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Detectors and Shieldings: Past and Future at LUNA

Published:2024-05-20 Issue:5 Volume:10 Page:228
ISSN:2218-1997
Container-title:Universe
language:en
Short-container-title:Universe

Author:

Ananna Chemseddine¹^ORCID,Barbieri Lucia²^ORCID,Boeltzig Axel³^ORCID,Campostrini Matteo⁴^ORCID,Casaburo Fausto⁵^ORCID,Compagnucci Alessandro⁶^ORCID,Csedreki Laszlo⁷^ORCID,Gesue Riccardo Maria⁶^ORCID,Marsh Jordan²^ORCID,Mercogliano Daniela¹^ORCID,Piatti Denise⁸^ORCID,Robb Duncan²^ORCID,Sidhu Ragandeep Singh²^ORCID,Skowronski Jakub⁸^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II and INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Strada Comunale Cinthia, 80126 Napoli, Italy

2. SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK

3. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstr. 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany

4. INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Via dell’Università 2, 35020 Legnaro, Italy

5. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Genova and INFN, Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy

6. Gran Sasso Science Institute, INFN, Viale Francesco Crispi 7, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy

7. HUN-REN Institute for Nuclear Research (HUN-REN ATOMKI), P.O. Box 51, H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary

8. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “G. Galilei”, Università degli Studi di Padova and INFN, Sezione di Padova, Via Francesco Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy

Abstract

Nuclear reactions are responsible for the chemical evolution of stars, galaxies and the Universe. Unfortunately, at temperatures of interest for nuclear astrophysics, the cross-sections of the thermonuclear reactions are in the pico- femto-barn range and thus measuring them in the laboratory is extremely challenging. In this framework, major steps forward were made with the advent of underground nuclear astrophysics, pioneered by the Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics (LUNA). The cosmic background reduction by several orders of magnitude obtained at LUNA, however, needs to be combined with high-performance detectors and dedicated shieldings to obtain the required sensitivity. In the present paper, we report on the recent and future detector-shielding designs at LUNA.

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INFN

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MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/10/5/228/pdf

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