Detectors and Shieldings: Past and Future at LUNA

Chemseddine Ananna; Lucia Barbieri; Axel Boeltzig; Matteo Campostrini; Fausto Casaburo; Alessandro Compagnucci; Laszlo Csedreki; Riccardo Maria Gesue; Jordan Marsh; Daniela Mercogliano; Denise Piatti; Duncan Robb; Ragandeep Singh Sidhu; Jakub Skowronski

doi:10.3390/universe10050228

Detectors and Shieldings: Past and Future at LUNA

Chemseddine Ananna
, Lucia Barbieri
, Axel Boeltzig
, Matteo Campostrini
, Fausto Casaburo
, Alessandro Compagnucci
, Laszlo Csedreki^*
, Riccardo Maria Gesue
, Jordan Marsh
, Daniela Mercogliano
, Denise Piatti^*
, Duncan Robb
, Ragandeep Singh Sidhu
, Jakub Skowronski^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Physics and Astronomy

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	228
Pages (from-to)	1-19
Number of pages	19
Journal	Universe
Volume	10
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10050228
Publication status	Published - 20 May 2024

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underground nuclear astrophysics
stellar nucleosynthesis
y, a and neutron detectors
passive shieldings

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