Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

Analysis of inclined air showers with the KASCADE-Grande experiment (pdf)

KASCADE-Grande is a ground air-shower experiment designed to study the energy region of 10^16-10^18 eV of the primary cosmic ray spectrum. The detector is composed of an array of 37 scintillator detectors, which covers a surface of roughly 0.5 km^2. The Grande array operates in combination with the original KASCADE experiment, in particular with the array of muon and e/gamma detectors. This allows to disentangle the electron and muon components of the detected air shower, which in turn, is comprised as an important step for ulterior composition analysis of the primary spectrum. In this talk, first, I will give a brief introduction to the KASCADE-Grande experiment and then, I will present part of my work in KASCADE-Grande regarding to both the reconstruction of the arrival direction and the analysis of the muon content of inclined air showers, i.e., showers observed with zenith angles above 40 degrees.