All-particle energy spectrum of KASCADE-Grande based on shower size and different hadronic interaction models

D Kang, WD Apel, JC Arteaga-Velazquez… - Journal of Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
D Kang, WD Apel, JC Arteaga-Velazquez, K Bekk, M Bertaina, J Blümer, H Bozdog…
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2013iopscience.iop.org
KASCADE-Grande is a large detector array for observations of the energy spectrum as well
as the chemical composition of cosmic ray air showers up to primary energies of 1 EeV. The
multi-detector arrangement allows to measure the electromagnetic and muonic components
for individual air showers. In this analysis, the reconstruction of the all-particle energy
spectrum is based on the size spectra of the charged particle component. The energy is
calibrated by using Monte Carlo simulations performed with CORSIKA and high-energy …
Abstract
KASCADE-Grande is a large detector array for observations of the energy spectrum as well as the chemical composition of cosmic ray air showers up to primary energies of 1 EeV. The multi-detector arrangement allows to measure the electromagnetic and muonic components for individual air showers. In this analysis, the reconstruction of the all-particle energy spectrum is based on the size spectra of the charged particle component. The energy is calibrated by using Monte Carlo simulations performed with CORSIKA and high-energy interaction models QGSJet, EPOS and SIBYLL. In all cases FLUKA has been used as low-energy interaction model. In this contribution the resulting spectra by means of different hadronic interaction models will be compared and discussed.
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