Conceptual design of the AGATA 1$\pi$ array at GANIL

E. Clément (1) , C. Michelagnoli (1) , G. De France (1) , H.J. Li (1) , A. Lemasson (1) , M. Beuzard (1) , C. Barthe Dejean (1) , P. Bougault (1) , J. Cacitti (1) , J.-L. Foucher (1) , G. Fremont (1) , P. Gangnant (1) , J. Goupil (1) , C. Houarner (1) , M. Jean (1) , A. Lefevre (1) , L. Legeard (1) , F. Legruel (1) , C. Maugeais (1) , L. Ménager (1) , N. Ménard (1) , H. Munoz (1) , M. Ozille (1) , B. Raine (1) , J.A. Ropert (1) , F. Saillant (1) , C. Spitaels (1) , M. Tripon (1) , Ph. Valleran (1) , G. Voltolini (1) , W. Korten (2) , M.-D. Salsac (2) , Ch. Theisen (2) , M. Zielinska (2) , T. Joannem (2) , M. Karolak (2) , M. Kebbiri (2) , A. Lotodé (2) , R. Touzery (2) , Ch. Walter (2) , A. Korichi (3) , J. Ljungvall (3) , A. Lopez-Martens (3) , D. Ralet (3) , N. Dosme (3) , X. Grave (3) , N. Karkour (3) , X. Lafay (3) , E. Legay (3) , I. Kojouharov , C. Domingo-Pardo (4) , A. Gadea (4) , R.M. Pérez-Vidal (4) , J. V. Civera (4) , B. Birkenbach (5) , J. Eberth (5) , H. Hess (5) , L. Lewandowski (5) , P. Reiter (5) , A. Nannini (6) , G. De Angelis (7) , G. Jaworski (7) , P. John (7) , D.R. Napoli (7) , J.J. Valiente-Dobón (7) , D. Barrientos (7) , D. Bortolato (7) , G. Benzoni (8) , A. Bracco (8) , S. Brambilla (8) , F. Camera (8) , F.C.L. Crespi (8) , S. Leoni (8) , B. Million (8) , A. Pullia (8) , O. Wieland (8) , D. Bazzacco (9) , S.M. Lenzi (9) , S. Lunardi (9) , R. Menegazzo (9) , D. Mengoni (9) , F. Recchia (9) , M. Bellato (9) , R. Isocrate (9) , F. J. Egea Canet (9) , F. Didierjean (10) , G. Duchêne (10) , R. Baumann (10) , M. Brucker (10) , E. Dangelser (10) , M. Filliger (10) , H. Friedmann (10) , G. Gaudiot (10) , J.-N. Grapton (10) , H. Kocher (10) , C. Mathieu (10) , M.-H. Sigward (10) , D. Thomask (10) , S. Veeramootoo (10) , J. Dudouet (11) , Olivier Stézowski (11) , C. Aufranc (11) , Y. Aubert (12) , M. Labiche (13) , J. Simpson (13) , I. Burrows (13) , P.J. Colemansmith (13) , A. Grant (13) , I.H. Lazarus (13) , P.S. Morrall (13) , V.F.E. Pucknell (13) , A. Boston (14) , D.S. Judson (14) , N. Lalović (15) , J. Nyberg (16) , J. Collado (17) , V. González (17) , I. Kuti (18) , B.M. Nyakó (18) , A. Maj (19) , M. Rudigier (20)

1 GANIL - Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds
2 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
3 CSNSM - Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière
4 IFIC - Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular
5 University of Cologne
6 INFN, Sezione di Firenze - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze
7 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
8 INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano
9 INFN, Sezione di Padova - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
10 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
11 IPNL - Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon
12 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay
13 STFC - Computational Science and Engineering Department [Daresbury]
14 University of Liverpool
15 Lund University [Lund]
16 Uppsala University
17 Department of Electronic Engineering [Universitat Politecnica de Valencia]
18 MTA - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
19 Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
20 Department of Physics, University of Surrey

The Advanced GAmma Tracking Array (AGATA) has been installed at the GANIL facility, Caen-France. This setup exploits the stable and radioactive heavy-ions beams delivered by the cyclotron accelerator complex of GANIL. Additionally, it benefits from a large palette of ancillary detectors and spectrometers to address in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of exotic nuclei. The set-up has been designed to couple AGATA with a magnetic spectrometer, charged-particle and neutron detectors, scintillators for the detection of high-energy gamma rays and other devices such as a plunger to measure nuclear lifetimes. In this paper, the design and the mechanical characteristics of the set-up are described. Based on simulations, expected performances of the AGATA 1$\pi$ array are presented

Keywords: FATIMA LaBr3 detector; PARIS LaBr3 detector; Author Keywords:AGATA spectrometer; GANIL facility; gamma-ray tracking; Pulse shape analysis; VAMOS plus plus spectrometer; NEDA detector; DIAMANT detector; Plunger device

Domains: Physics [physics]; Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]

E. Clément, C. Michelagnoli, G. De France, H.J. Li, A. Lemasson, et al.. Conceptual design of the AGATA 1$\pi$ array at GANIL. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2017, 855, pp.1-12. ⟨10.1016/j.nima.2017.02.063⟩. ⟨cea-01538475⟩