Air Shower Measurements in the Primary Energy Range from PeV to EeV

Abstract

Recent results of advanced experiments with sophisticated measurements of cosmic rays in the energy range of the so called knee at a few 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 in detail this energy region several new experiments are or will be devised.

4 pages; submitted to Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on TeV Astrophysics, Aug 28-31, 2006, Madison, WI

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