Repository details

KASCADE Cosmic Ray Data Centre

Name of repository
KASCADE Cosmic Ray Data Centre
Additional name(s)
  • KCDC
  • Karlsruhe Shower Core and Array Detector
Repository URL
https://kcdc.iap.kit.edu/
Subject(s)
Description
The aim of the project KCDC (KASCADE Cosmic Ray Data Centre) is the installation and establishment of a public data centre for high-energy astroparticle physics based on the data of the KASCADE experiment. KASCADE was a very successful large detector array which recorded data during more than 20 years on site of the KIT-Campus North, Karlsruhe, Germany (formerly Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe) at 49,1°N, 8,4°O; 110m a.s.l. KASCADE collected within its lifetime more than 1.7 billion events of which some 433.000.000 survived all quality cuts. Initially about 160 million events are available here for public usage.
Contact
  • iap-kcdc@lists.kit.edu
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Repository type(s)
  • institutional
Mission statement for designated community
https://kcdc.iap.kit.edu/static/pdf/kcdc_mainpage/kcdc-Manual.pdf
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
  • German
Data and/or service provider
  • data provider
Institution name
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Additional name(s)
  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  • KIT
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:04t3en479
Country
Germany
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Astroteilchenphysik
Additional name(s)
  • IAP
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics
Contact(s)
  • sekretariat@iap.kit.edu
Country
Germany
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (1)

Policy Name
KCDC EULA

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
restricted
Database access restriction type
  • registration

Database licenses (1)

Database License
other

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data licenses (1)

DataLicense
other

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
closed
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://kcdc.iap.kit.edu/lawnorder/
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Remarks

Remarks
The cosmic ray experiment KASCADE has taken data from October, 25th, 1996 until December 2012. The original KASCADE experiment was extended to KASCADE-Grande with an additional detector array on December, 19th, 2003. The combined data taken after this extension will be released in a later stage of KCDC, as well as additional available measured parameters of the individual cosmic ray events already released. KCDC provides initial educational tools for interested students and teachers for a better understanding of the phenomena of cosmic rays. This task will also be gradually extended in coming releases.
Entry date
2013-11-08
Last update
2023-11-17
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re3data.org: KASCADE Cosmic Ray Data Centre; editing status 2023-11-17; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3TS4P last accessed: 2024-04-19