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| 14 | </h2></div></div></div><div class="qandaset"><table border="0" summary="Q and A Set"><col align="left" width="1%"><tbody><tr class="question"><td align="left" valign="top"><a name="qanda.PhysicsCuts.HowProdCuts"></a><a name="id554957"></a><b>Q:</b></td><td align="left" valign="top"><p> |
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| 15 | How do production cuts (in range) work in Geant4 ? Are they also used |
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| 16 | in tracking ? If a particle has an energy lower than the converted cut |
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| 17 | in energy for the given material and the distance to the next boundary |
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| 18 | is smaller than the cut in range, is the particle killed ? |
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| 20 | Geant4 does <span class="bold"><strong>NOT</strong></span> have a "tracking cut". |
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| 21 | The toolkit's default behaviour is to track particles down to zero range |
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| 22 | (i.e. zero energy). Of course, it is possible for the user to create and |
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| 23 | register a process that kills particles below a certain energy or range; |
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| 24 | this is however <span class="bold"><strong>NOT</strong></span> provided by default |
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| 25 | in Geant4. So there's <span class="bold"><strong>NO</strong></span> "tracking cut". |
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| 26 | For example, suppose a particle that is nearing zero energy will at some |
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| 27 | point be proposed by its Ionisation process to undergo one final step, |
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| 28 | from its current energy down to zero energy. This is still only a |
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| 29 | proposal. If during this step the particle crosses a boundary, then the |
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| 30 | transportation will limit the step at a length smaller than the |
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| 31 | Ionisation -- so the particle will still see and cross the relevant |
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| 32 | boundary, and another step will occur on the other side of that boundary. |
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| 33 | In summary the "production threshold" range and its equivalent in energy |
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| 34 | are not utilised as a "tracking cut". A particle is not abandoned by |
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| 35 | Geant4 below a certain range/energy unless the user registers a process |
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| 36 | to do this by him/her-self. |
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