30TH INTERNATIONAL COSMIC RAY CONFERENCE The KASCADE-Grande Experiment
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KASCADE-Grande is an extensive air shower experiment at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany. Main parts of the experiment are the Grande array spread over an area of 700 × 700m , the original KASCADE array covering 200 × 200m with unshielded and shielded detectors, and additional muon tracking devices. This multi-detector system allows to investigate the energy spectrum, composition, and anisotropies of cosmic rays in the energy range up to 1 EeV. An overview on the performance of the apparatus, shower reconstruction methods, and first results will be given.
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