The 26th AGATA Week and ACC Meeting at the Heavy Ion Laboratory UW

From September 7 to 11, 2026, the Heavy Ion Laboratory of the University of Warsaw hosted the 26th edition of the AGATA Week and AGATA Collaboration Council meeting.

The event was dedicated to the development and research plans related to the AGATA (Advanced GAmma Tracking Array) spectrometer. It is one of the most advanced gamma ray detection systems in the world. The construction of the AGATA array is based on electrically segmented HPGe crystal technology. This allows for precise reconstruction of the deposited gamma-ray energy. The system uses advanced pulse shape analysis and gamma-ray tracking algorithms (www.agata.org).

The conference was divided into two parts:

  • September 7–8: Annual AGATA Collaboration Council (ACC) meeting
  • September 9–11: Technical and scientific sessions, during which participants discussed the technical status of the detector. They also outlined plans for upcoming research campaigns.

Out of 114 participants from around the world, fifteen researchers from Poland took part in the conference. From abroad, we hosted mostly scholars from France (29 people) and Italy (28 people), as well as attendees from the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Croatia, Canada, Slovakia, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Hungary, South Korea, and Australia (some of whom attended remotely).

Meeting details: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/37746/

 

Development of HIL on the Polish Research Infrastructure Roadmap

The project to expand the Warsaw U-200P Cyclotron accelerator complex at the Heavy Ion Laboratory, entitled “POLRIB@HIL: Development of Radioactive-Beam Research at the Heavy Ion Laboratory,” has been included in the list of strategic research infrastructures on the Polish Research Infrastructure Roadmap.

The project aims to upgrade the Heavy Ion Laboratory at the University of Warsaw, enabling it to provide users with radioactive ion beams generated using its two cyclotrons: the U-200P heavy-ion cyclotron and the PETtrace dual-beam proton–deuteron cyclotron. It will also support the effective use of these beams at the Laboratory’s experimental facilities.

Iwona Piętka Awarded

Iwona Piętka received first prize in the poster competition at the 20th biennial Nuclear Structure Conference, proudly hosted by Simon Fraser University and TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada, from July 27 to July 31, 2026.

The award winner is a PhD student working at the Heavy Ion Laboratory under the supervision of Leszek Próchniak and Katarzyna Wrzosek-Lipska. At the conference, she presented the work entitled “Coulomb Excitation of ¹¹⁰Cd Studied with AGATA at LNL.”

The announcement is available on the conference website.

Congratulations!

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