Speaker
Heide Costantini
(U Genova/Notre Dame U)
Description
Cross section measurements for quiescent stellar H and He burning are hampered
mainly by extremely low counting rate and cosmic background. Some of the main
reactions of H-burning phase have been measured at the LUNA facility
(Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics) taking advantage of the very
low background environment of the Underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory in
Italy. An overview of the adopted experimental techniques will be given together
with the latest results on the 14N(p,)15O reaction and the status of the
ongoing experiments. Furthermore a brief summary of possible
future experimental methods coupling low background environment and detector
techniques will be presented.
Author
Heide Costantini
(U Genova/Notre Dame U)
