Published January 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

The longitudinal development of showers induced by high-energy hadrons in an iron-sampling calorimeter

  • 1. Institut fuer Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • 2. Institut fuer Experimentelle Kernphysik, Universitaet Karlsruhe, 76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)

Description

Occasionally cosmic-ray induced air showers result in single, unaccompanied hadrons at ground level. Such events are investigated with the 300 m2 hadron calorimeter of the KASCADE-Grande experiment. It is an iron sampling calorimeter with a depth of 11 hadronic interaction lengths read out by warm-liquid ionization chambers. The longitudinal shower development is discussed as function of energy up to 30 TeV and the results are compared with simulations using the GEANT/FLUKA code. In addition, results of test measurements at a secondary particle beam of the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN up to 350 GeV are discussed

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2005.07.051;
PII
S0920-5632(05)00948-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
151
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 325-328
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
13. international symposium on very high energy cosmic ray interactions
Dates
6-12 Sep 2004
Place
Pylos (Greece)

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Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.