Silver Moon: the first and the next 25 years of Nuclear Astrophysics at Gran Sasso
E. Majorana lecture hall
LNGS
Underground nuclear astrophysics was born twenty five years ago in the core of Gran Sasso, when LUNA (Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics) started its activity with a 50kV accelerator, implementing the visionary idea of Enrico Bellotti, Gianni Fiorentini and Claus Rolfs.
As a matter of fact, the extremely low laboratory background has allowed for the first time the realization of nuclear physics experiments with very small count rates, down to a couple of events per month. This way, the important reactions responsible for the hydrogen burning in the Sun could be studied down to the relevant stellar energies.
In addition to the solar phase of LUNA, a rich program lasting for several years and devoted to the study of the Big Bang nucleosynthesis and of the nucleosynthesis of the elements through the CNO, Mg-Al and Ne-Na cycles in different stars could be developed.
Today, after the first 25 years of LUNA, a new phase has started with the ambitious LUNA-MV project: a 3.5 MV accelerator is going to be installed in the Hall B of the underground laboratory. Presently the LUNA collaboration consists of about 40 researchers belonging to Bari, Genova, Milano, Napoli, Padova and Torino Universities/INFN (Italy); LNGS and Roma1 INFN (Italy); GSSI (Italy); Edinburgh University (UK), HZDR Dresden (Germany) and MTA Atomki (Hungary). This workshop aims to introduce the new facility and its scientific program to the international community looking for new collaborations.
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
P. Prati (Genova University and INFN GE) - Chair
C. Broggini (INFN PD)
A. Formicola (INFN LNGS)
G. Gervino (Torino University and INFN TO)
A. Guglielmetti (Milano University and INFN MI)
C. Gustavino (INFN Roma)
G. Imbriani (Napoli University and INFN NA)
V. Paticchio (INFN BA)
M. Aliotta (Edinburgh University UK)
D. Bemmerer (HZDR Dresden, Germany)
Zs. Fulop (MTA Atomki, Debrecen, Hungary)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
R. Antolini (INFN-LNGS)
F. Cavanna (INFN-GE)
A. Caciolli (INFN-PD)
G. Ciani (GSSI)
R. Depalo (Padova University and INFN-PD)
I. Kochanek (INFN-LNGS)
D. Trezzi (Milano University and INFN-MI)
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F. Chiarizia (INFN-LNGS,secretary)
Alessandra Guglielmetti
Andreas Best
Antonio Caciolli
Axel Boeltzig
Carlo Broggini
carlo gustavino
Carolyn Doherty
Chiara Mazzocchi
Ciro Marino
Daniel Bemmerer
Davide Trezzi
Endre Somorjai
Francesca Cavanna
Francesca Matteucci
Francesca Romana Pantaleo
Frank Strieder
Gang Lian
Gianluca Imbriani
Gianpiero Gervino
Giovanni Francesco Ciani
Hanns-Peter Trautvetter
Izabela Kochanek
Jeremias Garcia Duarte
Klaus Stoeckel
Luis Mario Fraile
László Csedreki
Maria Lugaro
Marialuisa Aliotta
Matthias Bernhard Junker
Michael Wiescher
Oscar Straniero
Oscar Trippella
Pareshkumar Prajapati
Richard deBoer
Roberto Menegazzo
Rosanna Depalo
Sandra Zavatarelli
Sara Palmerini
ShengQuan Yan
Viviana Mossa
Zenon Janas
Zsolt Fulop