Study of the longitudinal development of extensive air showers with the Muon Tracking Detector in KASCADE-Grande.

1 Jul 2010, 09:00
15m
One West (Fermilab)

One West

Fermilab

PO Box 500 Batavia, IL 60510
Contributed Extensive air shower experiments Extensive air shower experiments

Speaker

Dr Paul Doll (KIT-Karlsruhe)

Description

The Muon Tracking Detector (MTD) in KASCADE-Grande experiment measures with high accuracy muon directions in EAS (Emu>800MeV). In addition, shower directions are determined by the surface detectors with high precision. These two conditions allow to study shower longitudinal development by means of quantities like muon production heights and muon pseudorapidities and lateral distributions of muon densities. Results of such investigations will be shown between 10^15 eV and 10^17 eV, for data and simulations based on CORSIKA with QGSJetII+Fluka2002.4 model combination and the new EPOS version 1.99. The muon pseudorapidity distributions will be studied in the predefined distance range to the shower core and compared to the simulations as well.The pseudorapidity distributions for muons which stem from above 15 km muon production height and which stem very likely from the first interactions are studied in more detail also in the context of geometric scaling in the near LHC energy range. This work was supported in part by the German-Polish bilateral collaboration grant (PPP-DAAD/MNiSW) for the years 2009-2010
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Primary author

Dr Paul Doll (KIT-Karlsruhe)

Co-authors

Prof. Janusz Zabierowski (Soltan Inst. of Nucl.Studies, 90950 Lodz, Polen) Mr Kai Daumiller (KIT-Karlruhe) Mr Pawel Luczak (Soltan Inst. of Nucl.Studies, 90950 Lodz,Polen)

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