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| 2 | Geant4 9.3 - patch-01 Release Notes
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| 3 | -----------------------------------
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| 4 |
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| 5 | 9 April 2010
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| 6 |
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| 7 | List of fixes included in this public patch since the public release 9.3:
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| 8 |
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| 9 | o Configuration:
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| 10 | -------------
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| 11 | + Configure script:
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| 12 | o Corrected settings of LD_LYBRARY_PATH for CLHEP for the case of static
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| 13 | libraries build selection (path was set only for the dynamic libraries
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| 14 | case...).
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| 15 | o Corrected detection of Qt modules on MacOSX.
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| 16 | Addressing problem report #1095.
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| 17 | + binmake.gmk: removed extra space characters in definition of TARGOBJEXT,
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| 18 | fixing issue with target for main() not being rebuilt according to
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| 19 | dependencies change. Addressing problem report #1098.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | o Event:
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| 22 | -----
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| 23 | + Minor changes to G4GeneralParticleSourceMessenger to now use full range
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| 24 | of predefined units for length, energy and angle.
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| 25 | + Fixed gcc-4.4.0 compilation warning message for non-initialised variable
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| 26 | in G4SPSEneDistribution.
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| 27 |
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| 28 | o Geometry:
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| 29 | --------
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| 30 | + management:
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| 31 | o Fixed initialisation of min/max extent for mother and target volumes
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| 32 | in method BuildNodes() of G4SmartVoxelHeader.
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| 33 | + navigation:
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| 34 | o Avoid unnecessary creation of debug string in G4PropagatorInField.
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| 35 | Also printout reformatting.
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| 36 | + solids/specific:
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| 37 | o Adopt caching of Phi in G4PolyconeSide and G4PolyhedraSide to avoid
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| 38 | unnecessary consecutive computations on the same point.
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| 39 | o Use kInfinity for initialising minimum and maximum allowed extent for
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| 40 | G4SolidExtentList of faceted solids.
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| 41 | + volumes:
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| 42 | o Adopt assign() within copy-constructor of G4NavigationHistory.
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| 43 | Should provide slight performance improvement.
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| 44 |
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| 45 | o Global:
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| 46 | ------
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| 47 | + G4PhysicsLogVector, G4PhysicsLnVector, G4PhysicsLinearVector: preserve
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| 48 | values of 'edgeMin' and 'edgeMax' in constructors avoiding recomputation,
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| 49 | to avoid precision problem; fixes problem detected on Windows/VC++.
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| 50 | + Moved 'mem' pool in G4Allocator to public section, to allow for use of
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| 51 | allocator in vectors on Windows/C++.
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| 52 | + Changed date for patch-01 to release 9.3.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | o Materials:
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| 55 | ---------
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| 56 | + G4OpticalSurface: removed left-over debug test function OverWrite()
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| 57 | from header.
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| 58 |
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| 59 | o Persistency (GDML):
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| 60 | ------------------
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| 61 | + Added missing reference attribute in G4GDMLWriteMaterials for dumping
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| 62 | of materials property vectors. Increased string buffer in G4GDMLWrite.
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| 63 | Addressing problem report #1104.
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| 64 | + Corrected import of surface properties in G4GDMLReadSolids for the case
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| 65 | of recursive read of files.
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| 66 | + Added IsValid() method to parser to verify if variable/constant/quantity
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| 67 | is defined and is valid. Added const qualifier to reader accessors in
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| 68 | parser.
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| 69 |
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| 70 | o Low-energy Electromagnetic Processes:
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| 71 | ------------------------------------
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| 72 | + Modified hydrogen correction in G4DNARuddIonisation.
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| 73 | + Re-added vapor water shell constants to G4DNARuddIonisationModel
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| 74 | and modified electron correction.
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| 75 | + Extended low energy cover of G4DNA charge change processes
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| 76 | + Improved way of testing material in Geant4-DNA models.
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| 77 | + Fixed initialisation of 'atomTotalCrossSection' in
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| 78 | G4hShellCrossSectionDoubleExp.
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| 79 |
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| 80 | o Standard Electromagnetic Processes:
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| 81 | ----------------------------------
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| 82 | + High Energy:
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| 83 | o G4mplIonisation: fixed IsApplicable() method, now returning always
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| 84 | "true". Addresses a problem report by CMS about crashes in the case
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| 85 | when several types of monopoles are instantiated.
