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Review

Detectors and Shieldings: Past and Future at LUNA

by
Chemseddine Ananna
1,
Lucia Barbieri
2,
Axel Boeltzig
3,
Matteo Campostrini
4,
Fausto Casaburo
5,
Alessandro Compagnucci
6,
Laszlo Csedreki
7,
Riccardo Maria Gesue
6,
Jordan Marsh
2,
Daniela Mercogliano
1,
Denise Piatti
8,*,
Duncan Robb
2,
Ragandeep Singh Sidhu
2 and
Jakub Skowronski
8
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
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Universe 2024, 10(5), 228; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10050228
Submission received: 22 March 2024 / Revised: 17 April 2024 / Accepted: 7 May 2024 / Published: 20 May 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Outcomes and Future Challenges in Nuclear Astrophysics)
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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.
Keywords: underground nuclear astrophysics; stellar nucleosynthesis; γ, α and neutron detectors; passive shieldings underground nuclear astrophysics; stellar nucleosynthesis; γ, α and neutron detectors; passive shieldings

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Ananna, C.; Barbieri, L.; Boeltzig, A.; Campostrini, M.; Casaburo, F.; Compagnucci, A.; Csedreki, L.; Gesue, R.M.; Marsh, J.; Mercogliano, D.; et al. Detectors and Shieldings: Past and Future at LUNA. Universe 2024, 10, 228. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10050228

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Ananna C, Barbieri L, Boeltzig A, Campostrini M, Casaburo F, Compagnucci A, Csedreki L, Gesue RM, Marsh J, Mercogliano D, et al. Detectors and Shieldings: Past and Future at LUNA. Universe. 2024; 10(5):228. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10050228

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Ananna, Chemseddine, Lucia Barbieri, Axel Boeltzig, Matteo Campostrini, Fausto Casaburo, Alessandro Compagnucci, Laszlo Csedreki, Riccardo Maria Gesue, Jordan Marsh, Daniela Mercogliano, and et al. 2024. "Detectors and Shieldings: Past and Future at LUNA" Universe 10, no. 5: 228. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10050228

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Ananna, C., Barbieri, L., Boeltzig, A., Campostrini, M., Casaburo, F., Compagnucci, A., Csedreki, L., Gesue, R. M., Marsh, J., Mercogliano, D., Piatti, D., Robb, D., Sidhu, R. S., & Skowronski, J. (2024). Detectors and Shieldings: Past and Future at LUNA. Universe, 10(5), 228. https://doi.org/10.3390/universe10050228

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