KASCADE

Not to be confused with Kaskade or Cascada.

KASCADE is a European physics experiment started in 1996 at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany, an extensive air shower experiment array to study the cosmic ray primary composition and the hadronic interactions in the energy range of 10¹⁶–10¹⁸ eV, measuring simultaneously the electronic, muonic and hadronic components.

KASCADE-Grande is a further extension of the previous project by reassembling 37 detectors of the former EAS-TOP experiment running between 1987 and 2000 at Campo Imperatore, Gran Sasso Laboratories, Italy.

The experiment uses a CORSIKA simulation program.

Co-located with KASCADE-Grande is the LOPES experiment. LOPES consists of radio antennas and measures the radio emission of extensive air showers.

Participants

• Institut für Kernphysik and Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik of Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany
• Diparimento di Fisica Generale dell' Universita and Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario of Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica Torino, Italy
• Universität Siegen, Germany
• Universität Wuppertal, Germany
• Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Lodz, Poland
• Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania

External links

• Official website of KASCADE
• Dissecting the knee — Air shower measurements with KASCADEPDF
• LOPES experiment