KASCADE

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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 E₀=10¹⁶-10¹⁸eV measuring simultaneously the electromagnetic, 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.

Experiment uses a CORSIKA simulation program.

[edit] Participants

Institut für Kernphysik of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik of Universität Karlsruhe, 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