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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 87, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.081101
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- BMBF of Germany
- MIUR of Italy
- INAF of Italy
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- Romanian Authority for Scientific Research UEFISCDI (PNII-IDEI) [271/2011, 17/2011]
- CONACyT
- DAAD-Proalmex program
- Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics-HAP
- Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association, Germany
Recent results of the KASCADE-Grande experiment provided evidence for a mild knee-like structure in the all-particle spectrum of cosmic rays at E = 10(16.92 +/- 0.10) eV, which was found to be due to a steepening in the flux of heavy primary particles. The spectrum of the combined components of light and intermediate masses was found to be compatible with a single power law in the energy range from 10(16.3) to 10(18) eV. In this paper, we present an update of this analysis by using data with increased statistics, originating both from a larger data set including more recent measurements and by using a larger fiducial area. In addition, optimized selection criteria for enhancing light primaries are applied. We find a spectral feature for light elements, namely, a hardening at E = 10(17.08 +/- 0.08) eV with a change of the power law index from -3.25 +/- 0.05 to -2.79 +/- 0.08. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.081101
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