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11<B>Changes History of User's Documents</B>
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20<HR ALIGN="Center">
21<font COLOR="#238E23">
[1222]22<h2>Version: Geant4 9.3 (December 2009) </h2>
23</font>
24<HR ALIGN="Center">
25<br />
26
27<p>
28<b><u>Installation Guide</u></b>
29</p>
30<ul>
31<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
32 <ul>
33 <li>1. Installation Introduction
34 <li>2. Installation Procedures
35 <li>3. Tips for Installing on Windows
36 </ul>
37</ul>
38
39<p>
40<b><u>User's Guide: For Application Developers</u></b>
41</p>
42<ul>
43<b>- Newly Added Chapters/Sections</b>
44 <ul>
45 <li>3.7.3 Adjoint/Reverse Monte Carlo
46 <li>4.3.2.6 Reducing the number of field calls to speed-up simulatio
47 <li>6.2.2 Killing Tracks in User Actions and Energy Conservation
48</ul>
49<br />
50
51<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
52 <ul>
53 <li>2.1 How to Define the main() Program
54 <li>2.4.1 Particle Definition
55 <li>2.7 How to Make an Executable Program
56 <li>2.8 How to Set Up an Interactive Session
57 <li>2.9 How to Execute a Program
58 <li>3.2 Global Usage Classes
59 <li>3.3 System of units
60 <li>3.7 Event Biasing Techniques
61 <li>4.1 Geometry
62 <li>4.1.8 The Geometry Navigator
63 <li>4.3.2.4 Choosing a Stepper
64 <li>4.8 Command-based scoring
65 <li>5.1.1 Basic Concepts
66 <li>5.1.4 User Actions
67 <li>5.2.1.2 Low Energy Electromagnetic Processes
68 <li>5.2.1.3 Very Low energy Electromagnetic Processes (Geant4-DNA extension)
69 <li>5.2.5 Opptical Photon processes
70 <li>6.2 Optional User Actions
71 <li>7.1 Built-in Commands
72 <li>8.1 Introduction to Visualization
73 <li>8.2 Adding Visualization to Your Executable
74 <li>8.3 The Visualization Drivers
75 <li>8.4 Controlling Visualization from Commands
76 <li>8.9 Polylines, Markers and Text
77 <li>9.2 Extended Examples
78 <li>9.3 Advanced Examples
79 <li>Appendix 1 Tips for Program Compilation
80 <li>Appendix 2 Histogramming
81 <li>Appendix 5 Makefiles and Environment Variables
82 <li>Appendix 6 Step-by-Step Installation Guides
83 <li>Appendix 7 Development and debug tools
84 <li>Appendix 8 Python Interface
85 </ul>
86</ul>
87
88<p>
89<b><u>Physics Reference Manual</u></b>
90</p>
91
92<ul>
93<b>- Newly Added Chapters/Sections</b>
94 <ul>
95 <li>12.10.13 ICRU 73-based energy loss model
96 </ul>
97<br />
98
99<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
100 <ul>
101 <li>7.4 Conversion from range cut to kinetic energycut
102 <li>7.5.9 Implementation Details
103 <li>8.2.1 Cross Section and Energy Loss
104 <li>9.1 Ionization
105 <li>12.11 Penelope physics
106 </ul>
107</ul>
108
109
110<!-- ============================================== Section -->
111<HR ALIGN="Center">
112<font COLOR="#238E23">
[1208]113<h2>Version: Geant4 9.2 Revison01 (June 2009) </h2>
114</font>
115<HR ALIGN="Center">
116<br />
117
118<p>
119<b><u>User's Guide: For Application Developers</u></b>
120</p>
121<ul>
122<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
123 <ul>
124 <li>8.5.6. Visualization of hits
125 <li>5.4.7. Special tracking cuts
126 <li>FAQ.6. Visualization
127 </ul>
128</ul>
129
130<p>
131<b><u>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</u></b>
132</p>
133<ul>
134<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
135 <ul>
136 <li><b>All</b> figures in the manual are replaced with
137 higher resolution ones.
138 </ul>
139</ul>
140
141
142
143
144<!-- ============================================== Section -->
145<HR ALIGN="Center">
146<font COLOR="#238E23">
[921]147<h2>Version: Geant4 9.2 (December 2008) </h2>
148</font>
149<HR ALIGN="Center">
150<br />
151
152<p>
153<b><u>User's Guide: For Application Developers</u></b>
154</p>
155<ul>
156<b>- Newly Added Chapters/Sections</b>
157 <ul>
158 <li>4.1.14. Importing ASCII Text Models
159 <li>Appendix Python Interface
160 </ul>
161<br />
162
163<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
164 <ul>
165 <li>2.1. How to Define the main() Program
166 <li>2.4. How to Specify Particles
167 <li>2.10. How to Visualize the Detector and Events
168 <li>2.8. How to Set Up an Interactive Session
169 <li>3.1. Class Categories and Domains
170 <li>4.1.2. Solids
171 <li>4.1.3. Logical Volumes
172 <li>4.1.6. Creating an Assembly of Volumes
173 <li>4.1.8. The Geometry Navigator
174 <li>4.1.9. A Simple Geometry Editor
175 <li>4.1.10. Converting Geometries from Geant3.21
176 <li>4.1.13. Importing XML Models Using GDML
177 <li>4.7. Parallel Geometries
178 <li>4.6. Object Persistency
179 <li>5.2. Physics Processes
180 <li>5.3.2 Definition of a particle
181 <li>5.6. Physics Table
182 <li>8.1. Introduction to Visualization
183 <li>8.2. Adding Visualization to Your Executable
184 <li>8.4. Controlling Visualization from Commands
185 <li>8.10. Making a Movie
186 <li>9.3. Advanced Examples
187 <li>Appendix CLHEP Foundation Library
188 <li>Appendix Development and debug tools
189 <li>Appendix Makefiles and Environment Variables
190 <li>Appendix Tips for Program Compilation
191 </ul>
192</ul>
193
194<p>
195<b><u>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</u></b>
196</p>
197<ul>
198<b>- Newly Added Chapters/Sections</b>
199 <ul>
200 <li>3.3. Particles
201 </ul>
202</ul>
203
204<p>
205<b><u>Installation Guide</u></b>
206</p>
207<ul>
208<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
209 <ul>
210 <li>1. Installation Introduction
211 <li>2. Installation Procedures
212 </ul>
213</ul>
214
215<p>
216<b><u>Physics Reference Manual</u></b>
217</p>
218
219<ul>
220<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
221 <ul>
222 <li>5.1 The Interaction Length or Mean Free Path
223 <li>6.1 Introduction
224 <li>7.2 Energy loss fluctuations
225 <li>7.4 Conversion from range cut to kinetic energy cut
226 <li>7.5 Multiple Scattering
227 <li>8.1 Ionization
228
229 </ul>
230</ul>
231
232
233<!-- ============================================== Section -->
234<HR ALIGN="Center">
235<font COLOR="#238E23">
[904]236<h2>Version: Geant4 9.1 (December 2007) </h2>
237</font>
238<HR ALIGN="Center">
239<br />
240
241<p>
242<b><u>User's Guide: For Application Developers</u></b>
243</p>
244<ul>
245<b>- Newly Added Chapters/Sections</b>
246 <ul>
247 <li>4.1.14. Saving geometry tree objects in binary format
248 <li>4.8. Command-based scoring
249 <li>5.2.1.3. Very Low energy Electromagnetic Processes (Geant4 DNA extension)
250 </ul>
251<br />
252
253<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
254 <ul>
255 <li>3.2. Global Usage Classes
256 <li>4.1. Geometry
257 <li>5.2.1.1. "Standard" Electromagnetic Processes
258 <li>5.2.5.4. Tracking of Photons in processes/optical
259 <li>9.2. Extended Examples
260 <li>Appendix 1. Tips for Program Compilation
261 <li>Appendix 2. Histogramming
262 <li>Appendix 5. Makefiles and Environment Variables
263 </ul>
264</ul>
265
266<p>
267<b><u>Installation Guide</u></b>
268</p>
269<ul>
270<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
271 <ul>
272 <li>1. Installation Introduction
273 <li>2. Installation Procedures
274 <li>3. Tips for Installing on Windows
275 </ul>
276</ul>
277
278<p>
279<b><u>Physics Reference Manual</u></b>
280</p>
281
282<ul>
283<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
284 <ul>
285 <li>6.2 PhotoElectric effect
286 <li>7.5 Multiple Scattering
287 <li>7.7 Ion Scattering
288 <li>11 Polarized Electron/Positron/Gamma Incident
289 <li>7.6 Single Scattering
290 </ul>
291</ul>
292
293
294<!-- ============================================== Section -->
295<HR ALIGN="Center">
296<font COLOR="#238E23">
297<h2>Version: Geant4 9.0 (June 2007) </h2>
298</font>
299<HR ALIGN="Center">
