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SUMMARY:FOOT: a nuclear physics experiment focused on Particle theraphy an
 d Radioprotection in Space
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190624T080000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190624T082500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Vincenzo Patera (Universita' di Rome "Sapienza" e IN
 FN)\nParticle therapy uses proton or 12C beams to treat deep-seated solid 
 tumors\, and due to the advantageous characteristics of charged particles 
 energy deposition in matter\, the maximum of the dose is released to the t
 umor at the end of the beam range\, in the Bragg peak region. However\, th
 e beam nuclear interactions with the patient tissues induces fragmentation
  both of projectile and target nuclei and needs to be carefully taken into
  account. In proton treatments\, the target fragmentation can induce low e
 nergy\, short range fragments along all the beam path\, that may deposit a
  non negligible dose in the entry channel. On the other hand in 12C treatm
 ents the main concern is long range fragments produced by projectile fragm
 entation that release their dose in the healthy tissues. \n\nThe FOOT expe
 riment (FragmentatiOn Of Target) is designed to study these processes. Tar
 get ( O and 12C nuclei) fragmentation induced by 150-250 MeV proton beams 
 will be studied via an inverse kinematic approach\, where 16O and 12C ther
 apeutic beams collide on graphite and hydrocarbon targets to provide the n
 uclear fragmentation cross section on hydrogen. Increasing the beam energy
  to 300-400 MeV/nucleon also the projectile fragmentation of these beams w
 ill be explored. Such a detector will also be able to study the interactio
 n of light nuclei (4He\, 12C and 16O) with kinetic energy of 800 MeV/nucle
 on with graphite and hydrocarbon targets\, of interest for radioprotection
  in space. \nThe FOOT collaboration (France\, Germany\, Japan\, Italy) sta
 rted to design an experimental setup made of an interaction region with be
 am monitor and start counter\, a magnetic spectrometer for the fragments m
 omentum measurement\, a thin plastic scintillator for ΔE and time of flig
 ht measurements and a BGO calorimeter to measure fragment kinetic energy. 
 The information provided will be combined in order to identify the charge 
 and isotopic number of the fragments. This detector will be paired by a se
 tup where specific emulsion chamber will be coupled to the FOOT interactio
 n region to measure the production in graphite and polyethylene target of 
 light charged fragments as protons\, deuterons\, tritons and Helium nuclei
 .\n\nhttps://indico.koza.if.uj.edu.pl/event/1/contributions/80/
LOCATION:Collegium Maius
URL:https://indico.koza.if.uj.edu.pl/event/1/contributions/80/
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