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| 13 | <B>Geant4 7.1 Release Notes</B> |
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| 19 | <B><I>June 30<SUP>th</SUP>, 2005</I></B> |
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| 27 | The code and binary libraries for the supported systems are available |
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| 28 | through our <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/geant4">Source Code Web page</A>. |
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| 29 | </P> |
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| 30 | <P> |
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| 31 | Please refer to the |
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| 32 | <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/geant4/G4UsersDocuments/Overview/html">Geant4 |
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| 33 | User Documentation</A> for further information about using Geant4. |
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| 34 | </P> |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | <H2><I>Contents</I></H2> |
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| 37 | <OL> |
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| 38 | <LI><A HREF="#1.">Supported and Tested Platforms</A></LI> |
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| 39 | <LI><A HREF="#2.">AIDA and CLHEP</A></LI> |
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| 40 | <LI><A HREF="#3.">Known Run-Time Problems</A></LI> |
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| 41 | <LI><A HREF="#4.">Compilation Warnings</A></LI> |
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| 42 | <LI><A HREF="#5.">Known Run-Time Warnings</A></LI> |
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| 43 | <LI><A HREF="#6.">Items for migration of the user code</A></LI> |
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| 44 | <LI><A HREF="#7.">Detailed list of changes and fixes</A></LI> |
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| 45 | </OL> |
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| 47 | <P> </P> |
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| 48 | <A NAME="1."></a> |
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| 51 | <!-- ============================================== --> |
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| 53 | <H2>1. Supported and Tested Platforms</H2> |
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| 55 | Official platforms: |
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| 56 | <UL> |
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| 57 | <LI>SUN Solaris 5.8, C++ CC-5.4 Patch 111715-02.</LI> |
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| 58 | <LI>Linux, gcc 3.2.3.<BR> |
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| 59 | This configuration was tested on <I>32 bits architectures (Intel)</I> |
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| 60 | and <I>64 bits architectures (AMD)</I> with the Scientific Linux CERN 3 (SLC3) |
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| 61 | distribution (based on RedHat Linux Enterprise 3). |
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| 62 | Versions of Geant4 have also been compiled successfully on other |
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| 63 | Linux distributions, like Debian, Suse or other RedHat systems.</LI> |
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| 64 | <LI>Windows/XP and CygWin Tools with: Visual C++ 7.1 .NET</LI> |
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| 65 | </UL> |
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| 67 | More verified configurations: |
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| 68 | <UL> |
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| 69 | <LI>SUN Solaris 5.8, C++ CC-5.5</LI> |
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| 70 | <LI>Linux, gcc-3.4.3, gcc-3.4.4, gcc-4.0.0</LI> |
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| 71 | <LI>Linux, Intel-icc 8.0</LI> |
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| 72 | <LI>MacOS 10.3, gcc-3.3</LI> |
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| 73 | <LI>MacOS 10.4, gcc-4.0</LI> |
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| 74 | </UL> |
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| 76 | Platforms configured but not tested and not supported: |
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| 77 | <UL> |
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| 78 | <LI>AIX 4.3.2, xlC 6.0</LI> |
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| 79 | <LI>DEC V4.0, cxx C++ V6.1-027</LI> |
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| 80 | <LI>HP 10.20, aCC C++ B3910B A.01.23</LI> |
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| 81 | <LI>SGI V6.5.5, CC 7.2.1</LI> |
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| 82 | </UL> |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | <P> </P> |
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| 85 | <A NAME="2."></A> |
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| 86 | <HR> |
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| 87 | |
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| 88 | <!-- ============================================== --> |
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| 90 | <H2>2. AIDA and CLHEP</H2> |
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| 91 | |
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| 92 | Geant4 7.1 requires the installation of |
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| 93 | <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/clhep">CLHEP</A>.<BR> |
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| 94 | Tests have been performed with <B>CLHEP-1.9.2.1</B><BR> |
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| 95 | The software has been verified to be still compatible with <B>CLHEP-1.8.1.0</B>.<BR> |
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| 96 | <P> </P> |
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| 97 | Geant4 7.1 examples with histogramming cowork with AIDA 3.2.1 |
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| 98 | implementations. These include: |
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| 99 | <UL> |
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| 100 | <LI><A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/PI">PI</A> and included components</LI> |
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| 101 | <LI><A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://jas.freehep.org">JAS (Java Analysis Studio)</A></LI> |
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| 102 | <LI><A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/OpenScientist">Open Scientist</A></LI> |
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| 103 | </UL> |
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| 104 | |
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| 105 | AIDA headers can be downloaded from: |
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| 106 | <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://aida.freehep.org">http://aida.freehep.org</A> |
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| 108 | |
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| 109 | <P> </P> |
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| 110 | <A NAME="3."></A> |
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| 111 | <HR> |
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| 113 | <!-- ============================================== --> |
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| 114 | |
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| 115 | <H2>3. Known Run-Time Problems and Limitations</H2> |
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| 116 | |
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| 117 | For a complete list of outstanding run-time problems and to submit any |
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| 118 | problem you may find running this version of Geant4, please refer to the |
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| 119 | <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/geant4/problemreport">Geant4 Problem Reporting |
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| 120 | System</A>. |
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| 121 | |
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| 122 | |
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| 123 | <P> </P> |
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| 124 | <A NAME="4."></A> |
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| 125 | <HR> |
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| 127 | <!-- ============================================== --> |
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| 129 | <H2>4. Compilation Warnings</H2> |
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| 130 | |
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| 131 | There may be compilation warnings on some platforms. We do not believe |
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| 132 | that any will lead to incorrect run-time behaviour. |
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| 134 | |
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| 135 | <P> </P> |
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| 136 | <A NAME="5."></A> |
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| 139 | <!-- ============================================== --> |
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| 141 | <H2>5. Known Run-Time Warnings</H2> |
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| 143 | The following message can be written to error output while tracking. |
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| 144 | We believe it does not give rise to incorrect behaviour. |
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| 145 | <PRE> |
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| 146 | G4PropagateInField: Warning: Particle is looping |
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| 147 | - tracking in field will be stopped. |
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| 148 | It has performed 1000 steps in Field while a maximum of 1000 |
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| 149 | are allowed. |
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| 150 | </PRE> |
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| 153 | <P> </P> |
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| 154 | <A NAME="6."></A> |
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| 155 | <HR> |
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| 157 | <!-- ============================================== --> |
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| 159 | <H2>6. Items for migration of the user code</H2> |
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| 160 | |
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| 161 | Some minor migrations may be necessary for advanced uses of features in Geant4 in |
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| 162 | order to upgrade from release 7.0 to release 7.1, a full recompilation and/or |
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| 163 | reinstallation of libraries and user applications is anyhow required. |
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| 164 | |
