Ai Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, l'astrofisica nucleare sperimentale, in particolare con il metodo del "Trojan Horse", è una delle aree di ricerca di punta. Questa tecnica, superando le limitazioni imposte dalla barriera coulombiana, ha permesso di studiare reazioni nucleari di grande interesse astrofisico e di fisica fondamentale. Si illustreranno i principi di base e si presenteroanno alcuni risultati recenti.

Ref. A. Tumino et al., Ann. Rev. Nucl. and Part. Phys. 71 (2021) 345

Aurora Tumino is full professor of physics at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the Kore University of Enna, Italy and researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali del Sud - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Catania, Italy. Past fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, her research activity is focused on topics related to Nuclear Astrophysics, in particular on the application of indirect techniques to study two-body reactions between charged particles at sub-Coulomb energies. She is currently head of the Research Division of INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud and member of several reviewer and editorial pools and research committees, her research activity is also documented by more than 300 publications in international journals, and by more than 80 invited talks/seminars to Conferences, Workshops and Schools. In 2019, she has been awarded the Grimaldi Prize 2019 for the best work in Physics carried out in the five-year period 2014-2018, reference paper: Nature, 557, (2018) 687.