The nickel isotopes offer a unique laboratory to investigate shape evolution in the vicinity of doubly-magic N=Z nucleus, $^{56}$Ni (Z=N=28), which should exhibit similar structural properties to those observed in the Z=N=20 region. Indeed, observation of the SD structures was reported also in $^{56}$Ni, explained as the result of $mp-mh$ excitations like in the case of $^{40}$Ca. However,...
We report on the current status of the Coulomb excitation experiment on $^{82}$Se performed at INFN-LNL using the AGATA array and the SPIDER particle detector. The experiment aimed to investigate the low-lying nuclear structure of $^{82}$Se through safe Coulomb excitation. Preliminary analysis of the online data has provided encouraging results, including clear identification of key...
Experiment 23.054 was proposed to clarify the possible shape coexistence in the nucleus 106Pd. Around the Z=50 shell closure, shape coexistence has been firmly established in several isotopic chains, particularly in the tin and cadmium isotopes. Intruder states have also been identified in the palladium isotopes. Nevertheless, the coexistence of different shapes has not yet been unambiguously...
The performance of γ-ray tracking with AGATA critically depends on the accuracy of Pulse-Shape Analysis (PSA), which in turn is governed by the fidelity of the signal basis describing detector response. The currently employed AGATA Data Library (ADL) basis is derived from simulations, and its limitations are widely recognized as a key factor constraining the achievable position resolution. To...
The $^{12}$C + $^{16}$O reaction plays a particularly important role in both the carbon and oxygen-burning phases of stars. Fang et al. measured this reaction in a thick-target experiment a few years ago, with both singles and particle-γ coincidence techniques down to a few nanobarns. However, the lowest energy points suffer from large experimental uncertainties which prevent discriminating...
We will present the progress of the data analysis for the PRISMA + AGATA experiment titled "Probing nucleon-nucleon correlations in the $^{48}$Ca + $^{208}$Pb system below the Coulomb barrier", conducted in March 2023 at LNL. The experiment aimed to measure the transfer probabilities for multi-neutron and multi-proton transfer channels in the $^{48}$Ca + $^{208}$Pb system at energies close to...
