ACTAR is a Joint Research Activity part of the EURONS Integrated Infrastructure Initiative for EUROpean Nuclear Structure research within the 6^th Framework Programme of the European Commission.

It is an R&D project to develop innovative active-target detection systems to study the structure of extremely exotic nuclei using direct reactions in inverse kinematics.

ACTAR Collaboration

CCLRC Daresbury (UK), CEN Bordeaux-Gradignan (France), DAPNIA Saclay (France), GANIL Caen (France), GSI Darmstadt (Germany), University of Birmingham (UK), University of Cracow (Poland), University of Liverpool (UK), University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

• Physics Motivation
• Detector Concept