Program

March 30th

10:00 Start of Registration
14:00-16:00 Session 1
Peter Reiter, Welcome
Planning and simulations of commissioning experiments
A. Gadea, J. Nyberg, Introduction
E. Farnea, Status of AD at LNL and plans for the next ~6 months
F. Recchia, Report on the first AD in-beam commisioning experiment
A. Gadea, Ancillary detectors that (possibly) may be used for in-beam commissioning experiments in the period until end of July 2009
Discussion and short presentations of ideas for experiments
J. Nyberg, Test of neutron-gamma discrimination in AGATA
16:00-16:30 Coffee-Break
16:30-18:00 Session 2
Gamma-ray tracking
Data analysis
O. Stezowski, GammaWare + ADF
C. Theisen, Howto use NARVAL for replaying AGATA data
J. Nyberg, GRID howto


March 31st

9:00-10:35 Session 3
Key experiments and simulations
Marcin Palacz, Introduction
E. Farnea on behalf of D.Montanari, Monte-Carlo simulations of the PRISMA response Function
Ancillary detectors
B. Million, Performance of the HELENA Multiplicity Filter
Mechanics for the demonstrator
J. J. V. Dobon, Introduction
F. Tomasi / S. Coelli, Mechanical Solution to mount the Multiplicity Filter HELENA coupled with the AGATA Demonstrator
Electronics and interfacing to DAQ
P. Bednarczyk, Coupling the AGATA Demonstrator to other detectors: the AGAVA GTS interface
10:35-11:00 Coffee-Break
11:00-12:30 Session 4 Team meeting 1
Detector Module Coupling AGATA with the GSI FRS and Rising Front-end electronics and DAQ
P. Reiter, Status of AGATA triple detectors Andres Gadea
H. Hess, AGATA detector tests at IKP
A. Obertelli, AGATA detector tests at CEA
A. Wiens , Performance of the first three AGATA triple cluster detectors
D. Lersch, The liquid nitrogen monitor
B. Birkenbach, Cross talk correction and space charge distribution
G. Pascovici, AGATA dual core preamplifier
12:30-14:00 Lunch (90 min)
14:00-16:00 Session 5 Team meeting 2
Characterization and PSA codes Slow Control meeting part I
Scanning systems Christoph Theisen
Namita Goel, Pulse shape comparison procedure to characterise position sensitive HPGe detectors. GSI scanner.
Amel Korichi, Current status of the Orsay scanning system, results for S003
Carl Unsworth, Current status of the C001 scanning at Liverpool
Francois Didierjean, Strasbourg scanning table : preliminary tests
Time alignement
Pierre Desesquelles, Chi2 and Kolmogorov-Smirnov methods for time-shift correction.
Fabio Crespi, PSA for extracting timing information from the HPGe experimental signals.
Michael Schlarb, Determination of t0 using a Neural Network
PSA
Michael Schlarb, Application of NN and Particle Swarm to the Cologne experiment
N.A., PSA at Legnaro
16:00-16:30 Coffee-Break
16:30-18:00 Session 6 Team meeting 3
Design and infrastructure Slow Control meeting part II
P. Jones, Recap of infrastructure team work Christoph Theisen
Mechanical design
J. Strachan, Status of AGATA mechanics
Detector support system
C. Veyssiere, Current status of detector support system
I. Kojouharov, Cryogenic autofill for AGATA
Host labs
R. Menegazzo, LNL as host lab for Demonstrator
J. Gerl, Fast beam campaign with AGATA at GSI
C. Domingo Pardo, AGATA MC-Simulations for the fast beam campaign at GSI
18:30-19:30 Team meeting 4
PSA
Pierre Desesquelles
19:30 Reception


April 1st

9:00-10:30 Session 7 Team meeting 5
Front end processing Mechanical design
D. Bazzacco, Front end processing
P. Coleman-Smith, Digitizer status
I. Lazarus, AGATA Pre-processing team report
M. Bellato, GTS and Trigger
N. Karkour, Slow control for the processing mezzanines
D. Bortolato, Controlling the ATCA carrier and the mezzanines
10:30-11:00 Coffee-Break
11:00-12:30 Session 8 Team meeting 6
Data acquisition
Ch. Theisen, DAQ overview
E. Calore, Infrastructure and services overview
L. Legeard, GRU
X. Grave, The Data flow
P. Molini, The Services
D. Mengoni, User libraries: the data-flow algorithms
Demonstration (if technically possible)
12:30-14:00 Lunch (90 min)
14:00-15:30 Session 9 Team meeting 7
Data acquisition - Slow Control AGATA Detector Support System (Infrastructure)
Ch. Theisen, Overview and goals Pete Jones
M. Gulmini, Run Control-Slow Control integration C. Veyssiere, LV, HV tests and results
V. Pucknell, Digitizer updates I. Kojouharov, High voltage and cyrogenic autofill
N. Dosme and N. Karkour, Core and Segment mezzanines SC H. Tobias, Detector support system graphical user interface
15:30-16:00 Coffee-Break
16:00-17:30 Session 10 and end of meeting Team meeting 8
R&D Ge detectors, cryogenics and other gamma-detector arrays Pre-processing
A. Boston, Update on gamma-ray imaging work at Liverpool utilising germanium and czt detectors Dino Bazzacco
Y. Kojouharov, Electrically cooled composite HPGe detectors
T. Engert, Surface characterisation of germanium detectors
W. Korten, P. Nolan, Concluding remarks