Confronting the EPOS-LHC model predictions on the charged particle and muon attenuation lengths of EAS with the measurements of the KASCADE-Grande observatory
Journal
Date Issued
2015
Author(s)
Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C.
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Apel, W. D.
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Bekk, K.
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Bertaina, M.
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Blümer, J.
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Bozdog, H.
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Brancus, I. M.
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Cantoni, E.
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Chiavassa, A.
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Cossavella, F.
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Daumiller, K.
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de Souza, V.
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Di Pierro, F.
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Doll, P.
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Engel, R.
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Engler, J.
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Fuchs, B.
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Fuhrmann, D.
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Gherghel-Lascu, A.
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Gils, H. J.
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Glasstetter, R.
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Grupen, C.
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Haungs, A.
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Heck, D.
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Hörandel, J. R.
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Huber, D.
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Huege, T.
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Kampert, K. -H.
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Kang, D.
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Klages, H. O.
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Link, K.
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Łuczak, P.
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Mathes, H. J.
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Mayer, H. J.
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Milke, J.
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Mitrica, B.
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Morello, Carlo
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Oehlschläger, J.
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Ostapchenko, S.
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Palmieri, N.
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Petcu, M.
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Pierog, T.
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Rebel, H.
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Roth, M.
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Schieler, H.
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Schoo, S.
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Schröder, F. G.
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Sima, O.
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Toma, G.
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Ulrich, H.
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Weindl, A.
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Wochele, J.
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Zabierowski, J.
Abstract
KASCADE-Grande was an air-shower experiment designed to study cosmic rays between 1016 and 1018 eV. The instrument was located at the site of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany at an altitude of 110 m a.s.l. and covered an area of 0.5 km2. KASCADE-Grande consisted of several detector systems dedicated to measure different components of the EAS generated by the primary cosmic rays, i.e., the muon and the electron contents of the air-shower. With such a number of EAS observables and the precision of the measurements, the KASCADE-Grande data can be used to not only study in detail the properties of cosmic rays but also to test the predictions of hadronic-interaction models. In this work, in particular, the attenuation lengths of the muon number and the charged number of particles of EAS in the atmosphere were extracted from the KASCADE-Grande data and the results were compared with the predictions of the new EPOS-LHC hadronic-interaction model.
Coverage
ISVHECRI 2014 - 18th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions
All editors
Berge, D.; de Roeck, A.; Mangano, M.; Pattison, B.
Volume
99
Start page
12002
Conferenece
ISVHECRI 2014 - 18th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions
Conferenece place
CERN, Geneva, Switzwerland
Conferenece date
August 18-22, 2014
Issn Identifier
2101-6275
Ads BibCode
2015EPJWC..9912002A
Rights
open.access
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