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A new forum i being developed to help people regarding AGATA data analysis, software installation, grid processing, etc.This forum will be a dedicated place for any question related to these topics. Link to the forum:

http://agata.in2p3.fr/forum.

The first AGATA-GRETINA collaboration meeting will be held from the 5th to the 7th of December 2016 at ANL (Argonne National Laboratory), USA. For registration and further information, please click here.

The second workshop of the Nuclear Spectroscopy Instrumentation Network of ENSAR2, NUSPIN 2017, will be held at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, 26-29 June 2017. The workshop will host the Annual AGATA Collaboration Meeting Thursday 29th June 2017. Meetings of the NUSPIN Scientific Committee and the Working Groups will also take place during this week. The circulars with the announcements of the workshop can be downloaded below.

For registration and further information please visit the workshop website: http://indico.gsi.de/event/nuspin2017.

GANIL, 16-18 January 2018

For further information about this workshop, please contact Emmanuel Clément.

GSI, 26 February - 2 March 2018

Dear colleagues,

we would like to announce the NUSTAR Annual Meeting 2018 to be held at GSI February 26 - March 2, 2018. As usual the first two days will be dedicated to sub-collaboration meetings, while Wednesday to Friday we will have plenary sessions including the GENCO Award session on Thursday afternoon.

https://indico.gsi.de/event/5843/

If you have not done already, please come back to us with your wishes for sub-collaboration or working-group meetings. We are also looking for suggestions of plenary speakers - just let us know or contact your sub-collaboration spokesperson.

In due time you will receive further information on the program and travel details. Please distribute this message to interested people you know.

We look forward to meeting you all at GSI!

Sincerely Yours,

Alexander Herlert
on behalf of the NUSTAR Board of Representatives, the NUSTAR at GSI group, and the NUSTAR management team

Valencia, Spain, June 25-29 2018

The 3rd Workshop of the Nuclear Spectroscopy Instrumentation Network of ENSAR2, NUSPIN 2018, will take place at IFIC Valencia in Spain, June 25-29 2018. The NUSPIN Workshop will host as well the AGATA Town Meeting, discussing the AGATA Science White Book for the 4π array June 28-29 2018.

Registration and abstract submission: http://indico.ific.uv.es/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=3190

10-14 September 2018, IPHC Strasbourg

Dear collaborators,

This message is to announce that the registration in now opened for both the 19th AGATA week and the 3rd Position Sensitive Germanium Detectors (PSeGe)
technology and application Workshop.

The registration can be done in the web page for both events:

https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/17160/

Both events, the AGATA week and the PSeGe workshop, will be held at IPHC from Monday 10th to Friday 14th September 2018.

Sessions are foreseen from Monday afternoon to Friday morning, i.e. four full days, therefore, please consider the extra time for travelling.

The meeting is being organized by our collaborators from IPHC, France and will be held in IPHC Grünewald amphitheatre located in building 25.

Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning will be devoted to the PSeGe workshop. PSeGe is a JRA within the ENSAR2 –EC- project, aiming to develop position
sensitive Ge detector technologies and to the demonstration of Ge detector imaging applications and associated detector technologies.

Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning will be devoted to the 19th AGATA week. For this part of the meeting, the program will include
reports from the regular working group and team meetings.

Please feel free to forward this message to your collaborators.

Best regards,

IPHC Local Organizers
The AGATA Management Board
The PSeGE Management Board

3-7 June 2019, University of Liverpool, UK

Under the framework of NUSPIN@ENSAR2 training activities there will be a Germanium Detector School hosted at the University of Liverpool from 3rd to 7th June 2019. The school is aimed at postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and electronics engineers who are not experts in germanium detector systems. The school is a complementary activity to the recent Hands on Workshop on Test, Operation and Repair of detectors held at IKP Cologne in September 2018. The school will give an introduction to germanium detector systems and provide training in essential measurement techniques.

Topics include:

• Detector assembly
• Repair/Problem solving
• Annealing & Vacuum testing
• Performance Testing
• Custom Acceptance Testing

The website and registration page will be available shortly. ENSAR2 financial support is available to students, postdoctoral researchers and electronics engineers to help with their attendance at this school.

