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NUSPIN 2016 Workshop

Dear Colleagues,

please find the Second Circular of the NUSPIN 2016 Workshop to be held in San Servolo, Venice, from June 27th to July 1st, 2016 following this link:

http://pc.cd/zQ2ctalK

Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is May 6th, 2016.

With best regards,

the Organizing Committee

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Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to announce that the Kick-off Workshop of the Nuclear Spectroscopy Instrumentation Network of ENSAR2, NUSPIN 2016, will take place in the island of San Servolo (Venice), Italy, on June 27th - July 1st, 2016 and will host the AGATA Physics Workshop 2016.

Please find in attachment the First Circular and the poster.

Looking forward to seeing you in Venice,

S. Lenzi on behalf of the Organizing Committee

International Nuclear Physics Conference | 11-16 September 2016, Adelaide Convention Centre,... Invitation We are pleased to announce that the 26th International Nuclear Physics Conference (INPC2016) will take place in Adelaide (Australia) from September 11-16, 2016. The 25th INPC was held in Firenze in 2013 and the 24th INPC in Vancouver, Canada, in 2010. The Conference is organized by the Ce…

Registration announcement for the 16th AGATA Week
IFIC-University of Valencia, 22th – 24th September 2015


Dear AGATA collaborator,

This message is to announce the opening of the registration
for the next AGATA week which will be
held at the IFIC-University of Valencia, Spain,
from Tuesday 22th to Thursday 24th September 2015.

The meeting is being organized by the IFIC, the ETSE-University of Valencia
and all the Spanish AGATA community.

The 16th AGATA week registration page, can be found at:


http://indico.ific.uv.es/indico/event/valencia16aw


Please register at your earliest convenience to help us organizing the
event.

The web page includes as well a list of Hotel for helping to book your
accommodation, nevertheless, Valencia is not a large city and,
in case you are interested, we also recommend to book any hotel in
the centre through http://www.booking.com or http://www.tripadvisor.com/ .

On this occasion we are planning to have a dinner altogether. Unfortunately the dinner cannot be sponsored, each participant will have to pay his/her dinner. We will
circulate more details latter.

The preliminary general programme attached, include reports and
the regular working group as well as team meetings.

A more detailed programme will be circulated latter.

Please forward this message to your colleagues interested in the event
that might not be in the AGATA mailing list.

Looking forward to seeing you at the AGATA week,
Best regards

The AMB and the Local Organizers

16th AGATA Week (22-24 September 2015) The program will include the review of the status of the AGATA project and the resource management report. There will be regular working group and team meetings. Reports on the operation of AGATA with the status of the ongoing GANIL campaign, results of the physics campaigns at GSI and LNL, and plan…

A new AGATA paper has been published by M. Senyigit, et al. on "Identification and rejection of scattered neutrons in AGATA"

Identification and rejection of scattered neutrons in AGATA Note to users: Accepted manuscripts are Articles in Press that have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by the Editorial Board of this journal. They have not yet been copy edited and/or formatted in the journal house style, and may not yet have the full ScienceDirect functionality, e.g.,...

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A paper, from the Legnaro campaign, on the lifetimes of excited states in zinc isotopes has just been published in Physical Review C. Great work! http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.87.054302

Phys. Rev. C 87, 054302 (2013): Collective nature of low-lying excitations in ^{70,72,74}Zn from lif C. Louchart1,*, A. Obertelli1, A. Görgen1,†, W. Korten1, D. Bazzacco2, B. Birkenbach3, B. Bruyneel1, E. Clément4, P. J. Coleman-Smith5, L. Corradi6, D. Curien7, G. de Angelis6, G. de France4, J.-P. Delaroche8, A. Dewald3, F. Didierjean7, M. Doncel9, G. Duchêne7, J. Eberth3, M. N. Erduran10, E. Farne...

AGATA paper 3 from the 18th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference: A graphical user interface to communicate with common serial protocols http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6418111

Graphical user interface for serial protocols through a USB link In this work, a graphical user interface to communicate with three common serial protocols is presented. With one tool, the user may be able to control several evaluation boards from different manufacturers or evaluate and program integrated circuits...

AGATA paper 2 from the 18th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference: Characterization of a multiple synchronous registers interface http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6418112

Multiple register synchronization with a high-speed serial link using the Aurora protocol In this work, the development and characterization of a multiple synchronous registers interface communicating with a high-speed serial link and using the Aurora protocol is presented. A detailed description of the developing process and the characte...

AGATA paper 1 from the 18th IEEE-NPSS Real Time Conference: Development of a new control card for the second generation electronics http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6418205

Development of the control card for the digitizers of the second generation electronics of AGATA In this work, the features and development process of the novel control card for the digitizers of AGATA are presented. The board is part of the new hardware proposed for the electronic system of the experiment. In particular, the control card provid...