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| 165 | <P> </P> |
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| 166 | <B>New Installation flags</B> |
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| 167 | <P> </P> |
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| 168 | Some installation flags have been introduced or slightly modified: |
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| 169 | <UL> |
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| 170 | <LI><TT>G4LIB_BUILD_ZLIB, G4LIB_USE_ZLIB</TT>: building the <TT>zlib</TT> file compression |
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| 171 | module has now become optional. It is not required on UNIX-like platforms where the |
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| 172 | built-in <TT>zlib</TT> library is used, while it is optional on Windows where it is |
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| 173 | disabled by default.</LI> |
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| 174 | <LI><TT>G4LIB_BUILD_G3TOG4, G4LIB_USE_G3TOG4</TT>: now required to build and use the optional |
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| 175 | <TT>g3tog4</TT> module.</LI> |
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| 176 | </UL> |
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| 177 | |
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| 178 | <P> </P> |
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| 179 | <B>New Data libraries</B> |
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| 180 | <P> </P> |
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| 181 | New data libraries for "low-energy" processes (G4LOWEN-3.0) and "elastic scattering" |
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| 182 | at high-energy (G4ELASTIC-1.1) should be used in this release. |
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| 183 | |
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| 184 | <P> </P> |
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| 185 | <B>User defined solids</B> |
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| 186 | <P> </P> |
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| 187 | User codes which include implementations of customised solids are required to slightly |
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| 188 | modify their implementation of the helper method for visualization |
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| 189 | <TT>DescribeYourselfTo()</TT> to replace the call to <TT>AddThis()</TT> with |
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| 190 | <TT>AddSolid()</TT>. |
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| 191 | |
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| 192 | <P> </P> |
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| 193 | <A NAME="7."></A> |
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| 194 | <HR> |
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| 196 | <!-- ============================================== --> |
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| 197 | |
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| 198 | <H2>7. Detailed list of changes and fixes</H2> |
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| 199 | |
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| 200 | These are the main new features/fixes included in this release since the |
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| 201 | last patched public release (for the detailed list of fixes/additions, |
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| 202 | please refer to the related History files provided in most packages): |
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| 203 | |
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| 204 | <P> </P> |
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| 205 | |
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| 206 | <A NAME="conf-notes"> |
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| 207 | <H3><I>Configuration</I></H3></A> |
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| 208 | <UL> |
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| 209 | <LI><TT>Configure</TT> script: |
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| 210 | <UL> |
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| 211 | <LI>Now setting a unique entry point for path to data; added also settings for |
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| 212 | new data sets (low-energy-EM and elastic-scattering).</LI> |
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| 213 | <LI>Updated variable settings for G3toG4 module and zlib.</LI> |
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| 214 | <LI>Corrected text where necessary.</LI> |
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| 215 | </UL></LI> |
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| 216 | <LI>Added printout of Geant4 version at build startup and removed verbose output |
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| 217 | from libmap stage.</LI> |
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| 218 | <LI>Modified <TT>clean</TT> targets to allow multiple clean rules.</LI> |
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| 219 | <LI>Setup variables: |
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| 220 | <UL> |
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| 221 | <LI>Changed <TT>G4USE_G4TOG4</TT> to <TT>G4LIB_USE_G3TOG4</TT> to be consistent |
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| 222 | with the rest of configuration variables. Now <TT>G4LIB_BUILD_G3TOG4</TT> is |
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| 223 | required in order to build the <TT>G3toG4</TT> module.</LI> |
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| 224 | <LI>Added <TT>G4LIB_BUILD/USE_ZLIB</TT> flags: |
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| 225 | <UL> |
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| 226 | <LI><TT>G4LIB_BUILD_ZLIB</TT> is mandatory for Windows, if zlib is required;</LI> |
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| 227 | <LI>if <TT>G4LIB_BUILD_ZLIB</TT> is set, the Geant4 zlib module is used (all |
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| 228 | platforms);</LI> |
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| 229 | <LI>if only <TT>G4LIB_USE_ZLIB</TT> is set, the system built-in zlib is used |
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| 230 | (UNIX only);</LI> |
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| 231 | <LI>if none is set, zlib is not used (all platforms).</LI> |
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| 232 | </UL></LI> |
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| 233 | </UL></LI> |
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| 234 | <LI>Changed configuration for OPENGLXM to explicitely require OPENGLX.</LI> |
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| 235 | <LI>System configurations: |
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| 236 | <UL> |
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| 237 | <LI>SUN-CC: removed obsolete compilation option for redirection to |
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| 238 | template repository, no longer necessary, and added <TT>-lsunmath</TT> to |
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| 239 | <TT>LOADLIBS</TT> now required with CLHEP-1.9.X for static libraries.</LI> |
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| 240 | <LI>Darwin-g++: updated compilation options, now similar to Linux-g++ setup.</LI> |
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| 241 | </UL> |
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| 242 | </UL> |
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| 243 | |
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| 244 | <A NAME="dgt-notes"> |
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| 245 | <H3><I>Digitization & Hits</I></H3></A> |
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| 246 | <UL> |
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| 247 | <LI><TT>G4VHit</TT>: fixed interface to <TT>CreateAttValues()</TT>, |
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| 248 | removed <TT>const</TT> qualifier.</LI> |
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| 249 | </UL> |
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| 250 | |
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| 251 | <A NAME="emlow-notes"> |
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| 252 | <H3><I>Electromagnetic Processes (Low-energy)</I></H3></A> |
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| 253 | <UL> |
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| 254 | <LI>Included implementation of DNA elastic scattering in water.</LI> |
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| 255 | <LI>New low energy polarised Rayleigh scattering process: |
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| 256 | <TT>G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh</TT></LI> |
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| 257 | <LI>Fix to Penelope ionisation for atomic deexcitation.</LI> |
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| 258 | <LI>Fixed Sauter angular distribution in <TT>G4PenelopePhotoelectric</TT>.</LI> |
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| 259 | <LI>Minor fixes in: <TT>G4hICRU49Nuclear</TT>, <TT>G4hZiegler1985Nuclear</TT> and |
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| 260 | <TT>G4LowEnergyPolarizedCompton</TT>.</LI> |
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| 261 | <LI>Bug fix in AtomicDeexcitation concerning the Auger effect.</LI> |
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| 262 | <LI>Bug fix in PenelopeIonisation, addressing problem report #729.</LI> |
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| 263 | </UL> |
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| 264 | |
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| 265 | <A NAME="emstd-notes"> |
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| 266 | <H3><I>Electromagnetic Processes (Standard)</I></H3></A> |
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| 267 | <UL> |
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| 268 | <LI><B>Utils & Standard</B> |
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| 269 | <UL> |
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| 270 | <LI>The photon processes (<TT>G4PhotoElectric</TT>, <TT>G4ComptonScattering</TT>, |
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| 271 | <TT>G4GammaConversion</TT>) and <TT>G4eplusnAnnihilation</TT> have been redesigned |
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| 272 | according to the process-model approach, like for the energy loss processes.<BR> |
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| 273 | The common base classes, <TT>G4VEmProcess</TT> and <TT>G4VEmModel</TT>, have been |
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| 274 | consequently upgraded. Physics results should be unchanged.<BR> |
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| 275 | The redesign is transparent to the user. 'Old' photon and positron processes have |
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| 276 | been frozen and kept for a while, under <TT>G4PhotoElectric52</TT> ... etc ... |