300<br />
301
302<p>
303<b><u>User's Guide: For Application Developers</u></b>
304</p>
305<ul>
306<b>- Newly Added Chapters/Sections</b>
307 <ul>
308 <li>5.8. Track Error Propagation
309 </ul>
310<br />
311
312<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
313 <ul>
314 <li>2.8 How to Set Up an Interactive Session
315 <li>3.7 Event Biasing Techniques
316 <li>4.1.8 The Geometry Navigator
317 <li>4.4 Hits
318 <li>5.2.1 Electromagnetic Interactions
319 <li>8.4 Controlling Visualization from Commands
320 <li>8.10 Making a Movie
321 <li>9.2.1 Extended Example Summary
322 <li>Appendix 6.1 Building on MS Visual C++
323 <li>Appendix 3 CLHEP Foundation Library
324 <li>Appendix 5 Makefiles and Environment Variables
325 <li>Appendix 4 C++ Standard Template Library
326 </ul>
327</ul>
328
329<p>
330<b><u>Physics Reference Manual</u></b>
331</p>
332<ul>
333<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
334 <ul>
335 <li>7.1 Computing the Mean Energy Loss
336 <li>7.3 Correcting the cross section for energy variation
337 <li>7.4 Conversion from range to kinetic energy
338 <li>7.5 Multiple Scattering
339 <li>8.1 Ionization
340 <li>8.2 Bremsstrahlung
341 <li>8.4 Positron - Electron Annihilation into Muon - Anti-muoni
342 <li>9.1 Ionization
343 <li>10.1 Ionization
344 <li>12.10 Hadron and Ion Ionisation
345 <li>21.3.2 Intra-nuclear Cascade
346 </ul>
347</ul>
348
349<p>
350<b><u>Installation Guide</u></b>
351</p>
352<ul>
353<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
354 <ul>
355 <li>1. Installation Introduction
356 <li>2. Installation Procedures
357 <li>3. Tips for Installing on Windows
358 </ul>
359</ul>
360
361<br /><br /><br />
362
363
364<!-- ============================================== Section -->
365<HR ALIGN="Center">
366<font COLOR="#238E23">
367<h2>Version: Geant4 8.3 (May 2007) </h2>
368</font>
369<HR ALIGN="Center">
370<br />
371
372<p>
373<b><u>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</u></b>
374</p>
375<ul>
376<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
377 <ul>
378 <li>1.1 Supported Computers and Operating Systems
379 <li>2.1 Using the Configure Script for installation
380 <li>3.1 Windows with the Cygwin Toolset and Microsoft Visual C++
381 </ul>
382</ul>
383
384<p>
385<b><u>User's Guide: For Application Developers</u></b>
386</p>
387<ul>
388<b>- Modified Chapters/Sections</b>
389 <ul>
390 <li>4.1.2 Solids
391 <li>4.1.11 Detecting Overlapping Volumes
392 <li>4.3 Electromagnetic Field
393 <li>5.2.5 Optical Photon Processes
394 <li>9.2.1 Extended Example Summary
395 </ul>
396</ul>
397
398
399<br /><br /><br />
400
401
402<!-- ============================================== Section -->
403<HR ALIGN="Center">
404<font COLOR="#238E23">
405<h2>Version: Geant4 8.2 (December 2006) </h2>
406</font>
407<HR ALIGN="Center">
408<br />
409
410<ul>
411<li><b>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing
412 environment</b>
413 <ul>
414 <li> Chapter 3, Tips for Installing on Windows
415 <ul>
416 <li>Section 3.1 Windows with the Cygwin Toolset and Microsoft Visual C++
417 <ul>
418 <li>Information on Visual Studio removed.
419 </ul>
420 <li>Section 3.2 Building Kernel Libraries DLLs
421 <ul>
422 <li>The note related to physics lists removed.
423 </ul>
424 </ul>
425 </ul>
426
427<li><b>User's Guide: For Application Developers</b>
428
429 <ul>
430 <li>Chapter 3. Toolkit Fundamentals
431 <ul>
432 <li>Section 3.7 Event Biasing Techniques
433 <ul>
434 <li>Subsection 3.7.2 Physics Based Biasing
435 <ul>
436 <li>New subsection added.
437 </ul>
438 </ul>
439 </ul>
440
441 <li>Chapter 4, Detector Definition and Response
442 <ul>
443 <li>Section 4.1, Geometry
444 <ul>
445 <li>Subsection 4.1.2, Solids
446 <ul>
447 <li>Information about GetSurfaceArea() added.
448 </ul>
449 <li>Subsection 4.1.6, Creating an Assembly of Volume
450 <ul>
451 <li>Destruction of an assembly volume modified.
452 </ul>
453 <li>Subsection 4.1.8, The Geometry Navigator
454 <ul>
455 <li>>Subsubsections '4.1.8.3 Navigation in parallel geometries' and
456 '4.1.8.2 Using the navigator to locate points' added.
457 </ul>
458 <li>Subsection 4.4.6, Concrete classes of <i>G4VPrimitiveScorer</i>
459 <ul>
460 <li>G4PSCellCharge information added.
461 </ul>
462 </ul>
463 <li>New Section 'Parallel Geometries' added.
464 </ul>
465 <li>Chapter 6. User Actions
466 <ul>
467 <li>Section 6.2 Optional User Actions
468 <ul>
469 <li>Information added to 'G4UserEventAction'
470 </ul>
471 </ul>
472 <li>Chapter 8. Visualization
473 <ul>
474 <li>Section 8.3 The Visualization Drivers
475 <ul>
476 <li>Subsection 8.3.8 RayTracer
477 <ul>
478 <li>More information added.
479 </ul>
480 </ul>
481 <li>Section 8.4 Controlling Visualization from Commands
482 <ul>
483 <li>Subsection 8.4.15 Cut view
484 <ul>
485 <li>The part 'Cutting away' modified.
486 <li>More reference added.
487 </ul>
488 <li>Subsection 8.4.16 Tutorial macros
489 <ul>
490 <li>More tutorial references added.
491 </ul>
492 </ul>
493 <li>Section 8.5 Controlling Visualization from Compiled Code
494 <ul>
495 <li>Minor correction at the introduction part.
496 </ul>
497 <li>Section 8.6 Visualization Attributes
498 <ul>
499 <li>Subsection 8.6.3 Forcing attributes
500 <ul>
501 <li>Added information on visualisation of a circle.
502 </ul>
503 </ul>
504 <li>Section 8.7 Enhanced Trajectory Drawing
505 <ul>
506 <li>Subsection 8.7.1 Default Configuration
507 <ul>
508 <li>Time slice interval added.
509 </ul>
510 <li>Subsection 8.7.2 Trajectory Drawing Models
511 <ul>
512 <li>Information of G4TrajectoryDrawByAttribute added.
513 </ul>
514 <li>Subsection 8.7.3 Controlling from Commands
515 <ul>
516 <li>Added the part 'Configure drawByAttribute-0 model'.
517 </ul>
518 </ul>
519 <li>Section 8.8 Filtering
520 <ul>
521 <li>New section added.
522 <li>Subsection 8.8.1 Trajectory Filtering
523 <ul>
524 <li>New subsection number added.
525 <li>Added information of G4TrajectoryAttributeFilter.
526 <li>Subsection 8.8.1.2 Example commands
527 <ul>
528 <li>More example added.
529 </ul>
530 </ul>
531 <li>Section 8.9 Polylines, Markers and Text
532 <ul>
533 <li>Section number changed from 8.8 to 8.9.
534 </ul>
535 </ul>
536 <li>Section 8.10 Making a Movie
537 <ul>
538 <li>New section added.
539 </ul>
540 </ul>
541
542 <li>Chapter 9. Examples
543 <ul>
544 <li>Section 9.2, Extended Examples
545 <ul>
546 <li>Subsection 9.2.1, Extended Example Summary
547 <ul>
548 <li>Hadronic example added.
549 </ul>
550 </ul>
551 <li>Section 9.3, Advanced Examples
552 <ul>
553 <li>The 'human_phantom' reference added.
554 </ul>
555 </ul>
556
557 <li>Appendix
558 <ul>
559 <li> Section 10.6, Build for MS Visual C++
560 <ul>
561 <li>Visual Studio related information added.
562 </ul>
563 <li>Section 10.1, Tips for Program Compilation
564 <ul>
565 <li>Subsection 10.1.5, Windows - MS Visual C++
566 <ul>
567 <li>Compilation with debug symbols changed.
568 </ul>
569 <li>Subsection 10.1.6, MacOS-X - g++
570 <ul>
571 <li>Optimization inforamtion changed.
572 </ul>
573 </ul>
574 </ul>
575 </ul>
576
577<li><b>User's Guide - For Toolkit Developers</b>
578 <ul>
579 <li> Chapter 2, Design and Function of Geant4 Categories
580 <ul>
581 <li>Section 13, Visualization
582 <ul>
583 <li>Subsection 'LineSegmentsPerCircle' added.
584 </ul>
585 </ul>
586 <li> Chapter 3, Extending Toolkit Functionality
587 <ul>
588 <li>Section, Visualization
589 <ul>
590 <li>Substantial update done.
591 </ul>
592 </ul>
593 </ul>
594
595<li><b>Physics Reference Manual</b>
596 <ul>
597 <li> Chapter 3, Electromagnetic Interactions
598 <ul>
599 <li>Section 11, Low Energy Extensions
600 <ul>
601 <li>Subsection Photoelectric effect
602 <ul>
603 <li>Minor modification.
