The AGATA Project First 4pi -ray spectrometer built completely from Germanium detectors. Based on the novel technique of gamma-ray tracking. Measures radiation.

The AGATA Project

First 4pi -ray spectrometer built completely from Germanium detectors.

Based on the novel technique of gamma-ray tracking.

Measures radiation in a very large energy range, with the largest possible efficiency and with a very good spectral response.

Several orders of magnitude more powerful than any current and near-future –ray spectrometer in the world.

Key parameters are (i) an energy range < 50 keV to > 10 MeV, (ii) a photo-peak efficiency of about 50% at 1 MeV, (iii) a position resolution of < 5 mm and (vi) a trigger rate of up to 1 MHz.

International experimental facility for the investigation of nuclear structure, nuclear astrophysics and fundamental interactions

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AGATA Collaboration

Bulgaria: SofiaDenmark: CopenhagenFinland:: JyväskyläFrance: GANIL, Lyon, Orsay, Saclay, StrasbourgGermany: Berlin, Bonn, GSI, Darmstadt, Köln, MünchenHungary: DebrecenItaly: Padova, Milano, LNL, Firenze, Camerino, Napoli, GenovaPoland: Krakow, Swierk, WarsawRomania: BucharestSweden: Lund, Stockholm, UppsalaTurkey: Ankara, IstanbulUK: Daresbury, Brighton, Keele, Liverpool, Manchester,

Paisley, Surrey, York

Clustering of the nuclear structure community around a well organized and focused European research collaboration

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AGATA Facility

Accepted Host Laboratories for the Demonstrator Phase 2008-2011:

LNL Legnaro GANIL Caen GSI Darmstadt ILL Grenoble

Interested Host Laboratories for the AGATA array:

FAIR / GSI Darmstadt SPIRAL 2 / GANIL Caen SPES / LNL Legnaro

REX-ISOLDE / CERN Geneve JYFL Jyväskylä ILL Grenoble ....

AGATA is intended to be an independent, movable Research Infrastructure to be coupled to stable and exotic ion beam accelerators in European host laboratories

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•Develop 36 fold segmented encapsulated detector of right shape

•Develop cryostat for groups (“clusters”) of these detectors

•Develop digital electronics (700 channels)

•Finalise signal algorithms for energy, position and time

•Develop tracking algorithms

•Build demonstration unit to prove tracking in real situations

•Write technical proposal for full array

AGATA R&D Phase

Prototyping, testing, commissioning...

1 symmetric triple-cluster5 asymmetric triple-clusters

36-fold segmented crystals540 segments555 digital-channels

Eff. 3 – 8 % @ Mg = 1

Eff. 2 – 4 % @ Mg = 30

Full DACQwith on line PSA and -ray trackingTest Sites:GANIL, GSI, Köln, LNL

AGATA Demonstrator

Main objective of the R&D phase

Total 6006 k€ ex tax

Latest estimated cost:(3 sym + 15 asym.)

k€ ex taxDetectors 4033Electronics 1378DAQ 287D&I 103Ancillaries 24Data analysis 20Total 5844

Capital for the demonstrator:

15 + 3 detector system possible (just)

France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Turkey and UK

AGATA Demonstrator Funding

• Symmetric detectors

– 3 delivered

• Asymmetric detectors

– 15 ordered, 4 delivered

• Triple cryostats

– 3 (soon 4) ordered

– 1st expected May

• Test cryostats

– 3 delivered

– 1 ordered (expected soon)

• Preamplifiers

– Core (cologne) Segment (Ganil. Milano) working

AGATA Detectors

Detectors in time...

AGATA Electronics

Preamplifier

Digitizer

Pre-processing, further development needed

Best resultγ detector, seg. mult. 1

Full dataset

Simulation

FWHM FWHM FWHM

Detector 32 keV 35 keV

Segment 11.1 keV 12 keV

PSA 4.8 keV 5.3 keV 5.0 keV

REACTION CHANNEL: (d,p)

PSASegDet

1382 keV

BEAM 48Ti 100 MeV

TARGET 48Ti + 2H 220 μg/cm2

Si detectorDSSSD

thickness 300 μm

segmentation 32 rings, 64 sectors

Absorber thickness 16 μm (Al)

AGATA symmetric triple-cluster

Köln in-beam test 2005

•180 geometry defined•Conceptual design of 180 array done•Details of HV, LN2 control etc. agreed, GSI test done•Design of AGATA demonstrator for LNL in final stage•Flanges manufacturing started•Assembly in LNL in autumn 2007

AGATA Design and Construction

Infrastructure in time...

• Next steps– Build up triple detector (s)– Ge detector characterisation – Pulse-shape analysis algorithms optimised – Gamma-ray tracking algorithms optimised – Electronics and DAQ prototypes and production

• Demonstrator ready by 2008• First physics campaign at Legnaro in late 2008• Further campaigns at GANIL, GSI, (ILL)

Status of the AGATA Project

What remains to be done

• Demonstrator ready in 2008

• Next phases discussed in 2005-2007• New LoI for construction phase 2005• First funding bids for production in D and I successful

• New MoU in preparation (required by D in 2007 to release funds)• New organisational structure• Start construction in 2008, 1 in possible in 2011• Rate of construction depends on production capability• Physics exploitation in stages, AGATA facility development

AGATA Project Evolution

How to proceed

AGATA Timetable

2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017

Proof of Principle

R&D Demonstrator

Construction Phases

Comm.

Demonst.Physics

Phase 1Physics

Phase 2Physics

Full operationPhysics

Well structured organization based on LoIs and MoUs

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2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017

Preparatory phaseInvest: 6.5 M€Effort: 120 FTE

Well structured organization based on LoIs and MoUs

AGATA Cost and Effort

Construction phase Invest: 50 M€ Effort: 100 FTE

OperationCost: < 1 M€

TMR

I3 EURONS

EC FP7

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• Too large for funding within national nuclear structure schemes• Too small for CNI funding in FP7 based on ESFRI criteria• Moving instrument, therefore no governance by any accelerator facility

AGATA Funding

• NUPNET as "natural" funding agency contact• ERANET+ as appropriate funding instrument in FP7• Possibly governance by NuPECC• Operation as independent Research Infrastructure eligible for TNA

support in FP7

AGATA is a moving Research Infrastructure developed, built and operated by a truly European research collaboration

A dedicated funding scheme supporting medium scale European projects is needed