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Energy Spectra of Elemental Groups of Cosmic Rays: Update on the KASCADE Unfolding Analysis
KASCADE Collaboration, W. D. Apel
The KASCADE experiment measures extensive air showers induced by cosmic rays in the energy range around the so-called knee. The data of KASCADE have been used in a composition anal…
Air Shower Measurements with the LOPES Radio Antenna Array
A. Haungs
LOPES is set up at the location of the KASCADE-Grande extensive air shower experiment in Karlsruhe, Germany and aims to measure and investigate radio pulses from Extensive Air Show…
Applying Shower Development Universality to KASCADE Data
W. D. Apel, A. F. Badea, K. Bekk +31
On basis of the theorem of a universal shower development stating that a hadronically generated extensive air shower is completely described by the primary energy, the position of…
Amplified radio emission from cosmic ray air showers in thunderstorms
Stijn Buitink
Cosmic ray air showers produce radio emission, consisting in large part of geosynchrotron emission. Since the radiation mechanism is based on particle acceleration, the atmospheric…
Radio emission of highly inclined cosmic ray air showers measured with LOPES
Jelena Petrovic LOPES collaboration
LOPES-10 (the first phase of LOPES, consisting of 10 antennas) detected a significant number of cosmic ray air showers with a zenith angle larger than 50, and many of the…
Radio Emission in Atmospheric Air Showers: First Measurements with LOPES-30
P. G. Isar, S. Nehls, LOPES Collaboration
When Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays interact with particles in the Earth's atmosphere, they produce a shower of secondary particles propagating toward the ground. LOPES-30 is an abs…
Absolute calibration of the LOPES antenna system
S. Nehls, LOPES Collaboration
Radio emission in extensive air showers arises from an interaction with the geomagnetic field and is subject of theoretical studies. This radio emission has advantages for the dete…
Combined LOPES and KASCADE-Grande Data Analysis
A. Haungs, LOPES Collaboration
First analyses of coincident data of the LOPES (LOfar PrototypE Station) radio antennas with the particle air shower experiment KASCADE-Grande show basic correlations in the observ…
Galactic cosmic rays and the knee - Results from the KASCADE experiment
J. R. Hoerandel
Results from the KASCADE air shower experiment investigating the origin of cosmic rays in the energy region from 10^13 to 10^17 eV are presented. Attention is drawn on the investig…
Fluctuations in the EAS radio signal derived with improved Monte Carlo simulations based on CORSIKA
Tim Huege
Cosmic ray air showers are known to emit pulsed radio emission which can be understood as coherent geosynchrotron radiation arising from the deflection of electron-positron pairs i…
Detection and imaging of atmospheric radio flashes from cosmic ray air showers
H. Falcke, W. D. Apel, A. F. Badea
The nature of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies >10^20 eV remains a mystery. They are likely to be of extragalactic origin, but should be absorbed within ~50 Mpc th…
KASCADE: Astrophysical results and tests of hadronic interaction models
A. Haungs, T. Antoni
KASCADE is a multi-detector setup to get redundant information on single air shower basis. The information is used to perform multiparameter analyses to solve the threefold problem…
Cosmic Ray Energy Spectra and Mass Composition at the Knee - Recent Results from KASCADE -
K. -H. Kampert
Recent results from the KASCADE experiment on measurements of cosmic rays in the energy range of the knee are presented. Emphasis is placed on energy spectra of individual mass gro…
Primary Proton Spectrum of Cosmic Rays measured with Single Hadrons
T. Antoni, KASCADE Collaboration
The flux of cosmic-ray induced single hadrons near sea level has been measured with the large hadron calorimeter of the KASCADE experiment. The measurement corroborates former resu…
Search for cosmic-ray point sources with KASCADE
T. Antoni
A survey of the northern hemisphere for astrophysical point sources with continuous emission of high-energy cosmic rays is presented. Around 47 Mio extensive air showers with prima…
Large scale cosmic-ray anisotropy with KASCADE
T. Antoni
The results of an analysis of the large scale anisotropy of cosmic rays in the PeV range are presented. The Rayleigh formalism is applied to the right ascension distribution of ext…
Astrophysics of the Knee in the Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum
A. Haungs et al.
A brief review is given on the astrophysics of cosmic rays in the PeV primary energy range, i.e. the region of the knee.
Dissecting the knee - Air shower measurements with KASCADE
J. R. Hoerandel et al
Recent results of the KASCADE air shower experiment are presented in order to shed some light on the astrophysics of cosmic rays in the region of the knee in the energy spectrum. T…
Measurements of Attenuation and Absorption Lengths with the KASCADE Experiment
T. Antoni
The attenuation of the electron shower size beyond the shower maximum is studied with the KASCADE extensive air shower experiment in the primary energy range of about $10^{14}-10^{…
Features of Muon Arrival Time Distributions of High Energy EAS at Large Distances From the Shower Axis
I. M. Brancus, H. Rebel, A. F. Badea +4
In view of the current efforts to extend the KASCADE experiment (KASCADE-Grande) for observations of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) of primary energies up to 1 EeV, the features of mu…
Status of the KASCADE-Grande Experiment
K. -H. Kampert et al.
The status and capabilities of the KASCADE-Grande extensive air shower experiment are presented. The installation is located at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and comprises a large co…
The information from muon arrival time distributions of high-energy EAS as measured with the KASCADE detector
T. Antoni et al.
Using the facilities of the KASCADE Central Detector EAS muon arrival time distributions, observed with reference to the arrival time of the first locally registered muon, and thei…
Distortions of Experimental Muon Arrival Time Distributions of Extensive Air Showers by the Observation Conditions
R. Haeusler, A. F. Badea, H. Rebel +2
Event-by-event measured arrival time distributions of Extensive Air Shower (EAS) muons are affected and distorted by various interrelated effects which originate from the time reso…
Test of Hadronic Interaction Models in the Forward Region with KASCADE Event Rates
KASCADE Collaboration, T. Antoni, M. Risse
An analysis of muon and hadron rates observed in the central detector of the KASCADE experiment has been carried out. The data are compared to CORSIKA simulations employing the hig…