https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01019-2
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
AGATA: performance of 
-ray tracking and associated algorithms
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
2
INFN Sezione di Milano, 20133, Milan, Italy
3
Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405, Orsay, France
4
Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042, Grenoble, France
b
joa.ljungvall@ijclab.in2p3.fr
Received:
6
March
2023
Accepted:
29
April
2023
Published online:
22
May
2023
AGATA is a modern -ray spectrometer for in-beam nuclear structure studies, based on -ray tracking. Since more than a decade, it has been operated performing experimental physics campaigns in different international laboratories (LNL, GSI, GANIL). This paper reviews the obtained results concerning the performances of -ray tracking in AGATA and associated algorithms. We discuss -ray tracking and algorithms developed for AGATA. Then, we present performance results in terms of efficiency and peak-to-total for AGATA. The importance of the high effective angular resolution of -ray tracking arrays is emphasised, e.g. with respect to Doppler correction. Finally, we briefly touch upon the subject of -ray imaging and its connection to -ray tracking.
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