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The FOOT experiment aims at identifying the fragments produced in the human body during hadrontherapy and at measuring their cross sections. The apparatus is composed of several detectors which allow a complete reconstruction of the tracks of the fragments. In particular, the null null null Δ null null E-TOF detector measures the energy released in a thin plastic scintillator and the time of flight of the fragments. In this work, we report the...