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| 277 | See the class <TT>PhysListEmG4v52</TT> in most of extended/electromagnetic |
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| 278 | examples and <TT>g4v52</TT> alternative PhyicsList in |
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| 279 | physics_list/electromagnetic.</LI> |
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| 280 | <LI>The class <TT>G4EmCalculator</TT> allows to access most of the basic quantities of |
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| 281 | electromagnetic processes: crossSections, meanFreePath, stoppingPower, csdaRange. |
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| 282 | It has been updated and can be applied to all standard processes. |
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| 283 | See examples in extended/electromagnetic <TT>RunAction</TT> for TestEm1, TestEm5 |
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| 284 | and TestEm11.</LI> |
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| 285 | <LI>The limit of applicability of the model of energy loss straggling |
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| 286 | (<TT>G4UniversalFluctuation</TT>) has been reviewed and extended to smaller energy |
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| 287 | loss (~eV). This affects energy loss distributions for small steps (under |
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| 288 | micrometer).</LI> |
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| 289 | <LI>The <TT>G4EmCorrections</TT> class has been introduced to provide corrections to |
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| 290 | energy loss of hadrons and ions. With the standard package, stopping power for |
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| 291 | protons and alpha particles are within 2% with the Nist data, from <TT>1 keV</TT> |
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| 292 | to <TT>100 GeV</TT> for all atoms.</LI> |
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| 293 | </UL></LI> |
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| 294 | <LI><B>Muons</B> |
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| 295 | <UL> |
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| 296 | <LI>A new class <TT>G4EnergyLossForExtrapolator</TT> has been introduced. This class |
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| 297 | provides calculation of average energy loss and its dispersion for the step of |
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| 298 | charged particles in media. It also provides average angle of multiple scattering. |
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| 299 | This class is working independently of the Geant4 event loop and does not require |
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| 300 | Run, Event and Stepping managers. It requires only particles and materials |
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| 301 | instantiation.</LI> |
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| 302 | </UL></LI> |
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| 303 | <LI><B>HighEnergy</B> |
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| 304 | <UL> |
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| 305 | <LI>Two new models <TT>G4BetheBlochNoDeltaModel</TT> and <TT>G4BraggNoDeltaModel</TT> |
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| 306 | are released; they can be used for the simulation of exotic heavy ionizing objects |
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| 307 | (monopoles ..etc..).</LI> |
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| 308 | </UL></LI> |
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| 309 | <LI><B>Xrays</B> |
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| 310 | <UL> |
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| 311 | <LI>Updated TRD model for regular radiator, to provide more realistic gamma spectrum. |
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| 312 | Added <TT>G4StrawTubeXTRadiator</TT> and modified the integration algorithm in |
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| 313 | <TT>G4TransparentRegXTRadiator</TT>.</LI> |
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| 314 | </UL></LI> |
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| 315 | </UL> |
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| 316 | |
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| 317 | <A NAME="evt-notes"> |
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| 318 | <H3><I>Event</I></H3></A> |
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| 319 | <UL> |
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| 320 | <LI>Extended <TT>G4PrimaryTransformer</TT> to accept exotic particles, to take care of |
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| 321 | mass defined in <TT>G4PrimaryParticle</TT> and to accept shortlived primary particles |
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| 322 | with proper decay table. Also issueing a warning message if a shortlived primary |
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| 323 | does not have decay table nor pre-assigned decay mode. Added also a new virtual |
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| 324 | method to alter the conversion of such shortlived into a track.</LI> |
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| 325 | <LI>Modified <TT>G4ParticleGun</TT> and <TT>G4ParticleGunMessenger</TT> to accept |
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| 326 | shortlived primary particle with proper decay table.</LI> |
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| 327 | <LI>Moved <TT>G4PrimaryParticle</TT>, <TT>G4PrimaryVertex</TT>, |
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| 328 | <TT>G4VUserPrimaryParticleInformation</TT>, and |
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| 329 | <TT>G4VUserPrimaryVertexInformation</TT> to 'particles' category.</LI> |
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| 330 | <LI>Fixed bug for particle weight in <TT>G4SingleParticlesource</TT>.</LI> |
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| 331 | </UL> |
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| 332 | |
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| 333 | <A NAME="gen-notes"> |
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| 334 | <H3><I>General Processes: Decay, Transportation</I></H3></A> |
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| 335 | <UL> |
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| 336 | <LI><B>Decay</B> |
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| 337 | <UL> |
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| 338 | <LI>Fixed bug in <TT>G4Decay::AtRestGetPhysicalInteractionLength()</TT>. |
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| 339 | Condition is now fixed to <TT>Not Forced</TT>.</LI> |
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| 340 | </UL></LI> |
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| 341 | <LI><B>Transportation</B> |
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| 342 | <UL> |
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| 343 | <LI>Made destructors virtual for <TT>G4StepLimiter</TT> and |
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| 344 | <TT>G4UserSpecialCuts</TT>.</LI> |
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| 345 | <LI>Added process type to <TT>G4Transportation</TT>. |
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| 346 | Addresses problem report #743.</LI> |
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| 347 | </UL></LI> |
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| 348 | </UL> |
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| 349 | |
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| 350 | <A NAME="geo-notes"> |
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| 351 | <H3><I>Geometry</I></H3></A> |
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| 352 | <UL> |
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| 353 | <LI><B>Management</B> |
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| 354 | <UL> |
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| 355 | <LI>Extended <TT>G4Region</TT> to hold <TT>G4UserLimits</TT> so that the |
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| 356 | information will be propagated as for the cuts; added access |
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| 357 | from <TT>G4LogicalVolume</TT>.</LI> |
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| 358 | <LI>Added optional boolean argument <TT>propagate</TT> to <TT>GetMass()</TT> |
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| 359 | to avoid propagation of computation of masses to the daughter volumes on |
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| 360 | request. Propagation to daughters is done by default.</LI> |
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| 361 | <LI>Extended signatures for <TT>OpenGeometry()</TT> and <TT>CloseGeometry()</TT> |
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| 362 | to consider local optimisation of a subtree of volumes. Voxelisation can now |
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| 363 | apply to just a specific subtree if a physical volume is specified.</LI> |
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| 364 | <LI>Added protection against <TT>NULL</TT> material pointer for volumes belonging |
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| 365 | to the tracking geometry in <TT>G4Region</TT> scanning. |
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| 366 | Addresses problem report #735.</LI> |
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| 367 | <LI>Updated implementation of <TT>GetPolyhedron()</TT> in <TT>G4ReflectedSolid</TT>.</LI> |
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| 368 | <LI>Modified <TT>G4LogicalVolume::SetVisAttributes(const G4VisAttributes& VA)</TT> to |
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| 369 | now create a copy of <TT>VA</TT> on the heap. Temporary solution, until a proper |
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| 370 | 'store' for visualization attributes will be implemented to take care of the |
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| 371 | memory management.</LI> |
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| 372 | </UL></LI> |
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| 373 | <LI><B>Solids</B> |
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| 374 | <UL> |
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| 375 | <LI>Implemented <TT>Get/CreatePolyhedron()</TT> where missing</LI> |
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| 376 | <LI>Changed <TT>AddThis()</TT> with <TT>AddSolid()</TT> for all solids in |
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| 377 | <TT>DescribeYourselfTo()</TT>.</LI> |
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| 378 | <LI>Some code cleanup.</LI> |
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| 379 | <LI><I>Boolean</I>: |
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| 380 | <UL> |
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| 381 | <LI>Fix in <TT>G4IntersectionSolid::DistanceToIn(p,v)</TT> to allow for correct |
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| 382 | simmetrical treatment of the solids' intersection. Algorithm reviewed |
