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The nuclear physics of the hydrogen burning in the Sun

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Underground nuclear astrophysics focuses its efforts towards a deeper knowledge of the nuclear reactions that rule stellar evolution processes and enable the synthesis of the elements of the periodic table. Deep underground in the Gran Sasso laboratory, the cross-sections of the key reactions of the hydrogen burning have been measured right down to the energies of astrophysical interest. The main results obtained by the LUNA Collaboration are reviewed, and their contributions to the solution of the solar neutrino problem and to the age of the globular cluster are discussed.

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  1. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, via Acitelli 22, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

    Alba Formicola

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, INFN Genova, via Dedecaneso 33, 16144, Genova, Italy

    Pietro Corvisiero

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino and INFN Torino, via Giuria 1, 10125, Torino, Italy

    Gianpiero Gervino

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Communicated by C. Broggini

The Luna Collaboration dedicates this paper to the memory of Prof. Roberto Bonetti and Dr. Alberto Lemut. We deeply miss their help and advice, and their friendship.

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Formicola, A., Corvisiero, P. & Gervino, G. The nuclear physics of the hydrogen burning in the Sun. Eur. Phys. J. A 52, 73 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16073-6

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