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EAS Signatures of the Mass Composition of High-Energy Cosmic Rays

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Nuclei Far from Stability and Astrophysics

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((NAII,volume 17))

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The elemental composition and the energy spectra of the different kinds of primaries of high energy cosmic rays are only accessible by indirect measurements, i.e. by analyzing the appearance of extended air showers (EAS). This lecture gives an overview on mass sensitive observables in EAS measurements with earth-bound detector setups. Various different methods for the reconstruction of the chemical composition from observations in the KASCADE and other experiments are compared.

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  1. Institut für Kernphysik, KASCADE collaboration, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Postfach 3640, D-76021, Karlsruhe, Germany

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  1. National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania

    Dorin N. Poenaru

  2. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Heinigerd Rebel  & Jürgen Wentz  & 

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Haungs, A. (2001). EAS Signatures of the Mass Composition of High-Energy Cosmic Rays. In: Poenaru, D.N., Rebel, H., Wentz, J. (eds) Nuclei Far from Stability and Astrophysics. NATO Science Series, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0708-5_32

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