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| 383 | as proposed in problem report #723.</LI> |
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| 384 | <LI>Modified <TT>Inside(p)</TT> in <TT>G4SubtractionSolid</TT> and |
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| 385 | <TT>G4UnionSolid</TT>, to fix inconsistency for non-zero sum of |
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| 386 | surface-normals. Now computing surface-normal for edges/vertices.</LI> |
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| 387 | <LI>Use the newly available <TT>CreatePolyhedron()</TT> for components of |
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| 388 | Boolean solids, instead of <TT>GetPolyhedron()</TT>.</LI> |
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| 389 | </UL></LI> |
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| 390 | <LI><I>CSG</I>: |
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| 391 | <UL> |
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| 392 | <LI>New implementation of <TT>SurfaceNormal(p)</TT> with edges/vertices. |
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| 393 | The implementation is now consistent with <TT>Inside(p)</TT> functions for |
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| 394 | the treatment of phi/theta surfaces, which are now treated in terms of |
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| 395 | <TT>kAngTolerance</TT>; the surface selection is made according to |
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| 396 | <TT>Inside(p)</TT> approach. The old specification is temporarily kept |
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| 397 | to treat exotic uses of the function for points not at the surface.</LI> |
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| 398 | </UL></LI> |
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| 399 | <LI><I>Specific</I>: |
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| 400 | <UL> |
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| 401 | <LI>New generic framework for twisted solids <TT>G4TwistedBox</TT>, |
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| 402 | <TT>G4TwistedTrd</TT> and <TT>G4TwistedTrap</TT>: inheriting now from a |
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| 403 | new base class <TT>G4VTwistedFaceted</TT>.</LI> |
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| 404 | <LI>Extended <TT>G4TwistedTrap</TT> to support setups with different trapezoidal |
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| 405 | endcaps with centres not necessarily on a line parallel to the <TT>z</TT> |
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| 406 | axis.</LI> |
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| 407 | <LI><TT>G4TwistedSurface</TT>: fixed bug in <TT>GetAreaCode()</TT> affecting |
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| 408 | <TT>G4TwistedTubs</TT>.</LI> |
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| 409 | </UL></LI> |
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| 410 | </UL></LI> |
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| 411 | <LI><B>Volumes</B> |
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| 412 | <UL> |
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| 413 | <LI>Made constructors/destructors and operators for <TT>G4NavigationLevelRep</TT> |
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| 414 | and <TT>G4NavigationLevel</TT> not inlined. Rationalised definition |
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| 415 | of allocators to belong to related translation units. Workaround necessary |
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| 416 | to allow for correct optimisation on some compilers on 64-bits systems.</LI> |
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| 417 | </UL></LI> |
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| 418 | </UL> |
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| 419 | |
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| 420 | <A NAME="glob-notes"> |
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| 421 | <H3><I>Global</I></H3></A> |
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| 422 | <UL> |
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| 423 | <LI>Migrated calls to <TT>G4Exception</TT> in HEPNumerics to canonical signature.</LI> |
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| 424 | <LI>Q/A cleanup to clear CodeWizard warnings, minor fixes and moved inline methods to |
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| 425 | .icc files.</LI> |
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| 426 | <LI>Added <TT>G4BestUnit::operator G4String</TT> in <TT>G4UnitsTable</TT>.</LI> |
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| 427 | <LI>Added new class <TT>G4AnalyticalPolSolver</TT> in HEPNumerics module, implementing |
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| 428 | the CACM algorithm for solving analytically a polynomial equation up to the 4th order.</LI> |
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| 429 | </UL> |
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| 430 | |
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| 431 | <UL> |
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| 432 | </UL> |
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| 433 | |
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| 434 | <A NAME="greps-notes"> |
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| 435 | <H3><I>Graphical Representations</I></H3></A> |
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| 436 | <UL> |
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| 437 | <LI><TT>HepPolyhedron</TT>: added method <TT>IsErrorBooleanProcess()</TT>. |
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| 438 | and <TT>BooleanProcessor::get_processor_error()</TT>.</LI> |
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| 439 | <LI>Implementation improvements in <TT>G4VisExtent</TT>, <TT>G4Polyhedron</TT>, |
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| 440 | and <TT>G4VisAttributes</TT>. Added new class <TT>G4AttCheck</TT>.</LI> |
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| 441 | </UL> |
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| 442 | |
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| 443 | <A NAME="mat-notes"> |
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| 444 | <H3><I>Materials</I></H3></A> |
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| 445 | <UL> |
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| 446 | <LI>New public interface to build elements and materials, based on the <B>Nist</B> |
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| 447 | materials data base. In particular one can easily define an element with its natural |
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| 448 | isotope composition. About 300 materials are included into the Geant4 material DB.<BR> |
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| 449 | Examples are given in extended/electromagnetic examples TestEm9, TestEm11 and |
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| 450 | extended/medical/GammaTherapy.<BR> |
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| 451 | The material category is equipped by its messenger, which allows to access elements |
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| 452 | and materials from data-base.</LI> |
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| 453 | <LI>Made <TT>A</TT> optional in <TT>G4Isotope</TT>, now taken from Nist data base by |
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| 454 | default.</LI> |
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| 455 | <LI>Added new data member in <TT>G4Element</TT> to count the number of elements |
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| 456 | with same <TT>Z</TT>.</LI> |
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| 457 | <LI>Added <TT>SetGROUPVEL()</TT> to <TT>G4MaterialPropertiesTable</TT>. Addresses |
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| 458 | problem report #741.</LI> |
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| 459 | <LI>Trivial fix in <TT>G4IonisParamMat::FindMeanExcitationEnergy()</TT>. Addresses |
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| 460 | problem report #746.</LI> |
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| 461 | </UL> |
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| 462 | |
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| 463 | <A NAME="had-notes"> |
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| 464 | <H3><I>Hadronic Processes</I></H3></A> |
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| 465 | <UL> |
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| 466 | <LI><B>cross_sections</B>: |
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| 467 | <UL> |
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| 468 | <LI>Cleared compilation warnings in <TT>G4EMDissociationCrossSection</TT>.</LI> |
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| 469 | </UL></LI> |
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| 470 | <LI><B>management</B>: |
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| 471 | <UL> |
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| 472 | <LI>Checking for <TT>NaN</TT> at input to <TT>PostStepDoit()</TT> method.</LI> |
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| 473 | <LI>Corrected treatement of momentum balance for elastic scattering final states.</LI> |
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| 474 | <LI>Isotope production code now also provides name of producing model.</LI> |
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| 475 | </UL></LI> |
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| 476 | <LI><B>models/abrasion</B>: |
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| 477 | <UL> |
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| 478 | <LI>Pointers to theAbrasionGeometry and products generated by the deexcitation |
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| 479 | handler deleted to prevent memory leaks. Also particle change of projectile |
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| 480 | fragment previously not properly defined.</LI> |
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| 481 | </UL></LI> |
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| 482 | <LI><B>models/cascade/cascade</B>: |
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| 483 | <UL> |
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| 484 | <LI>Added kaon extension to Bertini cascade. Currently, in order to compile |
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| 485 | the new code, the conditional assembly flag <TT>G4BERTINI_KAON</TT> must be set.</LI> |
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| 486 | <LI>Fixed compilation warnings on gcc-4.0.0.</LI> |
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| 487 | </UL></LI> |
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| 488 | <LI><B>models/chiral_invariant_phase_space</B>: |
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| 489 | <UL> |
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| 490 | <LI>Adapted interface to 'body' module as to not simulate heavy fragments.</LI> |
