The FOOT (FragmentatiOn Of Target) experiment was proposed to measure double differential nuclear fragmentation cross sections in angle and kinetic energy of the produced fragments in beam-target settings, interesting for hadrontherapy and space radioprotection applications. In particular, FOOT measures projectile and target fragmentations in the kinetic energy range between 200MeV/u and 800MeV/u. In this contribution, differential cross section measurements of a 400MeV/u16O beam on a Carbon and a polyethylene target with data acquired at GSI (Darmstadt, Germany) beam accelerator facility are presented, along with the extraction of the first total fragmentation cross section for a Hydrogen target within the FOOT experiment.
@article{arxiv.2501.03814,
title = {Elemental and angular fragmentation cross section measurements with the FOOT experiment},
author = {M. Dondi and R. Ridolfi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.03814},
year = {2025}
}