https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01627-0
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Solid target production for astrophysical research: the European target laboratory partnership in ChETEC-INFRA
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura, Università di Enna ‘Kore’, Enna, Italy
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Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN, Catania, Italy
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National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering Horia Hulubei, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Sezione di Milano, INFN, Milan, Italy
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Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
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Sezione di Padova, INFN, Padova, Italy
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Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France
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Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds, GANIL, Caen, France
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Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Legnaro, Italy
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University of Strasbourg Institute of Advanced Studies, USIAS, Strasbourg, France
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Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, INFN, Assergi, Italy
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Institute for Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “E. Majorana”, Università of Catania, Catania, Italy
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Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e Struttura della Materia, CSFNSM, Catania, Italy
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
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Institute for Nuclear Research, ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
Received:
20
March
2025
Accepted:
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June
2025
Published online:
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July
2025
The joint work of European target laboratories in the ChETEC-INFRA project is presented, to face the new experimental challenges of nuclear astrophysics. In particular, results are presented on innovative targets of 
C, 
O, and 
F that were produced, characterized, and, in some cases, tested under beam irradiation. STAR (Solid Targets for Astrophysics Research) is already acting to increase collaboration among laboratories, to achieve shared protocols for target production, and to offer a characterization service to the entire nuclear astrophysics community.
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