ERNA (European Recoil separator for Nuclear Astrophysics) is in the small number of facilities around the world where in-line mass separation for Nuclear Astrophysics experiments has been implemented. Originally installed at the Dynamitron Tandem Laboratorium of the RUB, in 2009 ERNA was moved to the CIRCE (Center for Isotopic Research on Cultural and Environmental heritage) laboratory of the Università della Campania "L.Vanvitelli"-INNOVA. The layout of the separator has been modified to improve its specifications. Starting 2012 ERNA is again operative.

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ASBeST

ASBest A 7-Beryllium electron capture STudy for nuclear and solid state physics 

The project won the MIUR call for funding program within the framework of "PRIN: PROGETTI DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE" –  2020 (Agreement TBC).

PI Prof. Lucio Gialanella

The ASBeST project aims to study the ⁷Be electron capture decay for the first time under controlled conditions by exploiting two novel approaches. On the one hand, measurements of the half-life of ⁷Be ions in different charge states will be performed using an intense ⁷Be ion beam and accelerator mass spectrometry techniques. On the other, the Stark effect in solids will be produced in Silicon Carbide (SiC) based electronic devices. The results will be used to determine with high precision the nuclear matrix elements of the weak interaction, that will be compared with the outcome of a fully microscopic calculation.

The project, due to its multidisciplinary nature, will be carried out thanks to the availability of skills and laboratories of high international qualification in the different Research Units (RUs):

RU1 - University of Campania, Department of Mathematics and Physics

RU2 - CNR IMM Bologna

RU3 - INFN Roma-LNGS

RU4- University of Salerno, Department of Engineering