Andy Boston, on behalf of the local organising committee

Registration Announcement

20th AGATA Week and 4th Position Sensitive Germanium Detectors and application Workshop

16th – 20th September 2019

Dear collaborators,

This message is to announce that in the web page

https://agenda.infn.it/event/19438/

the registration is now opened for both the 20th AGATA week and the 4th Position Sensitive Germanium Detectors (PSeGe) technology and applications Workshop.

Both events, will be held at INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Padova, Italy from Monday 16th to Friday 20th September 2019 and are being organized by our collaborators from the Legnaro National Laboratory, INFN-Sezione di Padova and the University of Padova.

Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning will be devoted to the PSeGe workshop. PSeGe is a Joint Research Activity within the ENSAR2-Horizon2020 project, aiming to develop position sensitive Ge detector technologies and the demonstration of Ge detector imaging applications and associated detector technologies.

Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday and Thursday will be devoted to the 20th AGATA week. For this part of the meeting, the program will include reports from the regular working group and team meetings.

We encourage the participants to register as soon as possible to facilitate the organization.

Please, feel free to forward this message to your collaborators.

Looking forward to seeing you in Padova.

INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN Sezione di Padova and** University of Padova Local Organizers
The AGATA Management Board
The PSeGe Management Board

The next (and last) pre-PAC meeting of the AGATA at GANIL campaign will be held on 19-20 March 2020. The goal of this workshop is to discuss the physics cases and to assess the feasibility of proposals to be submitted to the forthcoming GANIL PAC. The call is for VAMOS + AGATA without MAJOR ancillary such as MUGAST or NEDA. The use of other ancillary detectors is feasible. The experiments will run in 2021.

For further information please contact Zsolt Podolyák and Emmanuel Clément.

AGATA equipment has been shipped from GANIL to LNL

The last experiment of the 2015-2021 AGATA campaign at GANIL ended 2021-07-05 06:30 CEST.

A truck has transported most of the AGATA equipment except the detectors from GANIL to LNL. See attached photos of the truck. The detectors are being sent to Mirion in Strasbourg for annealing.

The AGATA 2π mechanical holding structure, that can hold 90 AGATA Triple Cryostats, was designed and built at STFC Daresbury. The holding structure was shipped from Daresbury and arrived to LNL 2021-10-12. It was then installed in front the PRISMA spectrometer. See attached photo and video from the installation.

Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached the announcement of the first Pre-PAC Workshop for the AGATA physics campaign at LNL. The workshop will take place on November 8-10th, 2021 at Legnaro Laboratory in Italy. More details are available at the website of the workshop:

https://agenda.infn.it/e/pre-Pac_AGATA

Magda Zielinska and Jose Javier Valiente Dobon

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the AGATA Geant4 Simulations Workshop that will take place in Milan, Italy, on January 17-19, 2022. This workshop will comprise lectures and practical tutorials on Geant4 simulations tools for the the AGATA high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometer currently under installation at INFN-Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (Italy), to start the experimental activity there in 2022. There will be 2 main sessions to cover first basic Agata Simulations and then more advanced simulation with ancillary detectors.

Participants are asked to bring their own laptop for practical tutorials, instructions on needed software installation will be published on the indico webpage soon.

Depending on the evolution of the Covid situation some aspects of the workshop organization might change (extreme situation is a workshop done only remotely). We will inform all registered participants by e-mail of any changes and post them on this website.

Regarding general info about the workshop (e.g. lectures/tutorials/etc..) please write to: Marc Labiche.

Regarding practical info related to the local organization please write to: asws2022milan@lists.mi.infn.it.

The deadline for the registration is the 15th of December 2022.

Possible number of participants is limited.

Please visit the indico website of the event for registration and details:

https://agenda.infn.it/event/28706/

Best Regards,

The Organizers

Marc Labiche
Benedicte Million
Eugenio Gamba
Fabio Crespi
Oliver Wieland
Rosa Perez
Simone Bottoni

A link to the slideshow shown at the celebration can be found here: LINK.

Website of the Workshop with some of the presentations

Here is the link to the website of the workshop:

https://agenda.infn.it/event/31038/

Some of the presentations given at the workshop are available for download from the menu Timetable on that page.

