Speaker
Dr
Carlo Gustavino
(INFN-Sezione di Roma)
Description
LUNA (Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics) is the only ion accelerator in the world operating underground. The measurements are presently performed with the 400 kV machine operating at the "Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso" (LNGS). This accelerator is mainly devoted to study reaction that regulate the hydrogen burning in stars and in the abundance of lighth isotopes produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.
In the next future, the LNGS will host the LUNA-MV accelerator. The program of this new accelerator is mainly focused on the study of key reactions for late stellar evolution: s-process abundances, Helium burning, Carbon burning. In this presentation the present and future activity of LUNA is discussed, as well as the implications on astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics.
Primary author
Dr
Carlo Gustavino
(INFN-Sezione di Roma)