604 </ul>
605 </ul>
606 <li>Section 7. Common to All Charged Particles
607 <ul>
608 <li>Subsection 5, multiple Scattering
609 <ul>
610 <li>New subsubsection 'Step Limitation Algorithm' and
611 'Boundary Crossing Algorithm' created.
612 <li>Other miscellaenous changes.
613 </ul>
614 </ul>
615 </ul>
616 <li> Chapter 11, Polarized Electron/Positorn/Gamma Incident
617 <ul>
618 <li>New chapter added.
619 </ul>
620 </ul>
621</ul>
622
623<br>
624
625
626<!-- ============================================== Section -->
627<hr>
628<font COLOR="#238E23">
629<h2>Version: Geant4 8.1 (June 2006) </h2>
630</font>
631<hr>
632<br />
633
634<ul>
635
636<li><b>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing
637 environment</b>
638 <ul>
639 <li> Chapter 1, Introduction
640 <ul>
641 <li>Section 1.1, Supported Computers and Operating Systems
642 <ul>
643 <li> update for Linux
644 </ul>
645 </ul>
646 <li> Chapter 2, Installation Procedures
647 <ul>
648 <li>Section 2.3, Installation of Hadronic Physics Lists
649 <ul>
650 <li> add note about physics list installation with global Geant4
651 libraries
652 </ul>
653 </ul>
654 </ul>
655<li><b>User's Guide: For Application Developers</b>
656 <ul>
657 <li> Chapter 4, Detector Definition and Response
658 <ul>
659 <li> Section 4.1, Geometry
660 <ul>
661 <li> Subsection 4.1.2, Solids:
662 <ul>
663 <li>Subsection 4.1.2.2, Solids made by Boolean operations: correct examples
664 <li>add new subsection 4.1.2.4, Tessellated solids
665 </ul>
666 <li> Subsection 4.1.4, Physical Volumes: correct source listing numbers
667 <li> Subsection 4.1.7, Reflecting Hierarchies of Volumes
668 <ul>
669 <li>correct source listing numbers
670 <li>update argument list for G4PhysicalVolumePair
671 <li>revision of discussion of Place() method and argument list
672 </ul>
673 <li> Subsection 4.1.6, Creating an Assembly of Volumes
674 <ul>
675 <li>correct figure numbers and code listing numbers
676 <li>add discussion of constituent volume access
677 <li>more discussion of MakeImprint method
678 </ul>
679 <li> Subsection 4.1.9, Geometry Setups: correct source listing numbers
680 <li> Subsection 4.1.11, Detecting Overlaps
681 <ul>
682 <li>correct figure numbers
683 <li>update DAWN links
684 </ul>
685 <li> Subsection 4.1.13, Importing XML models Using GDML: remove DAWN links
686 </ul>
687 <li> Section 4.2, Materials
688 <ul>
689 <li> Subsection 4.2.3, Recipes for Building Materials
690 <ul>
691 <li> Add C, Pb to NIST example
692 </ul>
693 </ul>
694 <li> Section 4.3, Electromagnetic Field
695 <ul>
696 <li> New subsection 4.3.3, Spin Tracking
697 </ul>
698 <li> Section 4.6, Persistency
699 <ul>
700 <li> New subsection 4.6.2: Using Reflex for persistency of geant4 objects
701 </ul>
702 </ul>
703 <li> Chapter 5, Tracking and Physics
704 <ul>
705 <li>Section 5.2, Physics
706 <ul>
707 <li>Subsection 5.2.1, Electromagnetic Interactions
708 <ul>
709 <li>Subsubsection 5.2.1.1, Standard EM processes
710 <ul>
711 <li> add list of steering options for standard EM processes
712 <li> add discussion of G4EmCalculator (which accesses cross sections,
713 stopping powers
714 </ul>
715 <li> Subsubsection 5.2.1.2, Low Energy EM processes
716 <ul>
717 <li> add discussion of options for photo-electron angular distributions
718 </ul>
719 </ul>
720 <li>Subsection 5.2.5, Optical Photons
721 <ul>
722 <li>add discussion of linear polarization
723 </ul>
724 </ul>
725 </ul>
726 <li> Chapter 8, Visualization
727 <ul>
728 <li> Section 8.3, The Visualization Drivers
729 <ul>
730 <li>Subsection 8.3.2 OpenGL
731 <ul>
732 <li>update discussion
733 <li>provide control options with or without Motif
734 </ul>
735 <li>Subsection 8.3.3 Open Inventor
736 <ul>
737 <li>update discussion
738 <li>update links
739 </ul>
740 </ul>
741 </ul>
742 <li> Chapter 9, Examples
743 <ul>
744 <li> Section 9.2 Extended: add links to and descriptions of TestEm0, TestEm13-17
745 <li> Section 9.3 Advanced: add pointers to three new examples:
746 <ul>
747 <li>cellular irradiation beamline
748 <li>effects of chip carrier on radiation monitoring devices
749 <li>estimate of effect of photonuclear reactions in calorimeters
750 </ul>
751 </ul>
752 <li> Chapter 10, Appendix
753 <ul>
754 <li> Subsection 10.1.5 Windows - MV Visual C++: add link to Installation Guide
755 <li> Subsection 10.1.6 MacOS-X - g++:update dynamic library discussion
756 <li> Subsection 10.5.1 GNUmake system in Geant4: add link to Installation Guide
757 </ul>
758 </ul>
759
760<li><b>Physics Reference Manual</b>
761 <ul>
762 <li> Chapter 7, Common to All Charged Particles
763 <ul>
764 <li> Section 5, Multiple scattering:
765 <ul>
766 <li> update parameter in formula for theta_0
767 <li> update stepping and model parameters
768 <li> add Mayol and Salvat reference
769 </ul>
770 </ul>
771 <li> Chapter 8, Electron Incident
772 <ul>
773 <li> New Section 5, Positron-electron annihilation to hadrons
774 <li> Section 6, Synchrotron Radiation: replaced by new version
775 </ul>
776 </ul>
777
778<li><b>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</b>
779 <ul>
780 <li> Chapter 19, Extending Toolkit Functionality: Visualization
781 <ul>
782 <li> updated
783 <li> new class diagram figure
784 </ul>
785 </ul>
786</ul>
787
788<br>
789
790
791<!-- ============================================== Section -->
792<hr>
793<font COLOR="#238E23">
794<h2>Version: Geant4 8.0 (December 2005) </h2>
795</font>
796<hr>
797<br />
798
799<ul>
800
801<li><b>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing
802 environment</b>
803 <ul>
804 <li> Chapter 1, Introduction
805 <ul>
806 <li>Section 1.3, Visualization Software: update links
807 </ul>
808 <li> Chapter 2, Installation Procedures
809 <ul>
810 <li>new Section 2.3, Installation of Hadronic Physics Lists
811 <li>Old section 2.3 becomes 2.4
812 </ul>
813 <li> Chapter 3, Tips for Installing on Windows
814 <ul>
815 <li>Section 3.1, Windows with Cygwin Toolset and Microsoft Visual C++
816 <ul>
817 <li> update download link
818 <li> remove paragraph on limitations of MS-VC++ optimizer
819 <li> add link to Getting Started with Cygwin
820 </ul>
821 <li>Section 3.2: add note on physics list installation
822 </ul>
823 </ul>
824<li><b>User's Guide: For Application Developers</b>
825 <ul>
826 <li> Chapter 2, Getting Started
827 <ul>
828 <li> Section 10, How to Visualize the Detector and Events
829 <ul>
830 <li> subsection 2.10.2, Visualization Drivers: re-written
831 <li> remove subsection 2.10.5, Scene, Scene Handler, and Viewer,
832 subsection 2.10.6, Sample Visualization Sessions, becomes 2.10.5
833 <li> remove subsections 2.10.7, 2.10.8 (duplication of viz commands in Section 7.1)
834 <li> new subsection 2.10.6, More Information on Geant4 Visualization: pointer to the Visualization chapter
835 </ul>
836 </ul>
837 <li> Chapter 4, Detector Definition and Response
838 <ul>
839 <li> Section 4.1, Geometry: split into 13 separate pages, one for each
840 subsection
841 <ul>
842 <li> Subsection 4.1.2, Solids:
843 <ul>
844 <li>added Mathematica volume pictures
845 <li>mention method to add pseudo-random points on volume surfaces
846 </ul>
847 <li> Subsection 4.1.4, Physics Volumes:
848 <ul>
849 <li>update parameterized volume sample listings to add surface
850 checking flag
851 <li>add paragraph on advanced parameterizations for nested parameterized
852 volumes
853 </ul>
854 <li> Subsection 4.1.11, Detecting Overlapping Volumes: add paragraph on
855 detecting overlaps at construction
856 </ul>
857 <li> Section 4.2, Materials
858 <ul>
859 <li> Subsection 4.2.2, Introduction to the Classes
860 <ul>
861 <li> G4Element paragraph: add discussion on element access
862 <li> G4Material paragraph: add link to material names
863 </ul>
864 </ul>
865 <li> Section 4.4, Hits
866 <ul>
867 <li> Subsection 4.4.1, Hit: added discussion of G4THitsMap
868 <li> New subsection 4.4.5: MultiFunctional Detector and Primitive Scorer
869 <li> New subsection 4.4.6: Concrete Classes of G4VPrimitiveScorer
870 <li> New subsection 4.4.7: G4VSDFilter and derived classes
871 </ul>
872 </ul>
873 <li> Chapter 5, Tracking and Physics
874 <ul>
875 <li>Section 5.2, Physics
876 <ul>
877 <li>Subsection 5.2.6, Parameterization
878 <ul>
879 <li>updates for use of G4Region
880 <li>Subsubsection 5.2.6.2, Overview of Parameterization
881 Components : new Fast Simulation figure
882 </ul>
883 </ul>
884 </ul>
885 <li> Chapter 7, Communication and Control
886 <ul>
887 <li> Section 7.1, Built-in Commands: update and expand visualization commands
888 </ul>
889 <li> Chapter 8, Visualization
890 <ul>
891 <li> Section 8.1, Introduction: re-written
892 <li> Section 8.2, New title: Adding Visualization to Your Executable
893 <ul>
894 <li> re-written
895 <li> was section 8.5
896 </ul>
897 <li> Section 8.3, New title: The Visualization Drivers - was section 8.6
898 <li> Section 8.4, New title: Controlling Visualization from Commands
899 <ul>
900 <li>updated, with expanded discussion of visualizing trajectories
901 <li>paragraph added on enhanced trajectory drawing
902 <li> parts of this section moved from Section 2.10 (in Getting Started Chapter)
903 <li> other parts from old Section 8.7 (Interactive Visualization)
904 </ul>
905 <li> Section 8.5, New title: Controlling Visualization from Compiled Code - was section 8.8
906 <li> Section 8.6, Visualization Attributes
907 <ul>
908 <li> updated, with new discussion of color mapping
909 <li> was section 8.3
910 </ul>
911 <li> New Section 8.7, Enhanced Trajectory Drawing
912 <li> Old sections 8.7 Interactive Visualization, 8.8 Non-interactive Visualization,
913 and 8.10 More on Visualization, removed and parts distributed to other sections.
