Month: October 2025

2H(p,g)3He Mossa et al. 2020 Direct measurement performed at the Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics (LUNA) of the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Italy). A high-purity deuterium gas target was bombarded with an intense proton beam from the LUNA 400-kilovolt accelerator and the γ-rays from the nuclear reaction were detected with a high-purity germanium detector.… Continue reading 2H(p,g)3He

15N(p,g)16O Caciolli et al. 2011 Direct measurement performed at LUNA covering for the first time the center of mass energy range 70−370 keV, which corresponds to stellar temperatures between 65 × 106 K and 780 × 106 K. This range includes the Gamow-peak energy of explosive H-burning taking place in the external layer of a nova… Continue reading 15N(p,g)16O