Longitudinal development of EAS muon component - comparison of data from the Muon Tracking Detector in KASCADE-Grande with model predictions

Collaboration 1 Institut für Kernphysik, KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 2 Universidad Michoacana, Inst. Física y Matemáticas, Morelia, Mexico 3 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy 4 Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 5 Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania 6 Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, INAF Torino, Italy 7 Universidade São 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 Astrophysics, Łódź, Poland 12 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany 13 Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania