KASCADE-Grande:: a conclusive experiment on the knee

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Bertaina, M [1 ]
Antoni, T [1 ]
Apel, WD [1 ]
Badea, F [1 ]
Bekk, K [1 ]
Bercuci, A [1 ]
Blümer, H [1 ]
Bozdog, H [1 ]
Brancus, IM [1 ]
Büttner, C [1 ]
Chiavassa, A [1 ]
Doll, P [1 ]
Engler, J [1 ]
Fessler, F [1 ]
Ghia, PL [1 ]
Gils, HJ [1 ]
Haeusler, R [1 ]
Hafemann, W [1 ]
Haungs, A [1 ]
Heck, D [1 ]
Hörandel, JR [1 ]
Iwan, A [1 ]
Kampert, KH [1 ]
Kempa, J [1 ]
Klages, HO [1 ]
Maier, G [1 ]
Martello, D [1 ]
Mathes, HJ [1 ]
Mayer, HJ [1 ]
Milke, J [1 ]
Morello, C [1 ]
Müller, M [1 ]
Navarra, G [1 ]
Obenland, R [1 ]
Oehlschläger, J [1 ]
Petcu, M [1 ]
Rebel, H [1 ]
Roth, M [1 ]
Schieler, H [1 ]
Scholz, J [1 ]
Thouw, T [1 ]
Trinchero, GC [1 ]
Ulrich, H [1 ]
Vulpescu, B [1 ]
Weber, JH [1 ]
Wentz, J [1 ]
Wochele, J [1 ]
Zabierowski, J [1 ]
Zagromski, S [1 ]
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[1] Univ Turin, Dipartimento Fis Gen, I-10125 Turin, Italy
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We present the status and capabilities of the Extensive Air Shower experiment (KASCADE-Grande) which is being realized at Forschungszentrurn Karlsruhe through a large collecting area (0.5 km(2)) electromagnetic array (Grande) that will operate jointly with the existing KASCADE detectors. KASCADE-Grande will cover the primary energy range 10(16) eV < E-0 < 10(18) eV, overlapping With KASCADE around 10(16) eV, thus providing a continuous information from 3 (.) 10(14) eV to 10(18) eV. The main task of the experiment is the observation of the "iron knee" in the cosmic ray spectrum that is expected at E-k(Fe) approximate to 10(17) eV. This is expected following the increasing mass of the primaries observed between 10(15) and 10(16) eV (knee region for the light component), and the rigidity dependent breaks for the spectra of different primaries from the conventional acceleration models. Its observation will provide a definite proof of the knee structure.
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