914 Section 8.2, What Can Be Visualized? - removed.
915 </ul>
916 <li> Chapter 9, Examples
917 <ul>
918 <li> Section 9.1 Novice: updated and expanded discussion of example N07
919 <li> Section 9.2 Extended: update links
920 </ul>
921 <li> Chapter 10, Appendix
922 <ul>
923 <li> Subsection 10.5.2 Environment Variables: add RayTracer env. vars.
924 </ul>
925 </ul>
926
927<li><b>Physics Reference Manual</b>
928 <ul>
929 <li> Chapter 7, Common to All Charged Particles
930 <ul>
931 <li> Section 6, Transition radiation: improved discussion
932 <li> Section 9, Photoabsorption ionization model: improved
933 discussion of use in physics list
934 </ul>
935 <li> Chapter 22, Parton String Model
936 <ul>
937 <li> Section 1, use correct units for value of hbarc
938 </ul>
939 <li> Chapter 23, Chiral Invariant Phase Space Model
940 <ul>
941 <li> add new section on neutrino interactions
942 </ul>
943 <li> Chapter 33, Low Energy Neutron Interactions
944 <ul>
945 <li> new section 33.3 on using low energy paramterized models when
946 high precision models cannot be
947 </ul>
948 </ul>
949
950<li><b>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</b>
951 <ul>
952 <li> Chapter 13, Design and Function: Visualization
953 <ul>
954 <li> Class Design section: add discussion for creating a new graphics
955 system
956 <li> Modeling Sub-category section: add discussion of G4VTrajectoryModel
957 <li> new section on visualization attributes
958 </ul>
959 <li> Chapter 19, Extending Toolkit Functionality: Visualization
960 <ul>
961 <li> new section: Creating a new graphics driver
962 <li> new section: Enhanced trajectory drawing
963 </ul>
964 </ul>
965</ul>
966
967<br>
968<hr>
969
970<!-- ============================================== Section -->
971<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
972<H2>Version: Geant4 7.1 (June 2005) </H2>
973</FONT>
974<ul>
975
976<li><b>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing
977 environment</b>
978 <ul>
979 <li> Chapter 1, Installation introduction
980 <ul>
981 <li>Section 1.3 Visualization software - add link to WIRED</li>
982 </ul></li>
983 <li> Chapter 2, Installation procedures
984 <ul>
985 <li>"Using the configure script" is now section 2.1</li>
986 <li>"Installing Geant4 manually" is now section 2.2
987 <ul>
988 <li>change environment variable G4USE_G3TOG4 to G4LIB_BUILD_G3TOG4</li>
989 </ul></li>
990 </ul></li>
991 <li> Chapter 3, Tips for installing on Windows
992 <ul>
993 <li>Windows with the Cygwin toolset and MS Visual C++
994 <ul>
995 <li>change Cygwin links</li>
996 <li>add sentence on package selection</li>
997 <li>remove mention of Visual Studio .NET 7.1</li>
998 <li>update Cygwin installation instructions</li>
999 </ul></li>
1000 </ul></li>
1001 </ul></li>
1002
1003<li><b>User's Guide: For Application Developers</b>
1004 <ul>
1005 <li>Chapter 2, Getting Started
1006 <ul>
1007 <li>Section 2.1 How to Define the main() Program
1008 <ul>
1009 <li>Subsection 2.1.4 G4UIManager and UI Command Submission:
1010 replace N02VisManager with G4VisExecutive</li>
1011 </ul></li>
1012 <li>Section 2.3 How to Specify Materials in the Detector
1013 <ul>
1014 <li>add subsection 2.3.5: Define a Material from the Geant4 Material
1015 Database</li>
1016 <li>move subsection on Print Material Information to 2.3.6</li>
1017 </ul></li>
1018 <li>Section 2.9 How to Execute a Program
1019 <ul>
1020 <li>Subsection 2.9.4 Interactive Mode Driven by Command Lines:
1021 in source code listing 2.9.4 replace new MyVisManager with
1022 new G4VisExecutive</li>
1023 <li>Subsection 2.9.5 General Case: in source listing 2.9.5 replace new
1024 N03VisManager by new G4VisExecutive</li>
1025 </ul></li>
1026 <li>Section 2.10 How to visualize the Detector and Events
1027 <ul>
1028 <li>Subsection 2.10.2 Visualization Drivers: change G4VIS_BUILE to
1029 G4VIS_BUILD</li>
1030 <li>Subsection 2.10.3 How to Incorporate Visualization Drivers into an
1031 Executable: update to include G4VisExecutive</li>
1032 <li>Subsection 2.10.4 Writing the main() Method to Include Visualization:
1033 <ul>
1034 <li>update source listing 2.101 to include G4VisExecutive</li>
1035 <li>expand last paragraph
1036 </ul></li>
1037 <li>Subsection 2.10.8 Visualization of the Detector Geometry Tree:
1038 delete RegisterGraphicsSystem lines</li>
1039 </ul></li>
1040 </ul></li>
1041
1042 <li>Chapter 4, Detector
1043 <ul>
1044 <li> Section 4.1 Geometry
1045 <ul>
1046 <li>Subsection 4.1.2 CSG Solids
1047 <ul>
1048 <li>add new constructor for general twisted trapezoid</li>
1049 <li>add G4TwistedTrd</li>
1050 <li>subsection 4.1.2.2: Solids made by boolean operations - correction
1051 of first and second volume in discussion
1052 </ul></li>
1053 <li>Subsection 4.1.5 Touchables: Uniquely Identifying a Volume:
1054 clarification of first paragraph, and addition of arguments to
1055 method names</li>
1056 <li>New subsection 4.1.12 Dynamic Geometry Setups</li>
1057 <li>Subsection 4.1.13 move subsection on Importing XML Models Using
1058 GDML to here</li>
1059 </ul></li>
1060 <li> Section 4.2 Material
1061 <ul>
1062 <li>Subsection 4.2.2 Introduction to the Classes: add paragraph on
1063 internal material database</li>
1064 <li>Subsection 4.2.3 All the ways to build a material: add source
1065 listing showing how to use internal database</li>
1066 </ul></li>
1067 <li> Section 4.3 Electromagnetic Field
1068 <ul>
1069 <li>Subsection 4.3.2 Practical Aspects
1070 <ul>
1071 <li>"Creating a Non-Magnetic Field" replaced by
1072 "Creating an Electric or Electromagnetic Field</li>
1073 <li>update source listing 4.3.1</li>
1074 <li>add paragraph on alternate steppers</li>
1075 <li>update source listing 4.3.2</li>
1076 </ul></li>
1077 </ul></li>
1078 </ul></li>
1079
1080 <li>Chapter 5, Tracking and Physics
1081 <ul>
1082 <li> Section 5.2 Physics Processes
1083 <ul>
1084 <li> Subsection 5.2.1 EM Interactions:
1085 <ul>
1086 <li>add list of muon processes</li>
1087 <li>add paragraph on model classes</li>
1088 <li>add positron annihilation going to muons and to hadrons</li>
1089 <li>include physics list code showing model registration</li>
1090 </ul></li>
1091 </ul></li>
1092 </ul></li>
1093
1094 <li> Chapter 8, Visualization
1095 <ul>
1096 <li>Section 8.1 Introduction: replace MyVisManager with G4VisExecutive</li>
1097 <li>Section 8.5 Making a Visualization Executable
1098 <ul>
1099 <li>Subsection 8.5.2 How to Realize Visualization Drivers in an
1100 Executable: replace recipe with paragraph including G4VisExecutive,
1101 remove reference to ExN03VisManager</li>
1102 <li>Subsection 8.5.3 How to Write the main() Function
1103 <ul>
1104 <li>rewrite first paragraph to refer to G4VisExecutive</li>
1105 <li>replace MyVisManager with G4VisExecutive in source listings
1106 8.5.2, 8.5.3, 8.5.4 and text</li>
1107 <li>add verbosity codes</li>
1108 </ul></li>
1109 </ul></li>
1110 <li>Section 8.6 Visualization Drivers: change About_DAWN link</li>