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| 491 | <LI>Physics tuning for the antiproton-nuclear annihilation at rest.</LI> |
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| 492 | <LI>Corrected error in hypernuclear degradation to normal nuclear fragment |
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| 493 | (1 per 5 millions interactions on <TT>Al</TT>).</LI> |
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| 494 | <LI>Fixed bug in <TT>G4QEnvironment::EvaporateResidual()</TT> observed on SUN. |
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| 495 | Return statement added in the end of recursive void function.</LI> |
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| 496 | <LI>Cleared warnings after QGSC test for 30.E6 interactions of protons.</LI> |
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| 497 | <LI>Fix for uninitialised <TT>G4QPDGCode</TT> in "interface module".</LI> |
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| 498 | </UL></LI> |
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| 499 | <LI><B>models/coherent_elastic</B>: |
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| 500 | <UL> |
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| 501 | <LI>New implementation of high energy coherent elastic scattering, with |
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| 502 | substantial improvement of angular distributions for heavy materials and |
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| 503 | large scattering angles.</LI> |
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| 504 | </UL></LI> |
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| 505 | <LI><B>models/de_excitation</B>: |
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| 506 | <UL> |
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| 507 | <LI>fermi_breakup: registration of fermi fragments made less redundant.</LI> |
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| 508 | <LI>gem_evaporation: channel registration sequence simplified.</LI> |
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| 509 | <LI>handler: fixed a small memory leak for light fragments.</LI> |
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| 510 | </UL></LI> |
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| 511 | <LI><B>models/low_energy</B>: |
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| 512 | <UL> |
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| 513 | <LI>Fixed cases of very rare crashes for low energy strange particle interactions.</LI> |
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| 514 | <LI>Fixed long standing bug in triton inelastic scattering (lead to platform |
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| 515 | dependence).</LI> |
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| 516 | </UL></LI> |
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| 517 | <LI><B>models/management</B>: |
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| 518 | <UL> |
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| 519 | <LI>Removed obsolete classes.</LI> |
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| 520 | </UL></LI> |
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| 521 | <LI><B>models/parton_string/qgsm</B>: |
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| 522 | <UL> |
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| 523 | <LI>Improved baryon splitting and removed <TT>InelasticSplitableHadron</TT> now no |
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| 524 | longer needed.</LI> |
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| 525 | <LI>Fixed compilation warnings on gcc-4.0.0 and some code cleanup.</LI> |
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| 526 | </UL></LI> |
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| 527 | <LI><B>models/pre_equilibrium</B>: |
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| 528 | <UL> |
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| 529 | <LI>Performance optimization by means of reshuffling channels.</LI> |
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| 530 | </UL></LI> |
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| 531 | <LI><B>models/radioactive_decay</B>: |
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| 532 | <UL> |
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| 533 | <LI>Added tests to avoid cosine rounding errors in <TT>G4NuclearDecayChannel</TT>.</LI> |
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| 534 | <LI>Minor correction to <TT>G4NuclearDecayChannel</TT> to fix bug #711.</LI> |
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| 535 | </UL></LI> |
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| 536 | <LI><B>models/util</B>: |
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| 537 | <UL> |
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| 538 | <LI>Some code cleanup.</LI> |
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| 539 | </UL></LI> |
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| 540 | </UL> |
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| 541 | |
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| 542 | <A NAME="parmodels-notes"> |
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| 543 | <H3><I>Parameterisations</I></H3></A> |
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| 544 | <UL> |
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| 545 | <LI><TT>GFlashShowerModel</TT>: fixed compilation warning on gcc-4.0.0 for possible |
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| 546 | undefined operations and warnings on SUN-CC for hiding of class attributes.</LI> |
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| 547 | <LI>Corrected signature for <TT>IntegrateNspLongitudinal()</TT> in implementation |
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| 548 | of <TT>GFlashHomoShowerParamterisation</TT>, to remove const qualifier. |
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| 549 | Problem detected on SUN-CC.</LI> |
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| 550 | </UL> |
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| 551 | |
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| 552 | <A NAME="part-notes"> |
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| 553 | <H3><I>Particles</I></H3></A> |
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| 554 | <UL> |
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| 555 | <LI>Changed default value of mass of <TT>G4PrimaryParticle</TT> from 0 to -1 and |
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| 556 | added <TT>GetPDGcode()</TT> method.</LI> |
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| 557 | <LI>Added neutrino energy spectrum in <TT>G4MuonDecayChannel</TT>.</LI> |
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| 558 | <LI>Moved <TT>G4PrimaryParticle</TT>, G4PrimaryVertex</TT>, |
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| 559 | <TT>G4VUserPrimaryParticleInformation</TT> and |
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| 560 | <TT>G4VUserPrimaryVertexInformation</TT> from event category to management module.</LI> |
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| 561 | </UL> |
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| 562 | |
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| 563 | <A NAME="run-notes"> |
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| 564 | <H3><I>Run, Itercoms and Interfaces</I></H3></A> |
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| 565 | <UL> |
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| 566 | <LI><B>Intercoms</B>: |
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| 567 | <UL> |
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| 568 | <LI>Modified <TT>G4UIbatch</TT> so that it now aborts the execution of the macro file |
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| 569 | (and any other parent macro files which issued this macro file) if a |
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| 570 | command in the macro file is wrong or cannot be executed. |
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| 571 | Fixes problem report #734.</LI> |
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| 572 | <LI>Migration from <TT>AddThis()</TT> to <TT>AddSolid()</TT> |
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| 573 | and <TT>AddCompound()</TT>.</LI> |
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| 574 | <LI><TT>G4VGraphicsScene</TT>: introduced new names. |
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| 575 | Old methods call new methods as interim solution.</LI> |
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| 576 | <LI><TT>G4VVisManager::Draw()</TT>: removed default argument.</LI> |
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| 577 | </UL></LI> |
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| 578 | <LI><B>Interfaces</B>: |
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| 579 | <UL> |
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| 580 | <LI><TT>G4UIGainServer</TT>: fixed conditional compilation for porting on MacOS 10.4.</LI> |
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| 581 | </UL></LI> |
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| 582 | <LI><B>Run</B>: |
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| 583 | <UL> |
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| 584 | <LI>Messages about defined particles and physics tables are now printed |
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| 585 | out only for verbose level greater than 1.</LI> |
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| 586 | <LI>Moved invocation of <TT>ConstructParticle()</TT> method back to the original |
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| 587 | place in <TT>InitializePhysics()</TT>.</LI> |
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| 588 | <LI>Added <TT>SetPrimaryTransformer()</TT> method to <TT>G4RunManager</TT> |
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| 589 | and <TT>G4RunManagerKernel</TT>.</LI> |
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| 590 | <LI>Changed version string in <TT>G4RunManagerKernel</TT> not to have CVS symbols.</LI> |
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| 591 | </UL></LI> |
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| 592 | </UL> |
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| 593 | |
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| 594 | <A NAME="track-notes"> |
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| 595 | <H3><I>Track and Tracking</I></H3></A> |
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| 596 | <UL> |
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| 597 | <LI><B>Track</B> |
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| 598 | <UL> |
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| 599 | <LI>Added new class <TT>G4ParticleChangeForGamma</TT>.</LI> |
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| 600 | <LI>Fix in <TT>G4Track::GetVelocity()</TT>. Addresses problem report #741.</LI> |
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| 601 | <LI>Modified <TT>G4ParticleChangeForLoss</TT> to inline 'update' methods.</LI> |
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| 602 | </UL></LI> |
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| 603 | <LI><B>Tracking</B> |
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| 604 | <UL> |
