Published October 2006
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Journal article
Investigating the 2nd knee: The KASCADE-Grande experiment
Creators
- 1. Institut fur Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)
Description
Recent results from the multi-detector set-up KASCADE on measurements of cosmic rays in the energy range of the so called 'first' knee (at ∼ 3 PeV) indicate a distinct knee in the energy spectra of light primary cosmic rays and an increasing dominance of heavy ones towards higher energies. This leads to the expectation of knee-like features of the heavy primaries at around 100 PeV. To investigate this energy region KASCADE has recently been extended by a factor 10 in area to the new experiment KASCADE-Grande. Main results of KASCADE as well as set-up, capabilities, and status of KASCADE-Grande are presented
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1742-6596/47/238/jpconf6_47_029.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online) (ISSN 1742-6596) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 47
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 238-247
- ISSN
- 1742-6596
Conference
- Title
- Workshop on physics at the end of the galactic cosmic ray spectrum
- Dates
- 26-30 Apr 2005
- Place
- Aspen, CO (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38033838
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMIC RAY DETECTION; COSMIC RAY PROPAGATION; ENERGY SPECTRA; PEV RANGE; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMIC RADIATION; DETECTION; ENERGY RANGE; IONIZING RADIATIONS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; SPECTRA