1111 <li>Section 8.7 Interactive Visualization
1112 <ul>
1113 <li>Subsection 8.7.10 Visualization of Detector Geometry Tree
1114 <ul>
1115 <li>update with G4VisExecutive</li>
1116 <li>remove reference to ExN03VisManager</li>
1117 <li>remove "Additional Note" and "Action"</li>
1118 <li>remove verbosity codes, replace with new paragraph</li>
1119 </ul></li>
1120 </ul></li>
1121 <li>Section 8.8 Non-interactive Visualization
1122 <ul>
1123 <li>Subsection 8.8.1 Class G4VVisManager: replace MyVisManager with
1124 G4VisExecutive</li>
1125 <li>Subsection 8.8.6 Visualization of polylines and tracking steps:
1126 change runManager->set_userAction to runManager->SetUserAction</li>
1127 <li>add subsection 8.8.7 Visualization User Action</li>
1128 </ul></li>
1129 </ul>
1130
1131 <li> Chapter 9, Examples
1132 <ul>
1133 <li>Section 9.1 Novice Examples
1134 <ul>
1135 <li>Subsection 9.1.3 Example N02: update classes, remove
1136 ExN02VisManager and links</li>
1137 <li>Subsection 9.1.4 Example N03: remove ExN03VisManager and links</li>
1138 <li>Subsection 9.1.5 Example N04: update classes</li>
1139 </ul></li>
1140 <li>Section 9.2 Extended Examples
1141 <ul>
1142 <li>Subsection 9.2.1 Extended examples
1143 <ul>
1144 <li>add TestEm11</li>
1145 <li>add expgs (General Particle Source Example)</li>
1146 <li>add sentence to ExDiane and ParGeant4</li>
1147 <li>change link for ParGeant4</li>
1148 <li>add radioactive decay example</li>
1149 <li>add run and event example</li>
1150 </ul>
1151 </ul></li>
1152 <li>Section 9.3 Advanced Examples
1153 <ul>
1154 <li>Subsection 9.3.1 Advanced Examples
1155 <ul>
1156 <li>change links for hadron therapy, medical linac, radioprotection,
1157 xray fluorescence, cosmic ray charging</li>
1158 <li>add links for purging magnet, composite calorimeter, lAr
1159 calorimeter. RICH and Tiara</li>
1160 </ul></li>
1161 </ul></li>
1162 </ul></li>
1163
1164 <li> Chapter 10, Appendix
1165 <ul>
1166 <li>Section 10.4 C++ Standard Template Library: add reference book
1167 "Effective STL"</li>
1168 <li>Section 10.5 Makefiles and Environment Variables
1169 <ul>
1170 <li>Subsection 10.5.2 Environment Variables
1171 <ul>
1172 <li>change G4USE_G3TOG4 to G4LIB_USE_G3TOG4</li>
1173 <li>add zlib module (with g3tog4)</li>
1174 </ul></li>
1175 </ul></li>
1176 <li>Section 10.6 Build for MicroSoft Visual C++: change Cygwin link</li>
1177 <li>Section 10.7 Development and Debug Tools: update links</li>
1178 </ul></li>
1179 </ul></li>
1180
1181<li><b>Physics Reference Manual</b>
1182 <ul>
1183 <li> Chapter 7, Common to All Charged Particles
1184 <ul>
1185 <li> Section 7.2 Energy loss fluctuations: updated</li>
1186 <li> Section 7.5 Multiple scattering: more z sampling discussion and
1187 typo corrections</li>
1188 </ul></li>
1189 <li> Chapter 11, Low Energy Extensions
1190 <ul>
1191 <li> Section 11 Penelope physics
1192 <ul>
1193 <li>Subsection 5 Photoelectric effect: expanded discussion</li>
1194 </ul></li>
1195 </ul></li>
1196 <li> Chapter 24, Bertini Cascade Model: corrected pion absorption channels,
1197 re-write for English</li>
1198 </ul></li>
1199
1200<li><b>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</b>
1201 <ul>
1202 <li>Changed from article format to book format, re-organized sections
1203 into Introduction, Design and Function of Geant4 Categories, Extending
1204 Toolkit Functionality and Appendix</li>
1205 <li>Part 1, Introduction - move User Requirements Document discussion
1206 here (from old chapter 2)</li>
1207 <li>Part 2, Design and Function of Geant4 Categories
1208 <ul>
1209 <li> organize each chapter to have at least Design Philosophy and
1210 Class Design sections</li>
1211 <li> add text from general Geant4 paper to Design Philosophy chapters</li>
1212 </ul></li>
1213 </ul></li>
1214
1215</ul>
1216
1217<BR>
1218<HR>
1219<!-- ============================================== Section -->
1220<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
1221<H2>Version: Geant4 7.0 (December 2004) </H2>
1222</FONT>
1223<UL>
1224
1225<LI><B>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</B>
1226 <UL>
1227 <LI> Chapter 1, Installation introduction
1228 <UL>
1229 <LI> Section 1.1 Supported computers and operating systems - updated
1230 <LI> Section 1.3 Visualization software - update links
1231 <LI> Section 1.4 Software for Analysis and Histogramming - update link
1232 </UL>
1233 <LI> Chapter 2, Installation procedures
1234 <UL>
1235 <LI> Section 2.2 Using the configure script - revised
1236 </UL>
1237 <LI> Chapter 3, Tips for installing on Windows - update
1238 </UL>
1239
1240<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
1241 <UL>
1242 <LI>Chapter 4, Detector
1243 <UL>
1244 <LI> Section 4.1 Geometry
1245 <UL>
1246 <LI> Subsection 4.1.10 Converting Geometries from Geant 3.21 :
1247 conversion of Geant 3.21 magnetic field not supported
1248 <LI> Subsection 4.1.2 Solids: add discussion of GetCubicVolume method
1249 <UL>
1250 <LI> subsection 4.1.2.1: added G4TwistedBox and G4TwistedTrap
1251 </UL>
1252 <LI> Subsection 4.1.3 Logical Volumes : discussion of GetMass method
1253 </UL>
1254 <LI> Section 4.3 Electromagnetic Field
1255 <UL>
1256 <LI> Subsection 4.3.2 Practical Aspects : update discussion of
1257 creating field for part of volume hierarchy - add code snippet
1258 </UL>
1259 </UL>
1260 <LI> Chapter 5, Tracking and Physics
1261 <UL>
1262 <LI> Section 5.2 Physics Processes
1263 <UL>
1264 <LI> Overall grammar, spelling upgrade
1265 <LI> Update G4VProcess discussion with PreparePhysicsTable method
1266 <LI> Subsection 5.2.6 Parameterization : add subsections 5.2.6.9,
1267 5.2.6.10 on Gflash
1268 </UL>
1269 <LI> New Section 5.6 Physics Table
1270 </UL>
1271 <LI> Chapter 6, User Actions
1272 <UL>
1273 <LI> Added Section 6.3 User Information Classes
1274 </UL>
1275 <LI> Chapter 8, Visualization
1276 <UL>
1277 <LI> Section 8.7 Interactive Visualization
1278 <UL>
1279 <LI> Subsection 8.7.11: added three new tutorial macros: vis9, 10, 11
1280 </UL>
1281 </UL>
1282 <LI> Chapter 9, Examples
1283 <UL>
1284 <LI> Added Section 9.3 Extended Examples
1285 </UL>
1286 <LI> Chapter 10, Appendix
1287 <UL>
1288 <LI> Section 10.2 Histogramming
1289 <UL>
1290 <LI> Subsection 10.2.4 : mention extended electromagnetic examples
1291 </UL>
1292 </UL>
1293 </UL>
1294
1295<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
1296 <UL>
1297 <LI> New Chapter 5: Particle Transport (was section 12.1)
1298 <LI> Chapter 7, Common to All Charged Particles
1299 <UL>
1300 <LI> New Section 7.2 Energy loss fluctuations (was section 12.3)
1301 <LI> New Section 7.3 Correcting Cross Sections for Energy Variations (was
1302 subsection 12.1.3 (Integral approach)
1303 <LI> New Section 7.4 Conversion from Range to Kinetic Energy
1304 (was section 12.2)
1305 <LI> Section 7.5 Multiple scattering - updated
1306 <LI> Section 7.9 PAI model - updated
1307 </UL>
