Applying Shower Development Universality to KASCADE Data

Details Applying Shower Development Universality to KASCADE Data Applying Shower Development Universality to KASCADE Data

2008-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/0804.4274v1

Astropart.Phys.29:412-419,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

article accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.04.

On basis of the theorem of a universal shower development stating that a hadronically generated extensive air shower is completely described by the primary energy, the position of the shower maximum and a parameter related to the total muon number, the so-called correlation curve method is developed and applied to KASCADE data. Correlation information of the muon and electron content of showers measured by the KASCADE experiment are used for the reconstruction of energy and mass of primary cosmic rays. Systematic uncertainties of the method and the results are discussed in detail. It is shown that by this method general tendencies in spectrum and composition indeed can be revealed, but the absolute normalization in energy and mass scale requires much more detailed simulations.

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