Charge identification of fragments with the emulsion spectrometer of the FOOT experiment

Giuliana Galati, Andrey Alexandrov, Behcet Alpat, Giovanni Ambrosi, Stefano Argirò, Raul Arteche Diaz, Nazar Bartosik, Giuseppe Battistoni, Nicola Belcari, Elettra Bellinzona, Silvia Biondi, Maria Giuseppina Bisogni, Graziano Bruni, Pietro Carra, Piergiorgio Cerello, Esther Ciarrocchi, Alberto Clozza, Sofia Colombi, Alberto Del Guerra, Micol De SimoniAntonia Di Crescenzo, Benedetto Di Ruzza, Marco Donetti, Yunsheng Dong, Marco Durante, Riccardo Faccini, Veronica Ferrero, Emanuele Fiandrini, Christian Finck, Elisa Fiorina, Marta Fischetti, Marco Francesconi, Matteo Franchini, Gaia Franciosini, Luca Galli, Valerio Gentile, Giuseppe Giraudo, Ronja Hetzel, Enzo Iarocci, Maria Ionica, Antonio Iuliano, Keida Kanxheri, Aafke Christine Kraan, Valeria Lante, Chiara La Tessa, Martina Laurenza, Adele Lauria, Ernesto Lopez Torres, Michela Marafini, Cristian Massimi, Ilaria Mattei, Alberto Mengarelli, Andrea Moggi, Maria Cristina Montesi, Maria Cristina Morone, Matteo Morrocchi, Silvia Muraro, Federica Murtas, Alessandra Pastore, Nadia Pastrone, Vincenzo Patera, Francesco Pennazio, Pisana Placidi, Marco Pullia, Fabrizio Raffaelli, Luciano Ramello, Riccardo Ridolfi, Valeria Rosso, Claudio Sanelli, Alessio Sarti, Gabriella Sartorelli, Osamu Sato, Simone Savazzi, Lorenzo Scavarda, Angelo Schiavi, Christoph Schuy, Emanuele Scifoni, Adalberto Sciubba, Alexandre Sécher, Marco Selvi, Leonello Servoli, Gianluigi Silvestre, Mario Sitta, Roberto Spighi, Eleuterio Spiriti, Giancarlo Sportelli, Achim Stahl, Valeri Tioukov, Sandro Tomassini, Francesco Tommasino, Marco Toppi, Giacomo Traini, Serena Marta Valle, Marie Vanstalle, Mauro Villa, Ulrich Weber, Roberto Zarrella, Antonio Zoccoli, Giovanni De Lellis

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Abstract

The FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) experiment is an international project designed to carry out the fragmentation cross-sectional measurements relevant for charged particle therapy (CPT), a technique based on the use of charged particle beams for the treatment of deep-seated tumors. The FOOT detector consists of an electronic setup for the identification of Z ≥ 3 fragments and an emulsion spectrometer for Z ≤ 3 fragments. The first data taking was performed in 2019 at the GSI facility (Darmstadt, Germany). In this study, the charge identification of fragments induced by exposing an emulsion detector, embedding a C2 H4 target, to an oxygen ion beam of 200 MeV/n is discussed. The charge identification is based on the controlled fading of nuclear emulsions in order to extend their dynamic range in the ionization response.

Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)383-394
Numero di pagine12
RivistaOpen Physics
Volume19
Numero di pubblicazione1
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 1 gen 2021

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