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Underground Laboratory Studies of pp and CNO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2007

M. Busso ,
R.G. Pizzone ,
C. Rolfs ,
C. Spitaleri ,
A. Tumino ,
H. Costantini  and
G. Imbriani
H. Costantini
Affiliation:
INFN, Genova, Italy University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
G. Imbriani
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universitá di Napoli "Federico II", and INFN, Napoli, Italy
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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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Research Article
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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 27: The Third European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics , 2007 , pp. 53 - 65
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2007

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