We are pleased to announce the Eighth Pre-PAC Workshop for the AGATA physics campaign at the Legnaro National Laboratories (LNL). The workshop will take place on July 8–10, 2026 and will be held in person, with the possibility of online participation.
This Pre-PAC Workshop will be the first one to consider projects for the zero-degree configuration of AGATA. The zero-degree campaign will be divided into two main sub-campaigns, in which AGATA will first be coupled to the neutron detector array NEDA, followed by a campaign coupling AGATA with the PARIS phoswich detector array.
The forthcoming LNL PAC meeting is planned for fall 2026 and will evaluate experiments to be performed from early 2027 until the end of July 2027. AGATA is expected to consist of a minimum of 10 triple clusters; depending on the availability of the new electronics this number may increase.
The NEDA array will be composed of the 54 available modules, read out with the NUMEXO2 electronics, in a configuration identical to that used at GANIL during the 2018 campaign.
The PARIS array will be composed of 10 clusters made of 9 detectors. The array will be placed at forward angles and distributed over two rings. PARIS can be used as a high-energy gamma ray detector and/or as a multiplicity filter. The drawing of the setup, the full peak efficiency of PARIS and fold-multiplicity response can be found in http://paris.ifj.edu.pl/articles.php?lng=en&pg=197.
For mechanical reasons, PARIS and NEDA cannot be used at the same time.
Aim of the Workshop
The aim of the Pre-PAC Workshop is to assist the spokespersons in presenting the strongest possible cases for their proposals, through discussion of the physics to be investigated and assessment of the feasibility of the proposed experiments . To optimize the time attributed to the two sub-campaigns, we will discuss the LoIs for both the AGATA-NEDA and AGATA-PARIS configurations. Any new project must be presented at a Pre-PAC workshop before being submitted to the LNL PAC.
Letters of Intent (LoIs)
LoIs should be submitted by June 20, 2026.
They are expected to include, in a pdf file, a title, a short abstract with a description of the physics case and the experimental setup, information on beam (energy, intensity), target(s), and a justified request of beam time.
We warmly recommend the LoI spokespersons to contact as soon as possible the experts of the complementary equipment they intend to use.
Contact Persons for the complementary instrumentations
Ancillary instrumentation coordinator: Daniele Mengoni (daniele.mengoni@pd.infn.it)
- EUCLIDES: F. Simioni (federico.simioni.AT.phd.unipd.it)
- SAURON: D. Stramaccioni (damiano.stramaccioni.AT.lnl.infn.it)
- AGATrace: G. Andreetta (giuseppe.andreetta.AT.lnl.infn.it), S. Capra (stefano.capra.AT.unimi.it)
- SPIDER: Naomi Marchini (naomi.marchini.AT.fi.infn.it), T. La Marca (tommaso.lamarca.AT.fi.infn.it)
- DANTE: B. Gongoras (benito.gongora.AT.lnl.infn.it)
- PARIS / gamma‑ray scintillators: A. Giaz (agnese.giaz.AT.mi.infn.it), F. Camera (franco.camera.AT.mi.infn.it)
- NEDA: B. Greaves (greaves.AT.lnl.infn.it)
- Plunger: J. Benito (Jaime.Benito.AT.lnl.infn.it)
Magda Zielińska
Alain Goasduff