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| 86 | + Standard:
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| 87 | o G4CoulombScatteringModel: added comments to relativistic formula.
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| 88 | o G4eCoulombScatteringModel: added method SetLowEnergyLimit().
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| 89 | o G4CoulombScattering: removed inlined method SetBuildTableFlag()
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| 90 | hiding implementation in the base class.
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| 91 | o G4PolarizedComptonScattering: added message for obsolete process.
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| 92 | o Use data for Oxygen (G4_O) from ICRU'49 instead NIST for alpha stopping
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| 93 | power. Fixes problem of data corruption when such material is used.
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| 94 | + Utils:
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| 95 | o G4EmCorrections: added protection against large Barkas and Bloch
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| 96 | corrections in the case of large negatively charged particle
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| 97 | (Q^2 > 50); addresses problem of simulation of highly charged
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| 98 | exotic particles reported by ATLAS.
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| 99 | o Code cleanup in G4EmCalculator.
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| 100 | o G4VEmProcess: added protection against negative cross section.
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| 101 | Moved SetBuildTableFlag() method from protected to public.
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| 102 | Fixed problem for ion processes by adding pointer to 'currentParticle'
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| 103 | which may be different from generic ion.
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| 104 | o G4VEnergyLossProcess: added protection against negative cross
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| 105 | section, and improved logic in RetrieveTable() method.
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| 106 | o Reordered inline methods and improved comments in classes G4VEmModel,
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| 107 | G4VEmProcess, G4VEnergyLossProcess, G4VMultipleScattering and
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| 108 | G4LossTableManager.
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| 109 |
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| 110 | o Hadronic Processes:
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| 111 | ------------------
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| 112 | + cross_sections:
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| 113 | o G4CrossSectionDataSetRegistry: do not pop_back vector of pointers
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| 114 | when deregistering cross-section data set; addresses problem detected
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| 115 | on Windows/VC++.
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| 116 | o G4UPiNuclearCrossSection: fixed bug for high Z (>83) atoms.
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| 117 | o Cache computation of std::pow() in GetCaptureCrossSection() method of
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| 118 | G4HadronCrossSections, avoiding repeated calls with same argument.
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| 119 | + models/cascade:
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| 120 | o G4InteractionCase: minor change in initialisation in constructor to
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| 121 | allow for porting on C++0x Standard.
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| 122 | + models/CHIPS:
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| 123 | o Correction of mass in G4Quasmon, and fix of memory corruption in mass
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| 124 | calculation;
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| 125 | o Tuning of parameters and fixed bug in CHIPS fragmentation.
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| 126 | + models/de_excitation:
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| 127 | o G4ExcitationHandler: activated Fermi-BreakUp by setting limits to the
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| 128 | default values (Z=9 and A=17) for this model.
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| 129 | + models/high_energy:
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| 130 | o Fixed segmentation fault in G4HEKaonZeroLongInelastic and
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| 131 | G4HEKaonZeroShortInelastic due to local instantiation and subsequent
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| 132 | deletion of the K0 and anti-K0 models. As added feature, the production
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| 133 | of K0 and anti-K0 outside the nucleus is now prohibited.
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| 134 | + models/management:
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| 135 | o G4HadronicInteractionRegistry: do not pop_back vector of pointers
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| 136 | when deregistering cross-section data set; addresses problem detected
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| 137 | on Windows/VC++.
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| 138 | + models/neutron_hp:
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| 139 | o Add 'Ignore' and 'Enable' methods for on-flight Doppler broadening
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| 140 | in G4NeutronHPElasticData, G4NeutronHPInelasticData and
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| 141 | G4NeutronHPCaptureData, which can now be set from the physics-lists.
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| 142 | + models/pre_equilibrium:
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| 143 | o Added protections for numerical computations to G4PreCompoundEmission.
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| 144 |
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| 145 | o Generic Processes:
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| 146 | -----------------
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| 147 | + Cuts:
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| 148 | o Fix in G4ProductionCutTable to solve problems with zero range for
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| 149 | protons.
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| 150 | + Optical:
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| 151 | o Fixed problem of initialization of 'PropertyPointers', now set to
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| 152 | NULL at the start of PostStepDoIt(). Addresses problem report #1094.
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| 153 |
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| 154 | o Physics Lists:
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| 155 | -------------
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| 156 | + QBBC: fixed hadron inelastic configuration; instantiated
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| 157 | G4PreCompoundModel and its pointer propagated to all high energy models.