1308 <LI> Chapter 12, Miscellaneous - removed (see notes for Chapters 5 and 7)
1309 <LI> New Chapter 13: Shower Parameterizations
1310 <LI> Chapter 20, Parameterization-Driven Models
1311 <UL>
1312 <LI> Section 20.3 High energy model - new, expanded section
1313 </UL>
1314 </UL>
1315
1316<LI><B>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</B>
1317 <UL>
1318 <LI>Chapter 4, Guide to Extending Geant4 Functionality
1319 <UL>
1320 <LI> Section 1 Geometry
1321 <UL>
1322 <LI> discussion of creating a derived class from G4VSolid : add
1323 discussion of GetCubicVolume() method and add GetPolyhedron
1324 method
1325 </UL>
1326 <LI> Section 2 EM Fields : correct indeces for storing B and E field
1327 components
1328 </UL>
1329 </UL>
1330
1331</UL>
1332
1333<BR>
1334<HR>
1335<!-- ============================================== Section -->
1336<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
1337<H2>Version: Geant4 6.2 (June 2004) </H2>
1338</FONT>
1339<UL>
1340
1341<LI><B>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</B>
1342 <UL>
1343 <LI> Chapter 1, Installation introduction
1344 <UL>
1345 <LI> Updated supported platforms
1346 </UL>
1347 <LI> Chapter 3, Installation on a PC Machine
1348 <UL>
1349 <LI> Updated, subsection titles changed
1350 </UL>
1351 </UL>
1352
1353<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
1354 <UL>
1355 <LI>Chapter 4, Detector
1356 <UL>
1357 <LI> Section 4.1 Geometry
1358 <UL>
1359 <LI> Subsection 4.1.2 Solids
1360 <UL>
1361 <LI> added G4TwistedTubs discussion
1362 </UL>
1363 <LI> Subsection 4.1.4 Physical Volumes
1364 <UL>
1365 <LI> Subsubsection 4.1.4.2 Repeated volumes
1366 - update parameterized volumes
1367 </UL>
1368 <LI> Subsection 4.1.7 Reflecting Hierarchies of Volumes - add discussion
1369 of Divide() method
1370 </UL>
1371 </UL>
1372 <LI> Chapter 5, Tracking and Physics
1373 <UL>
1374 <LI> Subsection 5.2.5 Optical Photons
1375 <UL>
1376 <LI> New Subsubsection 5.2.5.3 inserted: Generation of Photons in
1377 Optical Processes - Wavelength Shifting
1378 <LI> Subsubsection 5.2.5.4: Tracking of Photons - sections on Rayleigh
1379 Scattering and Boundary Processes updated
1380 </UL>
1381 </UL>
1382 <LI> Chapter 8, Visualization
1383 <UL>
1384 <LI> Subsection 8.7 Interactive Visualization - bug fix
1385 </UL>
1386 <LI> Chapter 9, Examples
1387 <UL>
1388 <LI> Section 9.1 Novice Examples
1389 <UL>
1390 <LI> removed examplesReadMe
1391 <LI> updated links
1392 </UL>
1393 <LI> Section 9.2 Advanced Examples - expanded discussion of medical example
1394 </UL>
1395 <LI> Chapter 10, Appendix
1396 <UL>
1397 <LI> Section 10.1 Compilation Tips
1398 <UL>
1399 <LI> updated
1400 <LI> added subsection 10.1.6 for MacOS
1401 </UL>
1402 <LI> Section 10.2 Histogramming
1403 <UL>
1404 <LI> Subsection 10.2.2 replace Lizard subsection with PI subsection
1405 </UL>
1406 <LI> Section 10.5 Makefiles and Environment Variables
1407 <UL>
1408 <LI> Subsection 10.5.2 Environment Variables - updated
1409 </Ul>
1410 <LI> Section 10.6 Build for MS Visual C++ -update for Visual Studio
1411 </UL>
1412 </UL>
1413
1414<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
1415 <UL>
1416 <LI> Chapter 5, Gamma Incident
1417 <UL>
1418 <LI> Section 5.2 Compton Scattering
1419 <UL>
1420 <LI> Add total cross section references
1421 </UL>
1422 </UL>
1423 <LI> Chapter 6, All Charged Particles
1424 <UL>
1425 <LI> Section 6.2 Multiple Scattering
1426 <UL>
1427 <LI> Expanded discussion of true path length to geometrical path length
1428 <LI> Correction term added to Highland formula
1429 </UL>
1430 </UL>
1431 <LI> Chapter 7, Electron Incident
1432 <UL>
1433 <LI> Section 7.2 Bremsstrahlung
1434 <UL>
1435 <LI> Update cross section and energy loss parameterizations
1436 </UL>
1437 </UL>
1438 <LI> Chapter 15, Total Reaction Cross Section in Nucleus-nucleus Reactions
1439 <UL>
1440 <LI> Added section on Tripathi formula for light systems
1441 </UL>
1442 <LI> New chapter 17, Hadron Elastic Scattering at Medium and High Energy
1443 <LI> New chapter 25, Abrasion-ablation Model
1444 <LI> New chapter 26, Electromagnetic Dissociation Model
1445 </UL>
1446</UL>
1447
1448<BR>
1449<HR>
1450
1451<!-- ============================================== Section -->
1452<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
1453<H2>Version: Geant4 6.1 (March 2004) </H2>
1454</FONT>
1455<UL>
1456
1457<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
1458 <UL>
1459 <LI>Chapter 4, Detector
1460 <UL>
1461 <LI> Section 4.1 Geometry
1462 <UL>
1463 <LI> Subsection 4.1.2.2 Solids made by Boolean operations: updated
1464 <LI> Subsection 4.1.8 The Geometry Navigator: updated
1465 </UL>
1466 </UL>
1467 <LI> Chapter 5, Tracking and Physics
1468 <UL>
1469 <LI> Section 5.3 Particles
1470 <UL>
1471 <LI> Subsection 5.3.2 Definition of Particles: update baryon and meson
1472 masses and widths
1473 </UL>
1474 </UL>
1475 </UL>
1476
1477</UL>
1478
1479<BR>
1480<HR>
1481
1482
1483<!-- ============================================== Section -->
1484<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
1485<H2>Version: Geant4 6.0 (December 2003) </H2>
1486</FONT>
1487<UL>
1488
1489<LI><B>FAQs</B>
1490 <UL>
1491 <LI>Updated
1492 </UL>
1493
1494<LI><B>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</B>
1495 <UL>
1496 <LI>Section 1, Installation introduction: remove OPACS link, add XP to
1497 Windows
1498 <LI>Section 3, Tips for Installing on Windows: add link for creating project
1499 under Visual Studio
1500 </UL>
1501
1502<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
1503 <UL>
1504 <LI>Chapter 2, Getting Started
1505 <UL>
1506 <LI> Subsection 2.2.3 Choose a Solid: change hightOfTheTube to 25 cm.
1507 <LI> Section 2.8 Setting Up an Interactive Session: remove OPACS
1508 </UL>
1509 <LI>Chapter 3, Fundamentals
1510 <UL>
1511 <LI> Section 3.7 Event Biasing Techniques:
1512 <UL>
1513 <LI> updated code sample in subsection 3.7.1.2: Changing the Sampling
1514 and added weight window discussion
1515 <LI> added new subsection 3.7.1.6: The Weight Window Technique
1516 </UL>
1517 </UL>
1518 <LI>Chapter 4, Detector
1519 <UL>
1520 <LI> Section 4.1 Geometry
1521 <UL>
1522 <LI> Subsection 4.1.2 Solids: remove paragraph on Other BREP Solids
1523 <LI> Subsection 4.1.4 Phyiscal Volumes: add discussion of volume division
1524 <LI> Subsection 4.1.10 Importing Solid Models from CAD: removed
1525 </UL>
1526 <LI> Section 4.3 Electromagnetic Field
1527 <UL>
1528 <LI> Subsection 4.3.2 Practical Aspects: add discussion on creating
1529 field for part of detector, expanded discussion of stepper
1530 parameters
1531 </UL>
1532 <LI> Section 4.6 Persistency
1533 <UL>
1534 <LI> Subsections 4.6.2, 4.6.3, 4.6.4 deleted (obsolete)
1535 </UL>
1536 </UL>
1537 <LI>Chapter 5, Tracking and Physics
1538 <UL>
1539 <LI> Section 5.2 Physics Processes
1540 <UL>
1541 <LI> Subsection 5.2.1.2: add options for Low Energy angular dist.
