THE KASCADE EXPERIMENT

Authors
SCHATZ G APEL WD BEKK K BOLLMANN E BOZDOG H BRANCUS IM BRENDLE M CAPDEVIELLE JN CHILINGARIAN A DAUMILLER K DOLL P ENGLER J FOLLER M GABRIEL P GILS HJ GLASSTETTER R HAUNGS A HECK D HORANDEL J KAMPERT KH KEIM H KEMPA J KLAGES HO KNAPP J MATHES HJ MAYER HJ MIELKE HH MUHLENBERG D OEHLSCHLAGER J PETCU M RAMER C RAIDT U REBEL H ROTH M SCHIELER H SCHMALZ G SIMONIS HJ THOUW T UNGER J VOLKER G VULPESCU B WAGNER GJ WDOWCZYK J WEBER J WENTZ J WETZEL Y WIBIG T WIEGERT T WOCHELE D WOCHELE J ZABIEROWSKI J ZAGROMSKI S ZEITNITZ B
Citation
G. Schatz et al., THE KASCADE EXPERIMENT, Nuclear physics. B, 1998, pp. 151-160
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Particles & Fields
Journal title
Nuclear physics. B → ACNP
ISSN journal
05503213
Year of publication
1998
Supplement
60B
Pages
151 - 160
Database
ISI
SICI code
0550-3213(1998):<151:>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
A new extensive air shower (EAS) experiment has been installed at the site of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The main aim of the KASCADE [ 1] project is the determination of the chemical composition in the ene rgy range around the knee of the primary cosmic ray spectrum. The main advantage of the new installation is the simultaneous measurement of a large number of observables for each individual event. This is achie ved by the combination of various advanced detection techniques for th e electromagnetic, the muonic, and the hadronic component of the exten sive air showers. Data taking with a large part of the experiment has started at the end of 1995. The estimated accuracy of air shower data is discussed for the various detector components of KASCADE and first preliminary results are presented.