LABORATORY-FOR-UNDERGROUND-NUCLEAR-ASTROPHYSICS (LUNA)

Authors
GREIFE U ARPESELLA C BARNES CA BARTOLUCCI F BELLOTTI E BROGGINI C CORVISIERO P FIORENTINI G FUBINI A GERVINO G GORRIS F GUSTAVINO C JUNKER M KAVANAGH RW LANZA A MEZZORANI G PRATI P QUARATI P RODNEY WS ROLFS C SCHULTE WH TRAUTVETTER HP ZAHNOW D
Citation
U. Greife et al., LABORATORY-FOR-UNDERGROUND-NUCLEAR-ASTROPHYSICS (LUNA), Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 350(1-2), 1994, pp. 327-337
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
350
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
327 - 337
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1994)350:1-2<327:L(>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
A compact high-current 50 kV ion accelerator facility including a wind owless gas target system, a beam calorimeter, and detector telescopes in close geometry has been built and tested. The data acquisition and analysis involved a multiparameter system and a Monte Carlo program. T he LUNA facility, presently installed at the Gran Sasso underground la boratory, is a pilot project focused initially on cross section measur ements of the He-3 (He-3, 2p)He-4 reaction within the thermal energy r egion of the sun. To achieve this goal, the experimental sensitivity h as been improved by more than four orders of magnitude over that of pr evious work.