Second circular: AGATA Campaign at LNL Second Pre-PAC Workshop

Dear all,

please find attached the second circular for the Second Pre-PAC Workshop AGATA
Campaign at LNL.

Yours,

Jose Javier Valiente Dobon

Reminder: Second Pre-PAC Workshop for the AGATA physics campaign at LNL: October 5th-7th, 2022

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the approaching deadline (September 21, 2022) for submission of Letters of Intent to be presented at the second Pre-PAC Workshop for the AGATA physics campaign at LNL. The workshop will take place on October 5-7th, 2022 at LNL. Additionally, in order to facilitate planning of a future AGATA campaign involving PRISMA at zero degrees, we are planning to organise a complementary half-day meeting in the morning of October 5 where ideas for such studies could be discussed.

The forthcoming LNL PAC meeting is scheduled for December 5-7th, 2022, and will evaluate experiments to be performed in the first half of 2023. During this period, beams from the full TANDEM-ALPI-PIAVE complex will be available at LNL, and AGATA is expected to consist of a minimum of 15 triple clusters (1p solid angle coverage).

The aim of the workshop is to assist the spokespersons in putting the strongest cases for their proposals forward through a discussion of the physics to be investigated, and to assess the feasibility of the proposed experiments. This includes all experiments planning to use stable beams from the Tandem-ALPI-PIAVE complex for studies involving AGATA in a possible combination with PRISMA and/or ancillary detectors that are compatible with PRISMA. We point out that all proposals using AGATA will have to be discussed at this workshop before being submitted to the LNL PAC. This applies also tothe projects that were discussed at the PAC meeting in February 2022, but have not been granted beamtime in 2022. By applying such a procedure, the collaboration hopes to avoid their potential overlaps with new projects.

You can find some technical information at:

https://agenda.infn.it/event/31038/attachments/89786/120836/Technical-prePAC-final.pdf/

For more details on the Workshop please see the First Circular attached below.

Yours,

Magda Zielinska
Jose Javier Valiente Dobon

Second Pre-PAC Workshop for the AGATA physics campaign at LNL: October 5th-7th, 2022

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the second Pre-PAC Workshop for the AGATA physics campaign at LNL. The workshop will take place on October 5-7th, 2022 at LNL.

Workshop website: https://agenda.infn.it/event/31038/.

The forthcoming LNL PAC meeting is scheduled for December 5-7th, 2022, and will evaluate experiments to be performed in the first half of 2023. During this period, beams from the full TANDEM-ALPI-PIAVE complex will be available at LNL, and AGATA is expected to consist of a minimum of 15 triple clusters (1π solid angle coverage).

The aim of the workshop is to assist the spokespersons in putting the strongest cases for their proposals forward through a discussion of the physics to be investigated, and to assess the feasibility of the proposed experiments. This includes all experiments planning to use stable beams from the Tandem-ALPI-PIAVE complex for studies involving AGATA in a possible combination with PRISMA and/or ancillary detectors that are compatible with PRISMA. We point out that all proposals using AGATA will have to be discussed at this workshop before being submitted to the LNL PAC. This applies also to the projects that were discussed at the PAC meeting in February 2022, but have not been granted beam time in 2022. By applying such a procedure, the collaboration hopes to avoid their potential overlaps with new projects.

For more details on the Workshop, including the registration and LoI submission deadlines, please see the First Circular attached to this email.

Yours,
Magda Zielinska
Jose Javier Valiente Dobon

AGATA Monitoring Tool

A description of how to access the AGATA Monitoring Tool is available on this page:

https://www.agata.org/agata_monitoring_tool/

Dear collaborators,

The next AGATA Analysis workshop will be held at LNL from 10th to 15th of September. It aims to help any user that will have to handle AGATA data taken during the last Legnaro campain with the analysis and software of the collaboration.

The registrations are already opened on the indigo web page:

https://agenda.infn.it/event/36303/

Regards,

The organizers, on behalf of the Data analysis working group

The 23rd AGATA week and the 14th annual meeting of the AGATA collaboration will be held 16-20 October 2023 at INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro in Italy.

Details of the event can be found here: https://agenda.infn.it/event/36366/.