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| 605 | <LI>Simplified creation of <TT>G4AttValues</TT> using |
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| 606 | <TT>G4BestUnit::operator G4String()</TT> and |
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| 607 | <TT>G4UIcommand::ConvertToString()</TT>.</LI> |
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| 608 | <LI>Changed Trajectory classes to make use of <TT>G4AttCheck</TT>.</LI> |
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| 609 | <LI>Removed redundant declaration of <TT>SetNavigator()</TT> method. |
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| 610 | Addresses problem report #742.</LI> |
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| 611 | </UL></LI> |
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| 612 | </UL> |
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| 613 | |
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| 614 | <A NAME="vis-notes"> |
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| 615 | <H3><I>Visualization</I></H3></A> |
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| 616 | <UL> |
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| 617 | <LI><B>HepRepFile</B> |
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| 618 | <UL> |
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| 619 | <LI>Providing more efficient representation of many solids (reduces |
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| 620 | typical geometry file sizes by half).</LI> |
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| 621 | <LI>Allow user to specify output directory and filename.</LI> |
---|
| 622 | <LI>Allow user to specify whether to append a file number to the file |
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| 623 | name or to overwrite a single file.</LI> |
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| 624 | <LI>Allow user to specify whether or not invisible volumes should be |
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| 625 | culled from the HepRepFile.</LI> |
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| 626 | <LI>Correctly respect trajectory color from <TT>G4VisAttributes</TT>.</LI> |
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| 627 | <LI>Handling <TT>G4VisAttributes</TT> from hits.</LI> |
---|
| 628 | <LI>Using <TT>G4AttCheck</TT> to standardize attribute units.</LI> |
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| 629 | <LI>Decomposed attributes that are 3Vectors into three separate HepRep |
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| 630 | Attributes.</LI> |
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| 631 | </UL></LI> |
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| 632 | <LI><B>HepRepXML</B> |
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| 633 | <UL> |
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| 634 | <LI>Fixed problems with sequential heprep files, gz files and too much |
---|
| 635 | info.</LI> |
---|
| 636 | <LI>Fixes for compilation on gcc-4.0.0.</LI> |
---|
| 637 | <LI>Moved to heprep version 2.0.1 and cheprep version 2.0.5.</LI> |
---|
| 638 | <LI>Reorganised ZLIB and ZIPIOS++ code.</LI> |
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| 639 | <LI>Providing more efficient representation of many solids.</LI> |
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| 640 | <LI>Handling attributes on hits and trajectories.</LI> |
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| 641 | </UL></LI> |
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| 642 | <LI><B>management</B> |
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| 643 | <UL> |
---|
| 644 | <LI>Introduced drawing of readout geometry for logical volumes. |
---|
| 645 | For drawing of logical volumes, introduced boolean flags to control drawing of: |
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| 646 | boolean components (if any), voxels (if any) and readout geometry (if any). |
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| 647 | Augmented commands <TT>/vis/specify</TT> and <TT>/vis/scene/add/logicalVolume</TT> |
---|
| 648 | to use above flags.</LI> |
---|
| 649 | <LI>Migration from <TT>AddThis()</TT> to <TT>AddSolid()</TT> (method for adding |
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| 650 | solids to the scene handler) and <TT>AddCompound()</TT> (method for adding |
---|
| 651 | "compound" objects to the scene handler). These methods may either (a) |
---|
| 652 | invoke "user code" through <TT>G4VVisManager</TT> or (b) invoke |
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| 653 | <TT>AddPrimitives()</TT> or (c) use graphics-system-specific code or (d) any |
---|
| 654 | combination of the above.</LI> |
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| 655 | <LI>Introduced <TT>G4VisExecutive</TT>. <TT>MyVisManager</TT> deprecated.</LI> |
---|
| 656 | <LI>Added first implementation of cutaway: a clipping box for physical |
---|
| 657 | volume tree: <TT>vis/scene/add/volume ! ! ! box km 0 1 0 1 0 1</TT>.</LI> |
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| 658 | <LI><TT>G4VisCommandsViewerSet</TT>: made Up and Viewpoint vectors unit for safety.</LI> |
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| 659 | <LI><TT>G4VisManager</TT>: removed "Delete" methods. Removed "remove" and "edit" |
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| 660 | commands.</LI> |
---|
| 661 | <LI>Reviewed all vis commands. Improved guidance, simplified and |
---|
| 662 | rationalised the commands.</LI> |
---|
| 663 | <LI>Fixed UI command <TT>/vis/scene/add/text</TT> to accept text with spaces.</LI> |
---|
| 664 | <LI>Reduced text size of scale annotation to 12 pixels.</LI> |
---|
| 665 | <LI>Issue warning in <TT>G4ViewParameters</TT> for viewpoint direction close to |
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| 666 | up vector direction.</LI> |
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| 667 | <LI>Fixed case of scene handler with no viewer in UI command |
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| 668 | <TT>/vis/scene/notifyHandlers</TT>.</LI> |
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| 669 | <LI>Removed automatic parameter candidate specification for commands |
---|
| 670 | that take an argument that is a scene, scene handler or viewer name: it is checked |
---|
| 671 | in <TT>SetNewValue()</TT> methods.</LI> |
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| 672 | <LI>Added <TT>G4VUserVisAction</TT> and <TT>G4CallbackModel</TT> classes.</LI> |
---|
| 673 | <LI>Implemented <TT>/vis/scene/add/userAction</TT> and introduced |
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| 674 | <TT>/vis/scene/add/logo</TT>.</LI> |
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| 675 | <LI>Protected scene handlers for the case of the drawing of solids NOT from a physical |
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| 676 | volume tree.</LI> |
---|
| 677 | <LI>Improved physical volume clipping.</LI> |
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| 678 | <LI>Fixed bug in <TT>/vis/viewer/update</TT> to check the existence of the scene |
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| 679 | handler and the scene.</LI> |
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| 680 | </UL></LI> |
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| 681 | <LI><B>modeling</B> |
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| 682 | <UL> |
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| 683 | <LI><TT>G4PhysicalVolumeModel</TT>: <TT>SetCopyNo</TT> of replicas and paramaterised |
---|
| 684 | volumes.</LI> |
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| 685 | <LI><TT>G4TextModel</TT>: improved global tag for better identification.</LI> |
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| 686 | <LI><TT>G4PhysicalVolumeModel</TT>: fixed case of off-origin volume and handling |
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| 687 | of rotation steps.</LI> |
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| 688 | </UL></LI> |
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| 689 | <LI><B>OpenGL</B> |
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| 690 | <UL> |
---|
| 691 | <LI><TT>G4OpenGLViewer</TT>: created virtual void <TT>CreateFontLists()</TT>. |
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| 692 | In all concrete viewers, added call to <TT>CreateFontLists()</TT>. |
---|
| 693 | Moved font code for X to <TT>G4OpenGLXViewer::CreateFontLists()</TT>.</LI> |
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| 694 | <LI>There is no longer a need to implement in the XmViewer, since it |
---|
| 695 | now inherits. Thus the font code now only appears once for X.</LI> |
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| 696 | <LI>Restored sequence <TT>Set/Clear/DrawView</TT> in <TT>ClearTransientStore()</TT>. |
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| 697 | Fixed bug for views not refreshed.</LI> |
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| 698 | </UL></LI> |
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| 699 | <LI><B>OpenInventor</B> |
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| 700 | <UL> |
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| 701 | <LI>Implemented marker sizes.</LI> |
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| 702 | <LI>Changed <TT>char*</TT> to <TT>const char*</TT> in <TT>gl2psMsg</TT>.</LI> |
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| 703 | <LI>Removed extra ';' for porting on gcc-3.4.X and higher.</LI> |
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| 704 | <LI><TT>G4OpenInventorTransform3D</TT>: use <TT>CLHEP::Transform3D::operator(i,j)</TT> |
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| 705 | in order to be compatible with new versions of CLHEP.</LI> |
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| 706 | </UL></LI> |
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| 707 | <LI><B>Tree</B> |
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| 708 | <UL> |
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| 709 | <LI>Changed ASCIITree to use <TT>G4VSolid::GetCubicVolume()</TT> and |
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| 710 | <TT>G4LogicalVolume::GetMass()</TT>; added printing of names of sensitive |
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| 711 | detector (if any) and readout geometry (if any).</LI> |
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| 712 | <LI>Improved ASCIITree guidance.</LI> |
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| 713 | </UL></LI> |
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| 714 | <LI><B>XXX</B> |
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| 715 | <UL> |
---|
| 716 | <LI>Removed scene count and included some ongoing developments to do with |
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| 717 | making a consistent geometry hierarchy in presence of culled volumes. |
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| 718 | <LI>Fixed some compilation warnings.</LI> |
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| 719 | </UL></LI> |
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| 720 | </UL> |
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| 721 | |
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| 722 | <A NAME="lst-notes"> |
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| 723 | <H3><I>Physics lists</I></H3></A> |
