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---+ Wiki Home Page of the FOOT experiment <br />%TOC% ---++ The FOOT experiment The study of nuclear fragmentation plays a central role in many important applications: from the study of Particle Therapy (PT) up to radiation protection for space (RPS) missions and the design of shielding for nuclear reactors. The <a href="https://web.infn.it/foot/en/sample-page/" target="_blank">FOOT</a> (FragmentatiOn Of Target) experiment aims to study the nuclear reactions that describe the interactions with matter of different light ions (like 1H , 4He , 12C , 16O) of interest for such applications (energy range ~ [100,800] MeV /u), performing double differential fragmentation cross section measurements in the energy range of interest for PT and RPS. <div title="Page 1"> In Charged Particle Therapy (PT) proton or 12C beams are used to treat deep-seated solid tumors exploiting the advantageous characteristics of charged particles energy deposition in matter. For such projectiles, the maximum of the dose is released at the end of the beam range, in the Bragg peak region, where the tumour is located. However, the nuclear interactions of the beam nuclei with the patient tissues can induce the fragmentation of projectiles and/or target nuclei and needs to be carefully taken into account when planning the treatment. In proton treatments, the target fragmentation produces low energy, short range fragments along all the beam path, that deposit a non-negligible dose especially in the first crossed tissues. On the other hand, in treatments performed using 12C, or other (4He or 16O) ions of interest, the main concern is related to the production of long range fragments that can release their dose in the healthy tissues beyond the Bragg peak. Understanding nuclear fragmentation processes is of interest also for radiation protection in human space flight applications, in view of deep space missions. In particular 4He and high-energy charged particles, like 12C, 16O, 28Si and 56Fe, provide the main source of absorbed dose in astronauts outside the atmosphere. The nuclear fragmentation properties of the materials used to build the spacecrafts need to be known with high accuracy in order to optimise the shielding against the space radiation. The study of the impact of these processes, which is of interest both for PT and space radioprotection applications, suffers at present from the limited experimental precision achieved on the relevant nuclear cross sections that compromise the reliability of the available computational models. The <a href="https://web.infn.it/foot/en/sample-page/" target="_blank">FOOT</a> international collaboration, composed of researchers from France, Germany, Italy and Japan, designed an experiment to study these nuclear processes and measure the corresponding fragmentation cross sections. </div> ---++ FOOT data takings GSI 2019 data taking: [[FOOTGsiApril2019][The dedicated page can be found here]]. Available information about runs, statistics, dataset for: * <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BrC6g3he5Dn45SjWUoM0-ye2mSaH8eRHfAKKKWhFl7E/edit#gid=0" target="_blank">GSI 2021 data taking</a> * <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CtZIqu8iBGqdqXZfifwKUR5XZ_55dOm6IX6xuGRzhtM/edit#gid=0" target="_blank">HIT 2022 data taking</a> * <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qmClhV2uOSJfR20JGD8YsXwlUtLlIKTE81aQMst_Gj8/edit#gid=0" target="_blank">CNAO 2022 data taking</a> * <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXIpbGU17Md3lPDg64Upzpo3QN122QasiariO2UONkM/edit#gid=1129013006" target="_blank" title="CNAO2023 Data Taking">CNAO 2023 data taking</a> The location on Tier-1 of the Raw data and the Monte Carlo simulated data can be found in: <a href="Data20in20Tier-1" target="_blank" title="FOOT Data Sets">Data Location in Tier1</a> ---++ [[Data%20in%20Tier-1][The FOOT Software project]] The software tools are documented in several dedicated pages. A <a href="FOOTSoftware" target="_blank" title="FOOT software page">dedicated page</a> is documenting how to access the software, installing, running it and contribute to its development. A page is documenting the <a href="FOOTSimulation" target="_blank" title="FOOT Simulation page">simulation software</a> and another one the<a href="FOOTAvailableSimulation" target="_blank" title="FOOT Available Simulation"> available MC simulations.</a> A page is documenting the <a href="FOOTReconstruction" target="_blank" title="FOOT reconstruction">reconstruction software</a> (both for data and MC events). -- %USERSIG{AlessioSarti - 2016-07-06}% ---++ Comments <br />%COMMENT%
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