Description
AGATA is the European state-of-the-art high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometer, solely built from highly segmented high-purity Ge detectors. It is capable of measuring gamma rays from a few tens of keV to beyond 10 MeV, with unprecedented efficiency, millimetric position resolution for individual gamma-ray interactions, and very high count-rate capability. AGATA is a collaboration of 13 countries and over 40 research institutes and in the next decade, as it evolves to the full 4π instrument, it will be employed at all major current and near-future European research facilities delivering stable and radioactive ion beams. AGATA, with its unprecedented capabilities, is opening a new high-precision era in nuclear structure studies moving far away from the valley of stability, allowing most stringent tests of the nuclear interaction and state-of-the-art nuclear structure theories.