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| 724 | <UL> |
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| 725 | <LI><B>electromagnetic</B>: changed gamma and e+ classes in <TT>G4EmQEDBuilder52</TT>.</LI> |
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| 726 | </UL> |
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| 727 | |
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| 728 | <A NAME="g3tog4-notes"> |
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| 729 | <H3><I>G3toG4 Tool</I></H3></A> |
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| 730 | <UL> |
---|
| 731 | <LI>Fixed initialisation local pointer variable in |
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| 732 | <TT>G3toG4BuildTree::G3toG4BuildPVTree()</TT>.</LI> |
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| 733 | </UL> |
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| 734 | |
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| 735 | <A NAME="data-notes"> |
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| 736 | <H3><I>Data</I></H3></A> |
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| 737 | <UL> |
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| 738 | <LI>New data set for low-energy EM processes: G4EMLOWEN-3.0.</LI> |
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| 739 | <LI>New data set for elastic scattering: G4ELASTIC-1.1.</LI> |
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| 740 | </UL> |
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| 741 | |
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| 742 | <A NAME="ex-notes"> |
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| 743 | <H3><I>Examples</I></H3></A> |
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| 744 | <UL> |
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| 745 | <LI>Updated reference outputs.</LI> |
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| 746 | <LI>Changed <TT>VisManagers</TT> in all examples making use of visualization to now |
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| 747 | adopt <TT>G4VisExecutive</TT>.</LI> |
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| 748 | <LI><B>advanced</B> |
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| 749 | <UL> |
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| 750 | <LI>air_shower |
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| 751 | <UL> |
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| 752 | <LI>Corrected usage of <strstream> in <TT>RunActionMessenger</TT>.</LI> |
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| 753 | <LI>Corrected call to <TT>Visualisation.mac</TT> from main. Changed viewer to OGLSX.</LI> |
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| 754 | <LI>Updated README.</LI> |
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| 755 | </UL></LI> |
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| 756 | <LI>brachytherapy |
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| 757 | <UL> |
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| 758 | <LI>Updated README and tested with AIDA 3.2.1 and PI-1.3.3.</LI> |
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| 759 | </UL></LI> |
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| 760 | <LI>cosmicray_charging |
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| 761 | <UL> |
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| 762 | <LI>Fixed trivial compilation error on gcc-3.4.X (double semicolon).</LI> |
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| 763 | </UL></LI> |
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| 764 | <LI>gammaray_telescope |
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| 765 | <UL> |
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| 766 | <LI>Minor changes to macro files.</LI> |
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| 767 | </UL></LI> |
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| 768 | <LI>hadrontherapy |
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| 769 | <UL> |
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| 770 | <LI>Optimisation of the detector construction and sensitive detector</LI> |
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| 771 | <LI>Introduced modular physics and added hadronic physic list for |
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| 772 | proton and ion.</LI> |
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| 773 | <LI>Corrected bug in the modulator wheel.</LI> |
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| 774 | <LI>Code review, removed warnings and deleted public variables.</LI> |
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| 775 | <LI>Tested analisys with AIDA 3.2.1 and PI 1.3.3.</LI> |
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| 776 | </UL></LI> |
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| 777 | <LI>medical_linac |
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| 778 | <UL> |
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| 779 | <LI>Fixed bug in <TT>ROGeometry</TT>.</LI> |
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| 780 | <LI>Code review.</LI> |
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| 781 | </UL></LI> |
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| 782 | <LI>radioprotection |
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| 783 | <UL> |
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| 784 | <LI>Code review and tested with AIDA 3.2.1 and PI-1.3.3.</LI> |
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| 785 | </UL></LI> |
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| 786 | <LI>Rich |
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| 787 | <UL> |
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| 788 | <LI>Replaced <iostream.h> with <iostream> and <TT>cout</TT> |
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| 789 | with <TT>G4cout</TT>.</LI> |
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| 790 | </UL></LI> |
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| 791 | <LI>Tiara |
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| 792 | <UL> |
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| 793 | <LI>Migration to SLC3 with latest versions of PI 1.3.X.</LI> |
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| 794 | </UL></LI> |
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| 795 | <LI>xray_fluorescence |
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| 796 | <UL> |
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| 797 | <LI>Added new developments and tested with PI-1.3.3.</LI> |
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| 798 | </UL></LI> |
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| 799 | </UL></LI> |
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| 800 | <LI><B>extended</B> |
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| 801 | <UL> |
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| 802 | <LI>analysis/A01 |
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| 803 | <UL> |
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| 804 | <LI>Fixed linking problem with AIDA on WIN32-VC.</LI> |
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| 805 | <LI>Added <TT>G4Atts</TT> to hits so that one can see them if hits |
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| 806 | are picked in WIRED.</LI> |
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| 807 | <LI>Fixed filling of hit histograms.</LI> |
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| 808 | <LI>Updated documentation for the use of Binary HepRep.</LI> |
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| 809 | <LI>Added setting of initial viewpoint to macro files.</LI> |
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| 810 | <LI>Added bheprep example files.</LI> |
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| 811 | </UL></LI> |
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| 812 | <LI>biasing/B02 |
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| 813 | <UL> |
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| 814 | <LI>Migration to SLC3 with latest versions of PI 1.3.X.</LI> |
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| 815 | </UL></LI> |
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| 816 | <LI>biasing/B03 |
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| 817 | <UL> |
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| 818 | <LI>Migration to SLC3 with latest versions of PI 1.3.X.</LI> |
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| 819 | </UL></LI> |
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| 820 | <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm1 |
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| 821 | <UL> |
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| 822 | <LI><TT>PhysListEmStandard</TT>: use <TT>G4eBremsstrahlung</TT> from the standard; |
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| 823 | removed <TT>G4eBremsstrahlungCMS</TT>. Treat Alpha as GenericIon.</LI> |
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| 824 | <LI>Removed He3 from predefined particles.</LI> |
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| 825 | <LI><TT>HistoManager</TT>: added option --noErrors for hbook files.</LI> |
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| 826 | <LI><TT>PhysListEmG4v52</TT>: old photon processes and eplusAnnihilation |
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| 827 | marked as 52.</LI> |
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| 828 | </UL></LI> |
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| 829 | <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm2 |
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| 830 | <UL> |
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| 831 | <LI><TT>HistoManager</TT>: added protection for the creation of the |
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| 832 | analysis factory.</LI> |
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| 833 | <LI>Migration to model version of gamma processes.</LI> |
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| 834 | <LI><TT>RunAction</TT>: added option --noErrors for hbook files.</LI> |
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| 835 | </UL></LI> |
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| 836 | <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm3 |
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| 837 | <UL> |
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| 838 | <LI><TT>HistoManager</TT>: added protection for the creation of the |
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| 839 | analysis factory; file extension is <TT>fileType</TT>.</LI> |
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| 840 | <LI><TT>HistoMessenger</TT>: new command <TT>setFileOption</TT>.</LI> |
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| 841 | <LI>Removed He3 from predefined particles.</LI> |
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| 842 | <LI><TT>PhysListEmStandard</TT>: treat Alpha as GenericIon.</LI> |
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| 843 | <LI><TT>RunAction</TT>: added option --noErrors for hbook files.</LI> |
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| 844 | <LI>Forward and backward energy flow in <TT>SteppingAction</TT> + <TT>RunAction</TT>.</LI> |
