A BGO set-up for the direct measurement of the D(p,γ)3He fusion cross section at LUNA

Abstract

Abstract The Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) describes the production of light nuclides occurred during the first minutes of cosmic time. It started with the accumulation of deuterium, whose primordial abundance is sensitive to the universal baryon density and to the amount of relativistic particles. Currently the main source of uncertainty to an accurate theoretical deuterium abundance evaluation is due to the poor knowledge of the D(p, γ)3He cross section at BBN energies. The present work wants to describe one of the two experimental approaches proposed by the LUNA collaboration, whose goal is to measure with unprecedented precision, the reaction cross section in the energy range 30 < Ecm[keV] < 300.