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Title	Measurement of Fragment Production Cross Sections in the $^{12}$C+$^{12}$C and $^{12}$C+$^{197}$Au Reactions at 62 $A$ MeV for Hadrontherapy and Space Radiation Protection
Author(s)	Tropea, S (Catania U. ; INFN, LNS) ; De Napoli, M (INFN, Catania) ; Agodi, C (INFN, LNS ; INFN, Rome ; Rome U.) ; Blancato, A A (Catania U.) ; Bondì, M (Catania U. ; INFN, LNS) ; Cappuzzello, F (Catania U. ; INFN, LNS) ; Carbone, D (Catania U. ; INFN, LNS) ; Cavallaro, M (INFN, LNS) ; Cirrone, G A P (INFN, Catania) ; Cuttone, G (INFN, LNS) ; Giacoppo, F (Bern U., LHEP) ; Nicolosi, D (INFN, LNS) ; Pandola, L (Gran Sasso) ; Raciti, G (Catania U. ; INFN, Catania) ; Rapisarda, E (CERN) ; Romano, F (Bari Polytechnic ; INFN, Bari) ; Sardina, D ; Scuderi, V (INFN, Catania) ; Sfienti, C (Mainz U., Inst. Kernphys.)
Publication	2014
Number of pages	5
In:	Acta Phys. Pol. B 45 (2014) 565
In:	33rd Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics: Frontiers in Nuclear Physics, Piaski, Poland, 1 - 7 Sep 2013, pp.565
DOI	10.5506/APhysPolB.45.565
Subject category	Nuclear Physics - Experiment
Abstract	Over the last twenty years, there has been a renewed interest in nuclear fragmentation studies for both hadrontherapy applications and space radiation protection. In both fields, fragmentation cross sections are needed to predict the effects of the ions nuclear interactions within the patient’s and the astronaut’s body. Indeed, the Monte Carlo codes used in planning tumor treatments and space missions must be tuned and validated by experimental data. However, only a limited set of fragmentation cross sections are available in literature, especially at Fermi energies. Therefore, we have studied the production of secondary fragments in the 12 C+ 12 C and 12 C+ 197 Au reactions at 62 A MeV. In this work, the measured 4 He cross sections angular distributions at four selected angles are presented and compared.

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