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EAS Publications Series
Volume 27, 2007
The Third European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics
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| Page(s) | 53 - 65 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas:2007144 | |
| Published online | 27 September 2007 | |
M. Busso, R.G. Pizzone, C. Rolfs, C. Spitaleri and A. Tumino (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 27 (2007) 53-65
Underground Laboratory Studies of pp and CNO
1
INFN, Genova, Italy
2
University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
3
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universitá di Napoli "Federico II", and INFN, Napoli, Italy
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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