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| 158 | Use CHIPS for anti-protons to fix crash in FTF.
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| 159 |
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| 160 | o Track:
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| 161 | -----
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| 162 | + Replace string data member to a pointer in G4VUserTrackInformation
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| 163 | for property to indicate type of UserTrackInformation; helps in reducing
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| 164 | unnecessary memory churn reported by CMS.
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| 165 | + Modified G4VUserTrackInformation::Print() method from pure-virtual to
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| 166 | simple virtual.
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| 167 |
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| 168 | o Tracking:
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| 169 | --------
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| 170 | + G4RichTrajectory: Fixed bug in MergeTrajectory(), to not invoke
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| 171 | G4Trajectory::MergeTrajectory().
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| 172 | + G4RichTrajectory and G4RichTrajectoryPoint: eliminated spaces in
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| 173 | G4AttValue values; G4AttValue() values are "None" for attributes
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| 174 | derived from zero pointers.
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| 175 |
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| 176 | o Visualization:
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| 177 | -------------
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| 178 | + gMocren: fixed file-I/O bug in G4GMocrenFileViewer and G4GMocrenIO;
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| 179 | fix in G4GMocrenFileSceneHandler to allow for porting on C++0x Standard,
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| 180 | also use G4 types in consistent way. Removed debug code with printout.
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| 181 |
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| 182 | o Examples:
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| 183 | --------
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| 184 | + Migrated physics-lists to use particle-based multiple-scattering
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| 185 | wherever necessary, and updated reference outputs.
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| 186 | + advanced/microbeam:
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| 187 | o Added density initialisation in MicrobeamPhantomConfiguration and
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| 188 | changed material/density selection.
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| 189 | + advanced/microdosimetry:
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| 190 | o Disable use of G4UItcsh on Windows.
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| 191 | + advanced/underground_physics:
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| 192 | o Physics list migrated from LowEnergy processes to the new Livermore
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| 193 | models. Physics results unchanged for gamma/e-. Possible differences
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| 194 | with ions/protons.
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| 195 | o Corrected analysis-manager to solve a problem with the HBOOK output
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| 196 | files (ntuples not filled, histograms not saved).
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| 197 | Get rid of a warning message and allocation problems with ntuple2.
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| 198 | + extended/field/field04:
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| 199 | o Fixed compilation error on Windows in F04RunAction.
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| 200 | + extended/hadronic/Hadr01:
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| 201 | o Fixed problem of counting of particles leaked from the target.
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| 202 | o When PhysList defined via PHYSLIST environment variable still
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| 203 | make local PhysList messenger available to avoid crash in old macro.
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| 204 | + extended/optical/wls:
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| 205 | o Added missing initialization macro init.in.
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| 206 | o Replaced use of 2*M_PI with CLHEP::twopi.
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| 207 | + extended/persistency/gdml/G01:
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| 208 | o Added printout of associated auxiliary information value.
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| 209 | o Corrected typo in replicated.gdml file.
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| 210 | + extended/persistency/gdml/G03:
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| 211 | o Disable use of G4UItcsh on Windows.
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| 212 | + extended/visualization/userVisAction:
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| 213 | o Introduced G4UIExecutive.
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| 214 | + novice/N02:
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| 215 | o Correction in DetectorConstruction::SetMagField() to invoke
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| 216 | fpMagField->SetMagFieldValue().
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| 217 | + novice/N03:
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| 218 | o visTutor: corrected exN03Vis14.mac and exN03Vis15.mac to enable
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| 219 | visualization of tracks and removed redundancy; updated gui.mac
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| 220 | adding missing macros and correcting order; corrected comments
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| 221 | wherever necessary.
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| 222 |
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| 223 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 224 |
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| 225 | Technical Notes
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| 226 | ---------------
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| 227 |
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| 228 | o This patch should be applied on top of relese 9.3.
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| 229 | o Technical notes distributed for release 9.3 are also applicable and
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| 230 | valid for this patch.
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| 231 |
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| 232 | The code and rebuilt binary libraries for release 9.3 are available
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| 233 | through our "Download" Web page:
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| 234 | http://cern.ch/geant4/support/download.shtml
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| 235 |
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| 236 | Please refer to the Geant4 User Documentation:
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| 237 | http://cern.ch/geant4/support/userdocuments.shtml
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| 238 | for further information about using Geant4.
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