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| 845 | </UL></LI> |
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| 846 | <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm4 |
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| 847 | <UL> |
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| 848 | <LI><TT>RunAction</TT>: added protection for the creation of the analysis factory |
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| 849 | and option --noErrors for hbook files.</LI> |
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| 850 | </UL></LI> |
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| 851 | <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm5 |
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| 852 | <UL> |
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| 853 | <LI><TT>HistoManager</TT>: added protection for the creation of the |
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| 854 | analysis factory; file extension is <TT>fileType</TT>.</LI> |
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| 855 | <LI><TT>HistoMessenger</TT>: new command <TT>setFileOption</TT>.</LI> |
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| 856 | <LI>Removed He3 and ionC12 from predefined particles, also from |
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| 857 | IonBinaryCascade.</LI> |
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| 858 | <LI><TT>PhysListEmStandard</TT>: treat alpha as GenericIon.</LI> |
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| 859 | <LI>Added <TT>PhysListEmPenelope</TT>.</LI> |
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| 860 | <LI><TT>RunAction</TT>: added option --noErrors for hbook files.</LI> |
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| 861 | <LI><TT>PhysListEmG4v52</TT>: old photon processes and eplusAnnihilation.</LI> |
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| 862 | </UL></LI> |
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| 863 | <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm6 |
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| 864 | <UL> |
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| 865 | <LI><TT>RunAction</TT>: added protection for the creation of the analysis factory.</LI> |
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| 866 | and added option --noErrors for hbook files.</LI> |
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| 867 | </UL></LI> |
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| 868 | <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm7 |
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| 869 | <UL> |
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| 870 | <LI><TT>RunAction</TT>: added protection for the creation of the analysis factory |
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| 871 | and added option --noErrors for hbook files.</LI> |
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| 872 | <LI>Removed He3 and ionC12 from predefined particles, also from |
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| 873 | IonBinaryCascade.</LI> |
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| 874 | <LI><TT>PhysListEmStandard</TT>: treat alpha as GenericIon.</LI> |
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| 875 | <LI><TT>PhysListEmG4v52</TT>: photon processes v52.</LI> |
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| 876 | </UL></LI> |
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| 877 | <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm8 |
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| 878 | <UL> |
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| 879 | <LI>Remove IonC12 class and unused headers.</LI> |
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| 880 | <LI>Migration v70->standard->v52: <TT>PhysicsList</TT> and macros.</LI> |
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| 881 | </UL></LI> |
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| 882 | <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm9 |
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| 883 | <UL> |
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| 884 | <LI>Removed He3 and ionC12 from predefined particles, also from |
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| 885 | IonBinaryCascade.</LI> |
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| 886 | <LI><TT>PhysListEmStandard</TT>: treat alpha as GenericIon.</LI> |
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| 887 | <LI>Migration to use NIST materials.</LI> |
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| 888 | <LI>Removed <TT>SteppingVerbose</TT> class.</LI> |
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| 889 | </UL></LI> |
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| 890 | <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm11 |
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| 891 | <UL> |
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| 892 | <LI>New example showing handling of energy deposited by particles in |
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| 893 | material and illustrating how to use the concept of 'process' in order |
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| 894 | to implement a constraint on the step size of the particle trajectories.</LI> |
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| 895 | </UL></LI> |
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| 896 | <LI>electromagnetic/MuonProcesses |
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| 897 | <UL> |
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| 898 | <LI><TT>HistoManager</TT>: added protection for the creation of the |
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| 899 | analysis factory; file extension is <TT>fileType</TT>, |
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| 900 | and added option --noErrors for hbook files.</LI> |
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| 901 | </UL></LI> |
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| 902 | <LI>electromagnetic/PhotonProcesses |
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| 903 | <UL> |
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| 904 | <LI><TT>HistoManager</TT>: added protection for the creation of the |
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| 905 | analysis factory; file extension is <TT>fileType</TT>, |
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| 906 | and added option --noErrors for hbook files.</LI> |
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| 907 | <LI><TT>HistoMessenger</TT>: new command setFileOption.</LI> |
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| 908 | <LI>Migration v70->standard->v52: PhysicsList and macros.</LI> |
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| 909 | <LI>Use <TT>EmCalculator</TT> in <TT>RunAction</TT>.</LI> |
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| 910 | </UL></LI> |
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| 911 | <LI>medical/DICOM |
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| 912 | <UL> |
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| 913 | <LI>Revision and bug fixes.</LI> |
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| 914 | </UL></LI> |
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| 915 | <LI>medical/GammaTherapy |
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| 916 | <UL> |
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| 917 | <LI>Return back killing electrons in the gas volume.</LI> |
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| 918 | <LI>Migrated to use NIST materials and "ApplyCuts" option.</LI> |
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| 919 | <LI>Bug fix in UI for step-limiter.</LI> |
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| 920 | </UL></LI> |
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| 921 | <LI>optical/LXe |
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| 922 | <UL> |
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| 923 | <LI>Fixed a material dependent parameter input.</LI> |
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| 924 | </UL></LI> |
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| 925 | <LI>paralled |
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| 926 | <UL> |
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| 927 | <LI>Added missing directories with annotated files in ParN02 and ParN04.</LI> |
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| 928 | <LI>Added text description.</LI> |
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| 929 | </UL></LI> |
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| 930 | <LI>persistency |
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| 931 | <UL> |
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| 932 | <LI>Brought code up-to-date to compile with current Geant4 kernel and |
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| 933 | configuration setup.</LI> |
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| 934 | </UL></LI> |
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| 935 | <LI>radioactivedecay/exrdm |
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| 936 | <UL> |
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| 937 | <LI>Updated physics list and added macro test.mac for testing it.</LI> |
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| 938 | </UL></LI> |
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| 939 | <LI>runAndEvent/RE01 |
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| 940 | <UL> |
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| 941 | <LI>Added visualization.</LI> |
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| 942 | <LI>Added <TT>G4Atts</TT> to hits so that one can see them if hits |
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| 943 | are picked in WIRED.</LI> |
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| 944 | </UL></LI> |
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| 945 | </UL></LI> |
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| 946 | <LI><B>novice</B> |
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| 947 | <UL> |
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| 948 | <LI>N02 |
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| 949 | <UL> |
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| 950 | <LI>Uncommented <TT>G4UserLimits</TT> + <TT>G4StepLimiter</TT>.</LI> |
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| 951 | <LI><TT>ExN02TrackerHit</TT>: changed screen size to 2 pixels.</LI> |
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| 952 | </UL></LI> |
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| 953 | <LI>N03 |
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| 954 | <UL> |
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| 955 | <LI>Decreased size of trajectory points in <TT>EventAction</TT>.</LI> |
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| 956 | </UL></LI> |
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| 957 | <LI>N06 |
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| 958 | <UL> |
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| 959 | <LI>Use <TT>SetProcessOrdering()</TT> for the decay process.</LI> |
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| 960 | </UL></LI> |
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| 961 | </UL></LI> |
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