1542 </UL>
1543 </UL>
1544 <LI> Chapter 8, Visualization
1545 <UL>
1546 <LI> Section 8.5 Making a Visualization Executable: move Table 8.1 to
1547 section 8.6
1548 <LI> Section 8.6 Visualization Drivers:
1549 <UL>
1550 <LI> Subsection 8.6.5: added link
1551 <LI> Subsection 8.6.8: added Table 8.1
1552 </UL>
1553 <LI> Section 8.7 Interactive Visualization: remove OPACS, update tutorial
1554 macros
1555 <LI> Section 8.9 Built-in Visualization Commands: change built-in command
1556 link to point to Section 7.1
1557 <LI> Expanded Subsection 8.10.2: Visualiztion of a Detector Geometry Tree
1558 </UL>
1559 <LI>Chapter 9, Examples
1560 <UL>
1561 <LI> Section 9.1 Novice Examples
1562 <UL>
1563 <LI> replace code in documentation area with
1564 links to checked-out code at
1565 http://pcitapiww.cern.ch/geant4/source/source/geant4
1566 <LI> add subsection 9.1.8: brief description of example N07
1567 </UL>
1568 <LI> Section 9.2 Advanced Examples: update
1569 </UL>
1570 <LI>Chapter 10, Appendix
1571 <UL>
1572 <LI> Section 10.1 Tips for Compilation : revise template repository
1573 discussion
1574 <LI> Section 10.5 Makefiles: remove OPACS, STEP references, add alternate
1575 path for hadronic physics lists
1576 <LI> Section 10.7 Development and Debugging Tools: update links and
1577 references
1578 </UL>
1579 </UL>
1580
1581<LI><B>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</B>
1582 <UL>
1583 <LI>Chapter 3, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
1584 <UL>
1585 <LI>Section 3.5, Geometry: update navigator, overall diagrams, add regions
1586 diagram
1587 <LI>Section 3.6 Electromagnetic Field: update field diagram
1588 </UL>
1589 <LI>Chapter 4, Guide to Extending Geant4 Functionality
1590 <UL>
1591 <LI>Section 4.1: Geometry, minor re-wording
1592 </UL>
1593 </UL>
1594
1595<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
1596 <UL>
1597 <LI>Chapter 6 Common to All Charged Particles
1598 <UL>
1599 <LI> Insert new section 6.1 on energy loss
1600 <LI> Section 6.1 Multiple Scattering: update equations 6.12 and 6.15
1601 and discussion of model parameters
1602 </UL>
1603 <LI>Chapter 7 Electron Incident
1604 <UL>
1605 <LI> Section 7.1 Electron ionization: revised
1606 <LI> Section 7.2 Electron bremsstrahlung: revised
1607 </UL>
1608 <LI>Chapter 8 Muon Incident
1609 <UL>
1610 <LI> Section 8.1 Muon ionization: revised
1611 </UL>
1612 <LI>Chapter 9 Charged Hadron Incident
1613 <UL>
1614 <LI> Section 9.1 Hadron ionization: revised
1615 </UL>
1616 <LI>Chapter 10 Low Energy Extensions
1617 <UL>
1618 <LI>Section 10.7 Bremsstrahlung
1619 <UL>
1620 <LI> Added subsection on angular distributions and 4 figures
1621 </UL>
1622 <LI>Section 10.11.7 Penelope Physics: Ionization added
1623 <LI>Section 10.11.8 Penelope Physics: Positron annihilation added
1624 </UL>
1625 <LI>Chapter 12 Miscellaneous
1626 <UL>
1627 <LI> Subsection 12.1.3: Integral transport method added
1628 <LI> Section 12.3 Computing Energy Loss: re-written
1629 </UL>
1630 <LI>New Chapter 15 Reaction Cross Sections for Nucleus-nucleus reactions
1631 <LI>Chapter 22 Binary Cascade: add subsection on light-ion reactions
1632 <LI>Chapter 29 Radioactive Decay: re-worded
1633 </UL>
1634</UL>
1635<BR>
1636<HR>
1637
1638<!-- ============================================== Section -->
1639<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
1640<H2>Version: Geant4 5.2 (June 2003) </H2>
1641</FONT>
1642<UL>
1643
1644<LI><B>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</B>
1645 <UL>
1646 <LI>Section 1, Installation introduction: compiler info, links updated
1647 <LI>Section 2, Installation procedures: minor rewording of section 2.1
1648 <LI>Section 3, Tips for Installing on Windows: minor update
1649 </UL>
1650
1651<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
1652 <UL>
1653 <LI>Chapter 3, Fundamentals
1654 <UL>
1655 <LI> Section 3.7 Event Biasing Techniques:
1656 <UL>
1657 <LI> added new subsection 3.7.1.6: The Weight Roulette Technique
1658 </UL>
1659 </UL>
1660 <LI>Chapter 4, Detector
1661 <UL>
1662 <LI> Section 4.1 Geometry:
1663 <UL>
1664 <LI> subsection 4.1.10 Importing Solid Models from CAD Systems: added note on support and installation
1665 <LI> subsection 4.1.11 Converting Geometries from Geant3.21: updated
1666 <LI> subsection 4.1.12 Detecting Overlapping Volumes: added new built-in test commands
1667 </UL>
1668 <LI> Section 4.4 Hits:
1669 <UL>
1670 <LI> subsection 4.4.1 Hit: added paragraph on G4Allocator
1671 </UL>
1672 </UL>
1673 <LI>Chapter 9, Examples
1674 <UL>
1675 <LI> Section 9.2 Advanced Examples: added reference to medical example using DICOM
1676 </UL>
1677 <LI>Chapter 10, Appendix
1678 <UL>
1679 <LI> Section 5 Makefiles and Environment Variables:
1680 <UL>
1681 <LI> added environment variable G4LIB_BUILD_G3TOG4 and description
1682 <LI> added STEP modules environment variables G4LIB_BUILD_STEP and G4USE_STEP
1683 </UL>
1684 </UL>
1685 </UL>
1686
1687<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
1688 <UL>
1689 <LI> New Chapter 2, Monte Carlo Methods (moved from Miscellaneous section of Electromagnetic processes
1690 <LI> New Chapter 3, Transportation
1691 <LI> Chapter 10, Low Energy Extensions
1692 <UL>
1693 <LI> New section 11: Penelope physics processes
1694 </UL>
1695 </UL>
1696
1697</UL>
1698
1699<BR>
1700<HR>
1701
1702<!-- ============================================== Section -->
1703<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
1704<H2>Version: Geant4 5.1 (April 2003) </H2>
1705</FONT>
1706<UL>
1707<P>
1708<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
1709 <UL>
1710 <LI>Chapter 5, Electron incident
1711 <UL>
1712 <LI> new section on e+e- -> mu+mu-
1713 </UL>
1714 <LI>Chapter 18, Chiral Invariant Phase Space Decay
1715 <UL>
1716 <LI>First four sections re-written
1717 </UL>
1718 <LI>Chapter 22, Evaporation Model
1719 <UL>
1720 <LI>Introduction added
1721 <LI>Model description added
1722 <LI>References updated
1723 </UL>
1724 </UL>
1725
1726<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
1727 <UL>
1728 <LI>Chapter 2, Getting Started
1729 <UL>
1730 <LI> Section 2.4, How to specify particles: subsection 2.4.2.1 updated for
1731 cuts per region, subsection 2.4.2.2 removed
1732 </UL>
1733 <LI>Chapter 3, Fundamentals
1734 <UL>
1735 <LI> Section 3.4 Run: subsection 3.4.4 Run manager corrected and updated
1736 </UL>
1737 <LI>Chapter 4, Detector
1738 <UL>
1739 <LI> Section 4.1 Geometry: subsection 4.1.3.1 added (cuts per region)
1740 </UL>
1741 <LI>Chapter 5, Tracking and Physics
1742 <UL>
1743 <LI> Section 5.2 Physics Processes: correction to paragraph on surfaces
1744 in subsection 5.2.5.3 (Tracking of Optical Photons)
1745 <LI> Section 5.3 Particles: subsection 5.3.2 Definition of a Particle,
1746 updated
1747 <LI> Section 5.5 Cuts per Region added
1748 </UL>
1749 <LI>Chapter 6, User Actions
1750 <UL>
1751 <LI> Section 6.1 Mandatory User Actions: updated class listing
1752 <LI> Section 6.2 Optional User Actions: expanded initial paragraph
1753 </UL>
1754 <LI>Chapter 7, Communication and Control
1755 <UL>
1756 <LI> Section 7.1 Built-in commands updated
1757 </UL>
1758 </UL>
1759</UL>
1760
1761<BR>
1762<HR>
1763
1764<!-- ============================================== Section -->
1765<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
1766<H2>Version: Geant4 5.0 interim update (January 2003) </H2>
1767</FONT>
1768<UL>
1769<P>
1770<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
1771 <UL>
1772 <LI>Chapter 6, Muon Incident
1773 <UL>
1774 <LI>Section 6.4, Pair production: re-written
1775 </UL>
1776 <LI>Chapter 8, Low Energy Extensions
1777 <UL>
1778 <LI>Section 8.1 Overview: minor re-wording
1779 <LI>Section 8.2 Compton Scattering: minor re-wording
1780 <LI>Section 8.3 Compton Scattering by Linearly Polarized Gamma Rays:
1781 equation correction (polarization vector)
1782 <LI>Section 8.4 Rayleigh scattering: corrected theta sampling (step 1)
1783 </UL>
1784 <LI>Chapter 20, New, Binary Cascade replaces Hadron Kinetic Model
1785 </UL>
1786</UL>
1787
1788<BR>
1789<HR>
1790
1791<!-- ============================================== Section -->
1792<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
1793<H2>Version: Geant4 5.0 (December 2002) </H2>
1794</FONT>
1795<UL>
1796<P>
1797<LI><B>Introduction to Geant4</B>
1798 <UL>
1799 <LI>FAQ, morefaq updated.
