Study of themuon content of high-energy air showers with KASCADE-Grande

J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez; D. Rivera-Rangel; W.D. Apel; K. Bekk; M. Bertaina; J. Blümer; H. Bozdog; I.M. Brancus; E. Cantoni; A. Chiavassa; F. Cossavella; K. Daumiller; V. de Souza; F. Di Pierro; P. Doll; R. Engel; D. Fuhrmann; A. Gherghel-Lascu; H.J. Gils; R. Glasstetter; C. Grupen; A. Haungs; D. Heck; J.R. Hörandel; T. Huege; K.H. Kampert; D. Kang; H.O. Klages; K. Link; P. Łuczak; H.J. Mathes; H.J. Mayer; J. Milke; B. Mitrica; C. Morello; J. Oehlschläger; S. Ostapchenko; T. Pierog; H. Rebel; M. Roth; H. Schieler; S. Schoo; F.G. Schröder; O. Sima; G. Toma; G.C. Trinchero; H. Ulrich; A. Weindl; J. Wochele; J. Zabierowski

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201920806003

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EPJ Web Conf., 208 (2019) 06003

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Issue		EPJ Web Conf. Volume 208, 2019 ISVHECRI 2018 - XX International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions


Article Number		06003
Number of page(s)		4
Section		Extensive Air Showers
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920806003
Published online		10 May 2019

EPJ Web of Conferences 208, 06003 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920806003

Study of themuon content of high-energy air showers with KASCADE-Grande

J.C. Arteaga-Velázquez¹^*, D. Rivera-Rangel¹^**, W.D. Apel², K. Bekk², M. Bertaina³, J. Blümer²^,4^,14, H. Bozdog², I.M. Brancus⁵, E. Cantoni³^,6^,15, A. Chiavassa³, F. Cossavella⁴^,16, K. Daumiller², V. de Souza⁷, F. Di Pierro³, P. Doll², R. Engel², D. Fuhrmann⁸^,17, A. Gherghel-Lascu⁵, H.J. Gils², R. Glasstetter⁸, C. Grupen⁹, A. Haungs²^,18^***, D. Heck², J.R. Hörandel¹⁰, T. Huege², K.H. Kampert⁸, D. Kang², H.O. Klages², K. Link⁴, P. Łuczak¹¹, H.J. Mathes², H.J. Mayer², J. Milke², B. Mitrica⁵, C. Morello⁶, J. Oehlschläger², S. Ostapchenko¹², T. Pierog², H. Rebel², M. Roth², H. Schieler², S. Schoo², F.G. Schröder², O. Sima¹³, G. Toma⁵, G.C. Trinchero⁶, H. Ulrich², A. Weindl², J. Wochele² and J. Zabierowski¹¹

¹ Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico
² Institut für Kernphysik, KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
³ Departimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
⁴ Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
⁵ Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
⁶ Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, INAF Torino, Italy
⁷ Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Brasil
⁸ Fachbereich Physik, Universität Wuppertal, Germany
⁹ Department of Physics, Siegen University, Germany
¹⁰ Department of Astrophysics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
¹¹ National Centre for Nuclear Research, Department of Astrophysics, Lodz, Poland
¹² Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
¹³ Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
¹⁴ Now: Head of Division V at KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
¹⁵ Now at: Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, INRIM, Torino, Italy
¹⁶ Now at: DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
¹⁷ Now at: University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
¹⁸ Spokesperson KASCADE-Grande

^* e-mail: arteaga@ifm.umich.mx
^** e-mail: drivera@ifm.umich.mx
^*** e-mail: andreas.haungs@kit.edu

Published online: 10 May 2019

Abstract

In this work, we report measurements on the muon content (E_th > 230 MeV) of extensive air showers (EAS) induced by cosmic rays with primary energy from 10 PeV up to 1 EeV performed with the KASCADE-Grande experiment. The measurements are confronted with SIBYLL 2.3. The results are focused on the dependence of the total muon number and the lateral density distribution of muons in EAS on the zenith angle and the total number of charged particles in the shower. We also present updated results of a detailed study of the attenuation length of shower muons, which reveal a deviation between the measured data and the predictions of the post-LHC hadronic interaction models SIBYLL 2.3, QGSJET-II-04 and EPOS-LHC.

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