학술논문
Charge identification of fragments with the emulsion spectrometer of the FOOT experiment
Document Type
research-article
Author
Galati, Giuliana; Alexandrov, Andrey; Alpat, Behcet; Ambrosi, Giovanni; Argirò, Stefano; Diaz, Raul Arteche; Bartosik, Nazar; Battistoni, Giuseppe; Belcari, Nicola; Bellinzona, Elettra; Biondi, Silvia; Bisogni, Maria Giuseppina; Bruni, Graziano; Carra, Pietro; Cerello, Piergiorgio; Ciarrocchi, Esther; Clozza, Alberto; Colombi, Sofia; Guerra, Alberto Del; De Simoni, Micol; Di Crescenzo, Antonia; Di Ruzza, Benedetto; Donetti, Marco; Dong, Yunsheng; Durante, Marco; Faccini, Riccardo; Ferrero, Veronica; Fiandrini, Emanuele; Finck, Christian; Fiorina, Elisa; Fischetti, Marta; Francesconi, Marco; Franchini, Matteo; Franciosini, Gaia; Galli, Luca; Gentile, Valerio; Giraudo, Giuseppe; Hetzel, Ronja; Iarocci, Enzo; Ionica, Maria; Iuliano, Antonio; Kanxheri, Keida; Kraan, Aafke Christine; Lante, Valeria; La Tessa, Chiara; Laurenza, Martina; Lauria, Adele; Torres, Ernesto Lopez; Marafini, Michela; Massimi, Cristian; Mattei, Ilaria; Mengarelli, Alberto; Moggi, Andrea; Montesi, Maria Cristina; Morone, Maria Cristina; Morrocchi, Matteo; Muraro, Silvia; Murtas, Federica; Pastore, Alessandra; Pastrone, Nadia; Patera, Vincenzo; Pennazio, Francesco; Placidi, Pisana; Pullia, Marco; Raffaelli, Fabrizio; Ramello, Luciano; Ridolfi, Riccardo; Rosso, Valeria; Sanelli, Claudio; Sarti, Alessio; Sartorelli, Gabriella; Sato, Osamu; Savazzi, Simone; Scavarda, Lorenzo; Schiavi, Angelo; Schuy, Christoph; Scifoni, Emanuele; Sciubba, Adalberto; Sécher, Alexandre; Selvi, Marco; Servoli, Leonello; Silvestre, Gianluigi; Sitta, Mario; Spighi, Roberto; Spiriti, Eleuterio; Sportelli, Giancarlo; Stahl, Achim; Tioukov, Valeri; Tomassini, Sandro; Tommasino, Francesco; Toppi, Marco; Traini, Giacomo; Valle, Serena Marta; Vanstalle, Marie; Villa, Mauro; Weber, Ulrich; Zarrella, Roberto; Zoccoli, Antonio; De Lellis, Giovanni
Source
Open Physics. 19(1):383-394
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2391-5471
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 Z\ge 3 fragments and an emulsion spectrometer for Z ≤ 3 Z\le 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 C 2 H 4 {{\rm{C}}}_{2}{{\rm{H}}}_{4} 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.