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Description
The LUNA (Laboratory for Nuclear Astrophysics) collaboration has a long and successful history in measuring the cross sections of astrophysically important reactions in a deep underground location at LNGS, Italy. In addition to the very prolific LUNA-II 400 keV accelerator, the collaboration has an extensive program on the recently launched Bellotti Ion Beam Facility (BIBF), which is based on a 3.5 MeV accelerator at LNGS.
The first completed experimental campaign at BIBF was the study of $^{14}$N(p,$\gamma$)$^{15}$O, the key reaction of the CNO cycle hydrogen burning. In this talk, the experimental methods and some preliminary results of the $^{14}$N(p,$\gamma$)$^{15}$O cross section measurement will be presented. In addition, some recent results and ongoing activities of the LUNA collaboration will also be advertised shortly.
