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most citedKASCADE-Grande measurements of energy spectra for elemental groups of cosmic rays

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astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

LOPES 3D -- studies on the benefits of EAS-radio measurements with vertically aligned antennas

D. Huber, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez +54

The LOPES experiment was a radio interferometer built at the existing air shower array KASCADE-Grande in Karlsruhe, Germany. The last configuration of LOPES was called LOPES 3D and…

astro-ph.HE2021

Results from the KASCADE-Grande Data Analysis

D. Kang, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +45

KASCADE-Grande and its original array of KASCADE were dedicated to measure individual air showers of cosmic rays with great detail in the primary energy range of 100 TeV up to 1 Ee…

astro-ph.HE2019

Latest results from the KASCADE-Grande data analysis

D. Kang, A. Haungs, W. D. Apel +45

Over the past 20 years, KASCADE and its extension KASCADE-Grande were dedicated to measure high-energy cosmic rays with primary energies of 100 TeV to 1 EeV. The data accumulation…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 28 cited

The KASCADE Cosmic-ray Data Centre KCDC: Granting Open Access to Astroparticle Physics Research Data

A. Haungs, D. Kang, S. Schoo +49

The `KASCADE Cosmic ray Data Centre' is a web portal (\url{https://kcdc.ikp.kit.edu}), where the data of the astroparticle physics experiment KASCADE-Grande are made available for…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 57 cited

Probing the evolution of the EAS muon content in the atmosphere with KASCADE-Grande

Grande Collaboration, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +47

The evolution of the muon content of very high energy air showers (EAS) in the atmosphere is investigated with data of the KASCADE-Grande observatory. For this purpose, the muon at…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1 cited

Recent results from the KASCADE-Grande cosmic-ray experiment --- Test of hadronic interaction models with air-shower data

Jörg R. Hörandel, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +49

Cosmic rays provide an unique approach to study hadronic interactions at high energies in the kinematic forward direction. The KASCADE air shower experiment was the first to conduc…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 65 cited

KASCADE-Grande Limits on the Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Flux between 100 TeV and 1 EeV

Grande Collaboration, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +48

KASCADE and KASCADE-Grande were multi-detector installations to measure individual air showers of cosmic rays at ultra-high energy. Based on data sets measured by KASCADE and KASCA…

astro-ph.IM2015

Investigation of the radio wavefront of air showers with LOPES measurements and CoREAS simulations (ARENA 2014)

F. G. Schröder, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez +54

We investigated the radio wavefront of cosmic-ray air showers with LOPES measurements and CoREAS simulations: the wavefront is of approximately hyperbolic shape and its steepness i…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 5 cited

KCDC - The KASCADE Cosmic-ray Data Centre

A. Haungs, J. Bluemer, B. Fuchs +51

KCDC, the KASCADE Cosmic-ray Data Centre, is a web portal, where data of astroparticle physics experiments will be made available for the interested public. The KASCADE experiment,…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 45 cited

First Experimental Characterization of Microwave Emission from Cosmic Ray Air Showers

R. Smida, F. Werner, R. Engel +55

We report the first direct measurement of the overall characteristics of microwave radio emission from extensive air showers. Using a trigger provided by the KASCADE-Grande air sho…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 79 cited

Reconstruction of the energy and depth of maximum of cosmic-ray air-showers from LOPES radio measurements

W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez, L. Bähren +53

LOPES is a digital radio interferometer located at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, which measures radio emission from extensive air showers at MHz frequencies in…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 3 cited

Energy spectra of KASCADE-Grande based on shower size measurements and different hadronic interaction models

D. Kang, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez +54

KASCADE-Grande is dedicated for investigations of cosmic-ray air showers in the primary energy range from 10 PeV to 1 EeV. The multi-detector system allows us to reconstruct charge…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 4 cited

Investigation on the energy and mass composition of cosmic rays using LOPES radio data

N. Palmieri, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga +52

The sensitivity to the mass composition as well as the reconstruction of the energy of the primary particle are explored here by leveraging the features of the radio lateral distri…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 22 cited

Comparing LOPES measurements of air-shower radio emission with REAS 3.11 and CoREAS simulations

W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga, L. Bähren +52

Cosmic ray air showers emit radio pulses at MHz frequencies, which can be measured with radio antenna arrays - like LOPES at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. To im…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 5 cited

Study of the muon content of very high-energy EAS measured with the KASCADE-Grande observatory

J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez, W. D. Apel, K. Bekk +54

The KASCADE-Grande detector is an air-shower array devoted to the study of primary cosmic rays with very high-energies (E = 10^{16} - 10^{18} eV). The instrument is composed of dif…

astro-ph.IM2013

Comparison of LOPES data and CoREAS simulations using a full detector simulation (ICRC2013)

K. Link, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-VelÁzquez +53

The LOPES experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, has been measuring radio emission of air showers for almost 10 years. For a better understanding of the emis…

astro-ph.IM2013

Vectorial Radio Interferometry with LOPES 3D

D. Huber, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga +53

One successful detection technique for high-energy cosmic rays is based on the radio signal emitted by the charged particles in an air shower. The LOPES experiment at Karlsruhe Ins…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 6 cited

KASCADE-Grande measurements of energy spectra for elemental groups of cosmic rays

D. Fuhrmann, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez +54

The KASCADE-Grande experiment, located at KIT-Karlsruhe, Germany, consists of a large scintillator array for measurements of charged particles, N_ch, and of an array of shielded sc…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 2 cited

The <lnA> study in the primary energy range 10^{16} - 10^{17} eV with the Muon Tracking Detector in the KASCADE-Grande experiment

P. Łuczak, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +53

The KASCADE-Grande Muon Tracking Detector enables with high accuracy the measurement of directions of EAS muons with energy above 0.8 GeV and up to 700 m distance from the shower c…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 1 cited

The energy-spectrum of light primaries in the range from 10^{16.6} to 10^{18.2} eV

S. Schoo, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez +54

Data of the Grande extension of the KASCADE experiment allows us to study extensive air showers induced by primary cosmic rays with energies above 10^{16} eV. The energy of an even…

astro-ph.HE2013

High-energy cosmic rays measured with KASCADE-Grande

A. Haungs, W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez +54

The detection of high-energy cosmic rays above a few hundred TeV is realized by the observation of extensive air-showers. By using the multi-detector setup of KASCADE-Grande, energ…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 7 cited

Reconstructing energy and Xmax of cosmic ray air showers using the radio lateral distribution measured with LOPES

W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga, L. Bähren +53

The LOPES experiment, a digital radio interferometer located at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), obtained remarkable results for the detection of radio emission from extens…

astro-ph.IM2013

Mass sensitivity in the radio lateral distribution function

W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga, L. Bähren +56

Measuring the mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays is one of the main tasks in the cosmic rays field. Here we are exploring the composition signature in the coherent e…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 4 cited

Observation of Polarised Microwave Emission from Cosmic Ray Air Showers

R. Smida, F. Werner, R. Engel +55

We report on the first direct measurement of the basic features of microwave radio emission from extensive air showers. Using a trigger provided by the KASCADE-Grande air shower ar…