LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI LEGNARO
The neutron detector array NEDA is planned for SPES/SPIRAL2 to be used together with GALILEO, EXOGAM2 and AGATA for studies of neutron-deficient nuclei produced in fusion-evaporation reactions. This require efficient algorithms for discrimination between neutron and gamma-ray interactions in the scintillator. To achieve this, several digital algorithms have been studied and shown to give as good, and better, results as analogue electronics. The AGATA array will be used to study the gamma rays emitted from the exotic nuclei produced in nuclear reactions at LNL, GSI/FAIR and SPIRAL2. I March 2009 the first commissioning run of the AGATA system took place at LNL to study, among other things, the position resolution of the AGATA detectors. I will present some of the, recently published, results from this experiment and discuss the future of the very rich data set collected, both in terms of further studies of the AGATA detectors and in terms of possible physics results.

DATA: 08-06-2011