy range 10^16-10^18 eV overlapping with KASCADE around 10^16 eV, thus providing continuous information on the primary energy and mass of cosmic rays from 3.10^14 eV up to 10^18 eV. The major goal of the measurements is the unambiguous observation of the iron knee expected in the cosmic ray spectrum at Ek^Fe =10^17 eV.
Status of the KASCADE-Grande experiment
2003
Abstract
The status and capabilities of the KASCADE-Grande extensive air shower experiment are presented. The installation is located at Forschungszentrum Karisruhe and comprises a large collecting area (0.5 km^2) electromagnetic array (Grande) operated jointly with the existing KASCADE detectors. KASCADE-Grande will cover the primary energy range 10^16-10^18 eV overlapping with KASCADE around 10^16 eV, thus providing continuous information on the primary energy and mass of cosmic rays from 3.10^14 eV up to 10^18 eV. The major goal of the measurements is the unambiguous observation of the iron knee expected in the cosmic ray spectrum at Ek^Fe =10^17 eV.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
