10th AGATA Week: IPN-Lyon 22-26 November 2010

10^th AGATA Week

IPN-Lyon 22-26 November 2010

Plenary sessions

Monday 22^nd

13:00-14:00 Registration

14:00-15:00 - Welcome by the local organization (B. Ille, Head of IPNL)
- Report on the AGATA project and AMB organization (A. Gadea)
- Status of AGATA at LNL Legnaro (E. Farnea)
- Performance report

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-18:30 Simulations and Complementary detectors
(Chairperson M. Palacz/E. Farnea)

- Simulations for Doppler shift lifetime measurements and complex level schemes
(C. Michelagnoli, INFN Padova) 30”
- Status of the simulations for the NEDA array (M. Palacz, Warsaw Uni.) 30”

                        Interfacing Complementary Instrumentation
                        - Status of the AGAVA GTS Interface (B. Dulny, IFJ-PAN Cracow) 30”
                        - Status of the EXOGAM2 Front-End Electronics (M. Tripon, GANIL) 30”

News on Complementary detectors and Mecanical Integration
(Chairperson J.J. Valiente-Dobon INFN-LNL Legnaro)

- The Plunger setup for AGATA at PRESPEC (Ch. Fransen IKP-Köln)

19:00 Welcome cocktail

Tuesday 23^rd

9:00-11:00 Infrastructure Working Group Contributions

- Infrastructure Status (P. Jones, JYFL Jyvalkyla) 20'

- Detector Support System GUI (T. Habermann, GSI) 20'

- Grounding (N. Karkour, CSNSM Orsay) 20'

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Infrastructure for the Installation of AGATA at GSI

- AGATA - PRESPEC mechanics support structure (J. Strachan, STFC Daresbury)

- The HELENA setup for PRESPEC (B. Milion, INFN-Milano)

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:30 Front-End Electronics W.G
status reports and contributions on upgrades for the new phase

- Status report of the FEE production (Ian Lazarus, STFC Daresbury)

- Report on the commissioning of the VHDL V1 (N. Karkour, CSNSM Orsay

- Digitiser report (P. Coleman-Smith, Daresbury Laboratory)

Contributions on the Future FEE for AGATA:

- Digital Preamplifier (A. Pullia, University and INFN-Milano)
- Integration of the Pre-processing Electronics (D. Bortolato, INFN-Padova)

                               - R&D on Full Integration of the AGATA Electronics (N. Karkour, CSNSM Orsay)
                               - GTS present and future (to be confirmed)
                               - Slow control present and future (E. Legay, CSNSM Orsay)

16:30-17:00              Coffee Break                           



17:00-18:30              Front-End Electronics (continue)

20:30 Conference Dinner

Wednesday 24^th

Parallel session at the salle du Conseil

9:00-11:00 Data Acquisition, Run Control and Slow Control

- Overwiew (Ch. Theisen, CEA Saclay)

- Data flow upgrades (X. Grave, IPN Orsay)

- GEC and monitoring (Eric Legay, CSNSM Orsay)

- On-line checking using watchers (Olivier Stézowski , IPN Lyon)

- Grid data transfers (O. Stezowski on behalf of P. Molini, INFN LNL)

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Data Acquisition, Run Control and Slow Control

- Hardware and admin (Yann Aubert, IPN Orsay)

- New ideas for next phases - Project definition (Ch. Theisen, CEA Saclay)

- GSI phase (N. Kurz, GSI Darmstadt)

- Discussions on the GSI phase

- Conclusions (Ch. Theisen, CEA Saclay)

Parallel Session at the Amphitheater Hall

9:00-11:00 Detector Module

- Overview and status of AGATA detectors (P. Reiter, IKP-Uni. Cologne) 20”

- Overview of detector characterisation at UoL (C. Unsworth , Uni. Liverpool)

- Characterisation of AGATA detectors (B. Birkenbach , IKP-Uni. Cologne)

- Neutron damage and trapping effects (B. Bruyneel, IKP-Uni. Cologne)

- Results from Orsay scanning (A. Korichi, CSNSM Orsay)

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Detector Module and PSA

- A calibration experiment for the AGATA pulse shape analysis

(S. Klupp, TU-Munich) 20”

- Signal Basis extracted with the PSCS method and tests with RS algorithm

(F. Crespi, INFN-Milano) 20”

- Progress in PSA development (M. Schlarb, TU-Munich) 15”

- Results from GSI scanning system (N. Goel, GSI Darmstadt) 20”

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:30 Tracking and Data Analysis

Tracking

- Tracking status report (A. Lopez-Martens, CSNSM Orsay) 15”

Data analysis

- Data analysis status (O. Stezowski, IPN Lyon)

- Progress in on-line and off-line data processing (D. Bazzacco, INFN Padova)

- Lifetime measurements in neutron-rich Zn isotopes (C. Louchart, Saclay) 15”

- ^{42Ca coulex - current
status of the analysis} (K. Hadynska, Klek)

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:30 Tracking and Data Analysis continued

- Position resolution measurement based on results of commissioning experiment #1

(P-A. Söderström, Uppsala University) 15”

- Data analysis with Cracow (J. Grebosz, IFJ PAN Cracow)

Grid

- The AGATA GRID model and Status of data analysis on the Grid (M. Kaci, IFIC Valencia)

- Narval on the Grid (X. Grave, IPN Orsay)

19:00 Cocktail at the Villeurbanne’s Town Hall

Thursday 25^th

9:00-10:30         AGATA Collaboration Council
                        Closed Meeting of the Council

10:30-11:00       Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 - AGATA at PRESPEC-GSI Status and LoI’s for AGATA at PRESPEC-GSI (H.J. Wollersheim, GSI, Darmstadt)

- The conceptual design of the AGATA setup at PRESPEC (C. Domingo, GSI Darmstadt)

- In-beam background tests at GSI-FRS with an AGATA Capsule (C. Domingo, GSI Darmstadt)

- Core preamplifier adjustments for ToT tests at GSI (A. Pullia INFN-Milano)

12:00-13:30 Status of the AGATA experiments performed at LNL

- Order-to-chaos transition in warm rotating 174W nuclei (V. Vandone, Milano)

- Inelastic scattering as a tool to search for highly excited states up to the region
of the Giant Quadrupole Resonance (F. Crespi, Milano)

- Lifetime measurement in neutron-rich Ni, Cu, and Zn isotopes (E. Sahin, LNL)

- Lifetime measurement of the 6.792 MeV state in 15O (C. Michelagnoli, Padova)

                        - 64Ni lifetimes (J.J. Valiente-Dobon, LNL)

13:30-14:30       Lunch

14:30-16:30       Short Presentations of new LoI’s for AGATA at LNL

16:30-17:00       Coffee Break

17:00-18:30       High Resolution gamma spectroscopy at SPIRAL2