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ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH
Volume 53, Issue 10, Pages 1456-1469Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2013.05.008
Keywords
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays; All-particle energy spectrum; Extensive air showers; Mass composition; Hadronic interaction models; KASCADE-Grande
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- BMBF of Germany
- MIUR
- INAF of Italy
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- Romanian Authority for Scientific Research EFISCDI PNII-IDEI [271/2011, 17/2011]
- CONACyT
- DAA-Proalmex program
- Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics - HAP - Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association, Germany
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Previous results obtained by KASCADE-Grande using the QGSjetII-02 hadronic interaction model have shown that the energy spectrum of cosmic rays between 10(16) eV and 10(18) eV exhibits a significant hardening at approximately 2 x 10(16) eV and a slight but statistically significant steepening close to 10(17) Moreover, the analysis with QGSjetII-02 suggests that the break observed around 10(17) eV is caused by the heavy component of primary cosmic rays. In this paper, we report on the results of similar analyses performed using the SIBYLL 2.1 and EPOS 1.99 hadronic interaction models to interpret the data. The present results confirm qualitatively the previous findings. However, the intensity of the all-particle spectrum, the positions of the hardening and steepening of the spectrum, as well as the relative abundance of the heavy and light mass groups depend on the hadronic interaction model used to interpret the data. (C) 2013 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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