Heavy ions fragmentations measurements at intermediate energies in hadrontherapy and spatial vehicles shielding

The study of the nuclear fragmentation process involves many fields of interest, from the hadrontherapy, the new frontier for cancer therapy, to the spatial vehicles shielding design, to work safely in space with acceptable risks from galactic cosmic ray. Indeed, the measure of the fragmentation cross sections is an important information to estimate how this process modifies dose distributions and biological effectiveness. At present, simulations with analytical codes are used to deal with these problems. Such approach presents considerable uncertainty, especially because of a reduced number of experimental data, both on the fragmentation cross sections and on the different radiation biological effectiveness. All these reasons claimed more fragmentation cross section data, in a wide energy range and with different ions and materials.