Wiki source code of KASCADE - Grande

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1 **KA**rlsruhe **S**hower **C**ore and **A**rray **DE**tector – Grande: **The Research Subject **
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3 KASCADE – Grande was an extensive air shower experiment array to study the cosmic ray primary composition and the hadronic interactions in the energy range E,,0,,=10^^16^^-10^^18^^eV.  
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5 The experiment was situated on site of the former Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT, 49,1°N, 8,4°O) at 110m a.s.l, corresponding to an average athmospheric depth of 1022g/cm^^2^^. It measured simultaneously the electromagnetic, muonic and hadronic componenets of extensive air showers of cosmic rays.