title: Charge identification of fragments with the emulsion spectrometer of the FOOT experiment
Creators: name: Galati, Giuliana
name: Alexandrov, Andrey
name: Alpat, Behcet
name: Ambrosi, Giovanni
name: Argirò, Stefano
name: Arteche Diaz, Raul
name: Bartosik, Nazar
name: Battistoni, Giuseppe
name: Belcari, Nicola
name: Bellinzona, Elettra
name: Biondi, Silvia
name: Bisogni, Maria Giuseppina
name: Bruni, Graziano
name: Carra, Pietro
name: Cerello, Piergiorgio
name: Ciarrocchi, Esther
name: Clozza, Alberto
name: Colombi, Sofia
name: Del Guerra, Alberto
name: De Simoni, Micol
name: Di Crescenzo, Antonia
name: Di Ruzza, Benedetto
name: Donetti, Marco
name: Dong, Yunsheng
name: Durante, Marco
name: Faccini, Riccardo
name: Ferrero, Veronica
name: Fiandrini, Emanuele
name: Finck, Christian
name: Fiorina, Elisa
name: Fischetti, Marta
name: Francesconi, Marco
name: Franchini, Matteo
name: Franciosini, Gaia
name: Galli, Luca
name: Gentile, Valerio
name: Giraudo, Giuseppe
name: Hetzel, Ronja
name: Iarocci, Enzo
name: Ionica, Maria
name: Iuliano, Antonio
name: Kanxheri, Keida
name: Kraan, Aafke Christine
name: Lante, Valeria
name: La Tessa, Chiara
name: Laurenza, Martina
name: Lauria, Adele
name: Torres, Ernesto Lopez
name: Marafini, Michela
name: Massimi, Cristian
name: Mattei, Ilaria
name: Mengarelli, Alberto
name: Moggi, Andrea
name: Montesi, Maria Cristina
name: Morone, Maria Cristina
name: Morrocchi, Matteo
name: Muraro, Silvia
name: Murtas, Federica
name: Pastore, Alessandra
name: Pastrone, Nadia
name: Patera, Vincenzo
name: Pennazio, Francesco
name: Placidi, Pisana
name: Pullia, Marco
name: Raffaelli, Fabrizio
name: Ramello, Luciano
name: Ridolfi, Riccardo
name: Rosso, Valeria
name: Sanelli, Claudio
name: Sarti, Alessio
name: Sartorelli, Gabriella
name: Sato, Osamu
name: Savazzi, Simone
name: Scavarda, Lorenzo
name: Schiavi, Angelo
name: Schuy, Christoph
name: Scifoni, Emanuele
name: Sciubba, Adalberto
name: Sécher, Alexandre
name: Selvi, Marco
name: Servoli, Leonello
name: Silvestre, Gianluigi
name: Sitta, Mario
name: Spighi, Roberto
name: Spiriti, Eleuterio
name: Sportelli, Giancarlo
name: Stahl, Achim
name: Tioukov, Valeri
name: Tomassini, Sandro
name: Tommasino, Francesco
name: Toppi, Marco
name: Traini, Giacomo
name: Valle, Serena Marta
name: Vanstalle, Marie
name: Villa, Mauro
name: Weber, Ulrich
name: Zarrella, Roberto
name: Zoccoli, Antonio
name: De Lellis, Giovanni
Publisher: name: De Gruyter
Year: 2025

description: 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 C₂H₄ 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.