Physics opportunities with the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array: AGATA

W. Korten; A. Atac; D. Beaumel; P. Bednarczyk; M. A. Bentley; G. Benzoni; A. Boston; A. Bracco; J. Cederkäll; B. Cederwall; M. Ciemała; E. Clément; F. C. L. Crespi; D. Curien; G. de Angelis; F. Didierjean; D. T. Doherty; Zs. Dombradi; G. Duchêne; J. Dudek; B. Fernandez-Dominguez; B. Fornal; A. Gadea; L. P. Gaffney; J. Gerl; K. Gladnishki; A. Goasduff; M. Górska; P. T. Greenlees; H. Hess; D. G. Jenkins; P. R. John; A. Jungclaus; M. Kmiecik; A. Korichi; M. Labiche; S. Leoni; J. Ljungvall; A. Lopez-Martens; A. Maj; D. Mengoni; B. Million; A. Nannini; D. Napoli; P. J. Nolan; J. Nyberg; A. Obertelli; J. Pakarinen; N. Pietralla; Zs. Podolyák; B. Quintana; R. Raabe; G. Rainovski; F. Recchia; P. Reiter; D. Rudolph; J. Simpson; Ch. Theisen; D. Tonev; A. Tumino; J. J. Valiente-Dobón; O. Wieland; K. Wimmer; M. Zielińska

doi:10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00132-w

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Hadrons and Nuclei

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Eur. Phys. J. A (2020) 56: 137
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-020-00132-w

Review

Physics opportunities with the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array: AGATA

W. Korten⁹^*, A. Atac³⁰^,35, D. Beaumel²³, P. Bednarczyk¹⁴, M. A. Bentley³⁴, G. Benzoni²¹, A. Boston¹⁷, A. Bracco²⁰^,21, J. Cederkäll¹⁸, B. Cederwall³⁰, M. Ciemała¹⁴, E. Clément¹, F. C. L. Crespi²⁰^,21, D. Curien³¹, G. de Angelis¹⁵, F. Didierjean³¹, D. T. Doherty¹⁰, Zs. Dombradi⁶, G. Duchêne³¹, J. Dudek³¹, B. Fernandez-Dominguez²⁷, B. Fornal¹⁴, A. Gadea³³, L. P. Gaffney¹⁷, J. Gerl⁴, K. Gladnishki²⁸, A. Goasduff²⁵, M. Górska⁴, P. T. Greenlees¹², H. Hess¹³, D. G. Jenkins³⁴, P. R. John⁵, A. Jungclaus¹⁹, M. Kmiecik¹⁴, A. Korichi²², M. Labiche³, S. Leoni²⁰^,21, J. Ljungvall²², A. Lopez-Martens²², A. Maj¹⁴, D. Mengoni²⁴^,25, B. Million²¹, A. Nannini⁸, D. Napoli¹⁵, P. J. Nolan¹⁷, J. Nyberg³², A. Obertelli⁵, J. Pakarinen¹¹^,12, N. Pietralla⁵, Zs. Podolyák¹⁰, B. Quintana²⁶, R. Raabe¹⁶, G. Rainovski²⁸, F. Recchia²⁴^,25, P. Reiter¹³, D. Rudolph¹⁸, J. Simpson³, Ch. Theisen⁹, D. Tonev²⁹, A. Tumino²^,7, J. J. Valiente-Dobón¹⁵, O. Wieland²¹, K. Wimmer¹⁹, M. Zielińska⁹ and the AGATA Collaboration

¹ GANIL, CEA/DRF-CNRS/IN2P3, Bd. Henri Becquerel, BP 55027, 14076, Caen Cedex 05, France
² Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN, Via S. Sofia 62, 95123, Catania, Italy
³ Daresbury Laboratory, UKRI-STFC, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD, UK
⁴ GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstrasse 1, 64291, Darmstadt, Germany
⁵ Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schlossgartenstrasse 9, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany
⁶ Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Bem Square 18/c, 4026, Debrecen, Hungary
⁷ Facoltá di Ingegneria e Architettura, Universitá di Enna Kore, 94100, Enna, Italy
⁸ INFN, Sezione di Firenze, 50125, Florence, Italy
⁹ Irfu, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
¹⁰ Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK
¹¹ Helsinki Institute of Physics, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
¹² Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, 40014, Jyvaskyla, Finland
¹³ Institut für Kernphysik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Straße 77, 50937, Cologne, Germany
¹⁴ Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-342, Kraków, Poland
¹⁵ Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, INFN, Viale dell’Università, 2, 35020, Legnaro, Italy
¹⁶ Instituut voor Kern- en Stralingsfysica, KU Leuven, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
¹⁷ Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK
¹⁸ Department of Physics, Lund University, 221 00, Lund, Sweden
¹⁹ Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Madrid, 28006, Madrid, Spain
²⁰ Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
²¹ INFN, Sezione di Milano, Via Celoria 16, 20133, Milan, Italy
²² CSNSM, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
²³ Institut de Physique Nucléaire, CNRS-IN2P3, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91406, Orsay, France
²⁴ INFN, Sezione di Padova, 35131, Padua, Italy
²⁵ Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università degli Studi di Padova, 35131, Padua, Italy
²⁶ Departamento de Física Fundamental, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008, Salamanca, Spain
²⁷ Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15754, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
²⁸ Department of Atomic Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia, 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria
²⁹ Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1784, Sofia, Bulgaria
³⁰ Department of Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
³¹ Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, 67037, Strasbourg, France
³² Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, 75120, Uppsala, Sweden
³³ Instituto de Física Corpuscular IFIC, CSIC-University of Valencia, 46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
³⁴ Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
³⁵ Department of Physics, Ankara University, 06100, Tandogan, Ankara, Turkey

^* e-mail: w.korten@cea.fr

Received: 12 December 2019
Accepted: 9 February 2020
Published online: 19 May 2020

Abstract

New physics opportunities are opening up by the Advanced Gamma Tracking Array, AGATA, as it evolves to the full 4 $\pi$ instrument. AGATA is a high-resolution $\gamma$ -ray spectrometer, solely built from highly segmented high-purity Ge detectors, capable of measuring $\gamma$ rays from a few tens of keV to beyond 10 MeV, with unprecedented efficiency, excellent position resolution for individual $\gamma$ -ray interactions, and very high count-rate capability. As a travelling detector AGATA will be employed at all major current and near-future European research facilities delivering stable and radioactive ion beams.