30TH INTERNATIONAL COSMIC RAY CONFERENCE Muon Production Height in the Air-Shower Experiment KASCADE-Grande
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A large area (128m) Muon Tracking Detector (MTD), located within the KASCADE experiment, has been built with the aim to identify muons (Eμ >0.8GeV) and their directions in extensive air showers by track measurements under more than 18 r.l. shielding. The orientation of the muon track with respect to the shower axis is expressed in terms of the radialand tangential angles. By means of triangulation the muon production height Hμ is determined. By means of Hμ, transition from light to heavy cosmic ray primary particle with increasing shower energy Eo from 1-10 PeV is observed.
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30th International Cosmic Ray Conference
KASCADE-Grande is a multi detector setup for the investigation of extensive air showers in the 10 − 10 eV energy range. With the Grande array it is possible to reconstruct the shower core position, the arrival direction and the total number of charged particles in the shower. The Grande array measures in coincidence with the original KASCADE muon array consisting of 622 m shielded scintillators...
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