Document The Third European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics
M. Busso, R.G. Pizzone, C. Rolfs, C. Spitaleri and A. Tumino (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 27 (2007) 53-65
DOI: 10.1051/eas:2007144
Underground Laboratory Studies of pp and CNO
H. Costantini1, 2 and G. Imbriani31 INFN, Genova, Italy
2 University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
3 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universitá di Napoli "Federico II", and INFN, Napoli, Italy
(Published online: 27 September 2007)
Abstract
Cross section measurements for quiescent stellar H-burning are
hampered mainly by extremely low counting rate and cosmic
background. An effective method is to perform cross section
measurements in an underground laboratory where cosmic ray flux is
reduced by several orders of magnitude. The main features of un
underground nuclear reaction measurement are presented focusing
mainly on accelerators and detectors techniques taking examples
from the LUNA experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in
Italy. Finally some astrophysical consequences of LUNA results are
discussed.
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