1. EGAN FEE synergy Working Group PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

2. Coordination and synergy-building in the European Complementary Detectors community EGAN network tasks in the new ENSAR proposal PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

3. A bit of history: The Ancillary / Complementary detector community was one of the first to have a coordination group and EU funds for coordination and synergy building during EUROBALL period. 1994 – 1996 Conveners: Arne Johson and Örjan Skeppstedt Early meetings to create synergies among groups designing ancillary detectors for EUROBALL 1996 – 2003 Convener: Hubert Grawe Publication of the EUROBALL Ancillary Detectors booklet 2003 – 2004 Convener: Andres Gadea  Several Ancillary detectors included in the GammaPool Inside the AGATA project: 2003 – 2010 W.G. Chairperson Andres Gadea 2010 – present W.G. Chairperson Enrico Farnea PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

4. Current situation New RIB facilities require the development of experimental techniques and detectors design and construction or upgrade of complementary instrumentation Synergy building and coordination in the community is essential and EGAN is an appropriate forum to create synergies among the groups developing complementary instrumentation Several arrays are active in our community (AGATA, EXOGAM, MINIBALL, GammaPool ones, etc … and their scientific production is mainly due to their coupling with ancillary detectors New large Ge  -arrays are being build (AGATA) or upgraded (EXOGAM2) and several others are active in our community (also those related to the GammaPool (GALILEO)) PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

5. Purpose: ensure the maximum compatibility and versatility minimizing the impact of ancillary detectors on the performances of large Ge arrays coordination in the construction and upgrade of ancillary devices will allow: – the integration of the data acquisition and electronics, – the integration of the mechanics (mechanical design compatibility) – collaboration on the Monte-Carlo simulations of the physics cases. PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

6. EGAN (ENSAR) TASK 2: Coordination on Ancillary Instrumentation Subtasks as activity of Working Groups Subtask 1: Activity of WG1: Co-operation on the use, design and construction of ancillary detectors to improve the performance and compatibility of the devices. Subtask 2: Activity of WG2: Co-operation on designing and building the electronics and data acquisition and on the mechanical integration. Subtask 3: Activity of WG3: Exchange of information on the development of simulation tools. PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

7. Idea behind the subtasks: 1) exchange of information between the groups involved in the design and construction of ancillary detectors: to optimize the use of present resources and to improve the performance and compatibility of devices presently in the R&D phase. 2) exchange of information between groups responsible of the electronics, data acquisition coordination for the construction of common component. Exchange of information for mechanical integration and mechanical compatibility. 3) exchange of information between groups working on the development of simulation tools for the optimization of the detector design. PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

8. Detectors for new generation RIB facilities Light Charged Particle detectors, Neutron detectors, Position Sensitive Heavy Ions detectors, Recoil detectors and binary reaction product detectors, Time measurement RDDS devices, Fast electronic timing detectors, High Energy Gamma detectors, Tagging detectors, Conversion electron filters and detectors.. etc… Goal is to Disseminate Information on availability and capabilities of detectors and on new tools of simulation PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

9. Subtask 2: Activity of WG2: Co-operation on designing and building the electronics and data acquisition Interfacing analogue electronics with the Digital electronics arrays Development of digital electronics High analogue/digital channel densities (ASICS) Participation in the trigger decision trees PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

10. Analogue vs Digital Electronics Detector (Germanium) Detector (Germanium) Shaping Amplifier CFD DAQ E t FADC MWD DCFD Filters DAQ E t ADC TDC PSA Tracking E t x,y,z E t Standard Arrays DIGITAL SegmentDetectorArray Detector (Germanium) Detector (Germanium)

11. AGAVA VME card AGATA GTS transceiver FPGA VIRTEX 2 VME backplane connector Optolink to GTS Ethernet IFJ-PAN, Kraków & INFN-Milano PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

12. HELENA & TRACE VME Front-End Electronics V785: 32 channels ADC V878: 32 channels ADC 6 ADC’s V775: 32 channels TDC V879: 32 channels TDC 5 TDC’s Struck board with optical link with DSP & Memory Based on KMAX in a Windows Environment Trace E &  E channels = 120 Trace Timing channels = 120 HELENA Fast channels = 27 HELENA Slow channels = 27 HELENA Timing channels = 27 ______________________________ ≈ 330 V812: 16 channels CFD V560: 16 channels Scalers V1495: 128 channels Scalers SIS3100SIS3100 AGAVAAGAVA HELENASLOWHELENASLOW TRACEETRACEE TRACEETRACEE HELENAFASTHELENAFAST TRACETIMEETRACETIMEE TRACE TIME ETRACE TIME E HELENATIMEHELENATIME V812CFDV812CFD V560SCALERV560SCALER V1495SCALERV1495SCALER VMEVME 3 Big LaBr 3 E 1, E 2 & T = 9 PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

13. AGATA DAQ: NARVAL IPN-Orsay, CSNSM-Orsay INFN-LNL,GANIL, IFJ-PAN-Crakow, IPN-Lyon Advanced Data Flow system developed in ADA Root GUI for analysis NARVAL Producer Front End Electronics NARVAL Producer Front End Electronics Pre Processing Pulse Shape Analysis Event Building Tracking Consumer AGATA Crystal NARVAL Producer Complementary detectors NARVAL Producer Complementary detectors RUN GUI

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15. Opened “details” Agava board proliferation one Agava board per several VME crate ?? Participation in the trigger decision trees use of standard analogue CFD’s ?? send samples or local elaboration ?? Interfacing analogue-to-digital Interfacing digital-to-digital Interfacing analogue-to-digital Development of sampling board for ancillary detectors get the 100MHz clock from AGAVA PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

16. EGAN Working Group (subtask2): has been already created Johan Nyberg (Univ. Uppsala) Sergio Brambilla(INFN, Univ. Milano) Francesco Recchia (INFN, Univ. Padova) Andrea Triossi (INFN, Univ. Padova) Daniele Mengoni (INFN, Univ. Padova) Jose Javier Valiente Dobon (INFN-LNL Legnaro) Miroslaw Zieblinski (IFJ-PAN Cracow) Adam Czermak (IFJ-PAN Cracow) Piotr Bednarczyk (IFJ-PAN Cracow) Adam Maj (IFJ-PAN Cracow) Didier Beaumel (IPNO Orsay) Diego Barrientos (IFIC Valencia) Victor Modamio (INFN-LNL Legnaro) Marcin Palacz (HIL, Univ. Warsaw) Jan Mierzejewski (HIL, Univ. Warsaw) Pawel J. Napiorkowski (HIL, Univ. Warsaw) Andres Gadea (IFIC Valencia) Suggestion are welcome PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

17. On behalf of the European Gamma and Ancillary Detector Network, I would like to invite PhD students and young researchers to attend the EGAN school to be held at the University of Liverpool from 5th to 9th December 2011. The aim of the school is to provide training and hands on experience in the use of state of the art gamma-ray detector systems. The workshop will focus on the use of highly segmented germanium detector systems, pulse shape analysis and the analysis of data from the AGATA spectrometer Next EGAN Working Group Meeting: Together with the EGAN Workshop next year Thank you PROMETEO Workshop on Front-End Electronics for gamma and complementary detector systems 17-18 November 2011I IFIC – Valencia (Spain)

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