Project Management

José Javier Valiente Dobón
Project Manager · Spain

Coordination Team

• Mustafa Nizamettin Erduran — Turkey
• Gilles de France — France
• Andres Gadea — Spain
• Marek Moszyński — Poland
• Johan Nyberg — Sweden
• Marcin Palacz — Poland
• Bob Wadsworth — United Kingdom

Data Ownership

Data collected during experiments using NEDA are jointly owned by the NEDA Collaboration, the collaborating scientific teams involved in the experiment, and the laboratories where the experimental campaigns were carried out.

The scientific content of the data—including nuclear structure, nuclear reactions and any other research activities defined in the approved proposal—is assigned with priority to the experiment spokespersons and their collaborators.

Data Analysis Responsibilities

• Experiment spokespersons and their collaborators are expected to actively participate in the analysis of the data in order to retain priority access.
• A brief report on the status of the data analysis is requested annually by the NEDA Management Board.

Collaboration Access

NEDA data may also be accessed by members of the collaboration for detector performance studies, software validation and the development or testing of new data analysis techniques, in accordance with the policies established by the NEDA Management Board.

Scope

The NEDA Publication Policy defines the procedure for submitting manuscripts based on scientific results obtained using the NEDA detector system. It applies to peer-reviewed physics publications and establishes the responsibilities of authors and the NEDA Core Authors.

NEDA Physics Publications

• A NEDA physics publication is a peer-reviewed article based on scientific results obtained in experiments using NEDA.
• Conference proceedings and technical publications are covered by separate policies.
• The NEDA Management Board maintains an official NEDA Core Author List.

Responsibilities of the Main Author

1. Send the manuscript in PDF format to the NEDA publication coordinator before journal submission.
2. Specify the relevant NEDA campaign and propose a response deadline for the Core Authors (recommended: two weeks).
3. After the consultation period, include all Core Authors who have accepted co-authorship.
4. The website administrators manage the co-author invitation process and maintain the final author list.

Responsibilities of NEDA Core Authors

• Core Authors receive an invitation to participate as co-authors for eligible publications.
• All submitted manuscripts must remain strictly confidential until publication.
• Before downloading a manuscript, Core Authors must accept the confidentiality agreement.
• Core Authors are responsible for keeping their affiliation and contact details up to date.

Conference Proceedings & Technical Publications

• Conference proceedings should follow standard authorship practice and the Chair of the NEDA Management Board should be informed upon publication.
• Technical publications describing NEDA developments should be reviewed by the NEDA Management Board before submission to ensure scientific consistency.

Contacts

The following resources are available to members of the collaboration.  Access to these resources requires authentication:

• NEDA Manuscripts submitted through the Core Author procedure.
• NEDA Core Author Lists for the different experimental campaigns.

Policy and Core Author List
José Javier Valiente Dobón
Chair of the NEDA Management Board

Technical Support
Webmaster – AGATA Collaboration

NEDA@HIL Workshop 2021

The NEDA@HIL Workshop was held on 20–21 October 2021 at the Heavy Ion Laboratory (HIL), University of Warsaw, Poland. The workshop brought together members of the NEDA collaboration and the wider nuclear physics community to prepare the first experimental programme for the NEDA detector at HIL.

Objectives

• Present the NEDA detector system and its integration with the EAGLE γ-ray spectrometer.
• Discuss and strengthen ideas for future experimental projects.
• Encourage the preparation of proposals for submission to the HIL Programme Advisory Committee (PAC).
• Promote collaboration between researchers interested in experiments using the NEDA–EAGLE setup.

Outcome

The workshop marked an important milestone in preparing the scientific programme for NEDA at HIL. The discussions led to the development of experimental proposals for the first campaigns using the combined NEDA–EAGLE detection system, which became available from the second half of 2022.