https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135207002
Test of hadronic interaction models with the KASCADE-Grande muon data
1 Universidad Michoacana, Instituto de Física y Matemáticas, Morelia, Mexico
2 Institut für Kernphysik, KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
3 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
4 Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
5 National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
6 Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, INAF Torino, Italy
7 Universidade Sãao Paulo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Brasil
8 Fachbereich Physik, Universität Wuppertal, Germany
9 Department of Physics, Siegen University, Germany
10 Dept. of Astrophysics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
11 National Centre for Nuclear Research, Department of Cosmic Ray Physics, Lodz, Poland
12 Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
13 now at: Max-Planck-Institut Physik, München, Germany
14 now at: University of Trondheim, Norway
15 now at: Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologia, INRIM, Torino, Italy
16 now at: University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
a e-mail: arteaga@ifm.umich.mx
KASCADE-Grande is an air-shower observatory devoted for the detection of cosmic rays with energies in the interval of 1014 – 1018 eV, where the Grande array is responsible for the higher energy range. The experiment comprises different detection systems which allow precise measurements of the charged, electron and muon numbers of extensive air-showers (EAS). These data is employed not only to reconstruct the properties of the primary cosmic-ray particle but also to test hadronic interaction models at high energies. In this contribution, predictions of the muon content of EAS from QGSJET II-2, SIBYLL 2.1 and EPOS 1.99 are confronted with the experimental measurements performed with the KASCADE-Grande experiment in order to test the validity of these hadronic models commonly used in EAS simulations.
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