1800 </UL>
1801
1802<LI><B>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</B>
1803 <UL>
1804 <LI>All three sections updated
1805 </UL>
1806
1807<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
1808 <UL>
1809 <LI>Chapter 3, Toolkit Fundamentals
1810 <UL>
1811 <LI> Section 3.2, Global Usage Classes: update links
1812 <LI> Section 3.4, Run: updated state information
1813 <LI> Section 3.7, Event Biasing: updated and expanded
1814 </UL>
1815 <LI>Chapter 4, Detector Definition and Response
1816 <UL>
1817 <LI> Section 4.1, Geometry: updated
1818 <LI> Section 4.3, Electromagnetic Field: expanded, figures added
1819 </UL>
1820 <LI>Chapter 5, Tracking and Physics
1821 <UL>
1822 <LI>Section 5.2, Physics Processes
1823 <UL>
1824 <LI>Sub-section 5.2.5, Optical Photon Processes: updated
1825 </UL>
1826 <LI>Section 5.3, Particles: particle tables updated
1827 </UL>
1828 <LI>Chapter 7, Communication and Control
1829 <UL>
1830 <LI> Section 7.2, User Interface: updated state information
1831 </UL>
1832 <LI>Chapter 8, Visualization
1833 <UL>
1834 <LI> Section 8.3, Visualization Attributes: add new section on
1835 providing pickable information
1836 </UL>
1837 <LI>Appendix
1838 <UL>
1839 <LI>Section 10.1: Compilation Tips, removed HP, DEC sections
1840 <LI>Section 10.3: CLHEP, updated link
1841 <LI>Section 10.5: Makefiles, updated links
1842 <LI>Section 10.6: Buildfiles, updated links
1843 </UL>
1844 </UL>
1845
1846<LI><B>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</B>
1847 <UL>
1848 <LI>Chapter 3, Object Oriented Analysis and Design
1849 <UL>
1850 <LI>Section 3.2: Tracking, updated and partially re-written
1851 <LI>Section 3.9: Global Usage, updated
1852 </UL>
1853 <LI>Chapter 4, Guide to Extending Geant4 Functionality
1854 <UL>
1855 <LI>Section 4.1: Geometry, updated
1856 </UL>
1857 </UL>
1858
1859<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
1860 <UL>
1861 <LI>Chapter 3, Gamma Incident
1862 <UL>
1863 <LI>Section 3.1, Photoelectric Effect: added introduction
1864 <LI>Section 3.4, Gamma Conversion into a (mu+,mu-) Pair: re-written
1865 </UL>
1866 <LI>Chapter 4, Common to All Charged Particles
1867 <UL>
1868 <LI>Section 4.1, Multiple Scattering: re-written
1869 <LI>Section 4.2, Transition Radiation: re-written
1870 </UL>
1871 <LI>Chapter 5, Electron Incident
1872 <UL>
1873 <LI>Section 5.3, e+e- Annihilation: re-written
1874 <LI>Section 5.4, Synchrotron Radiation: re-written
1875 </UL>
1876 <LI>Chapter 6, Muon Incident
1877 <UL>
1878 <LI>Section 6.1, Ionization: re-written
1879 <LI>Section 6.2, Bremsstrahlung: re-written
1880 <LI>Section 6.3, Muon Photonuclear Interaction: re-written
1881 </UL>
1882 <LI>Chapter 7, Charged Hadron Incident
1883 <UL>
1884 <LI>Section 7.1, Ionization: re-written
1885 </UL>
1886 <LI>Chapter 10, Miscellaneous
1887 <UL>
1888 <LI>Section 10.5, Energy Loss Fluctuations: updated
1889 </UL>
1890 <LI>Chapter 12, Cross Sections in Photonuclear and Electronuclear Reactions
1891 <UL>
1892 <LI>Section 12.2, Parameterization of the Electronuclear Cross Sections :
1893 expanded and re-written
1894 </UL>
1895 <LI>Chapter 15, Parameterization Driven Models
1896 <UL>
1897 <LI>All sections re-written
1898 </UL>
1899 <LI>Chapter 16, Leading Particle Bias
1900 <UL>
1901 <LI>Updated
1902 </UL>
1903 <LI>Chapter 18, Chiral Invariant Phase Space Decay
1904 <UL>
1905 <LI>Updated
1906 </UL>
1907 <LI>Chapter 19, Bertini IntraNuclear Cascade Model
1908 <UL>
1909 <LI>NEW CHAPTER
1910 </UL>
1911 <LI>Chapter 21, Precompound Model
1912 <UL>
1913 <LI>Section 21.2, Simulation of pre-compound reaction: equation label
1914 change
1915 </UL>
1916 <LI>Chapter 22, Evaporation Model
1917 <UL>
1918 <LI>Section 22.2, Simulation of fragment evaporation: updated
1919 </UL>
1920 <LI>Chapter 24, Fermi Breakup Model
1921 <UL>
1922 <LI> Section 24.1, Fermi breakup simulation for light nuclei: remove
1923 subsection 24.1.1 (nuclear masses)
1924 </UL>
1925 <LI>Chapter 25, Multifragmentation Model
1926 <UL>
1927 <LI> minor updates
1928 </UL>
1929 <LI>Chapter 26, Low Energy Neutron Interactions
1930 <UL>
1931 <LI> Section 26.2, Physics and Verification: sections 26.2.2, 26.2.3,
1932 26.2.4 updated
1933 </UL>
1934 </UL>
1935</UL>
1936
1937<BR>
1938<HR>
1939
1940<!-- ============================================== Section -->
1941<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
1942<H2>Version: Geant4 4.1 (June 2002) </H2>
1943</FONT>
1944<UL>
1945<LI><B>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</B>
1946 <UL>
1947 <LI>Section 1, Introduction: updated supported platforms
1948 <LI>Section 2, PCMachines: updated
1949 <LI>Section 3, Unix Machines: updated
1950 </UL>
1951<P>
1952<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
1953 <UL>
1954 <LI>Chapter 2, Getting Started
1955 <UL>
1956 <LI>Section 2.8, update user interface description
1957 </UL>
1958 <LI>Chapter 3, Toolkit Fundamentals
1959 <UL>
1960 <LI> add section 3.7 on event biasing
1961 </UL>
1962 <LI>Chapter 4, Detector Definition and Response
1963 <UL>
1964 <LI> update section 4.1: Geometry
1965 </UL>
1966 <LI>Chapter 5, Tracking and Physics
1967 <UL>
1968 <LI>Update section 5.2.1.2: Low Energy EM Physics
1969 <LI>Update particle tables in section 5.3: Particles
1970 </UL>
1971 <LI>Appendix
1972 <UL>
1973 <LI>Section 10.2: Histogramming - updated
1974 <LI>Section 10.3: CLHEP - updated
1975 </UL>
1976 </UL>
1977<P>
1978<LI><B>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</B>
1979 <UL>
1980 <LI>Chapter 3, Object-oriented Analysis and Design of Geant4 Classes:
1981 updated and re-organized
1982 <UL>
1983 <LI>Section 3.3, Physics Processes: low energy class diagram removed -
1984 will not print in .ps
1985 <LI>Section 3.5, Geometry: new overall geometry UML diagram
1986 <LI>Section 3.6, Electromagnetic fields: new UML diagram
1987 <LI>Section 3.9, Global Usage: additional Booch diagrams
1988 </UL>
1989 <LI>Chapter 4, Guide to Extending Geant4 Functionality
1990 <UL>
1991 <LI>Section 4.4, Extending hadronic physics: hadronic class diagrams
1992 removed - will not print in .ps
1993 </UL>
1994
1995 <LI>Chapter 5, Appendix: all class diagrams updated
1996 </UL>
1997<P>
1998<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
1999 <UL>
2000 <LI>Section II
2001 <UL>
2002 <LI>Updated
2003 </UL>
2004 <LI>Section III
2005 <UL>
2006 <LI>Chapter 3: Gamma Incident
2007 <UL>
2008 <LI>Section 3.1 Photo-electric effect: re-written
2009 <LI>Section 3.2 Compton scattering: re-written
2010 <LI>Section 3.3 New section on gamma conversion to e+e- pair
2011 <LI>Section 3.4 New section on gamma conversion to mu+mu- pair
2012 </UL>
2013 <LI>Chapter 4: Common to All Charged Particles
2014 <UL>
2015 <LI>Section 4.1 Multiple scattering: re-written
2016 <LI>Section 4.2 New transition radiation section
2017 <LI>Section 4.5 Photoabsorption-ionization model: re-written
2018 <LI>Section 4.6 Photoabsorption cross section at low energies:
2019 re-written
2020 </UL>
2021 <LI>Chapter 5: Electron incident
2022 <UL>
2023 <LI>Section 5.1 Electron ionization: re-written
2024 <LI>Section 5.2 Electron bremsstrahlung: re-written
2025 <LI>Section 5.3 Synchrotron radiation: updated
2026 <LI>Section 5.4 e+e- annihilation: updated
2027 </UL>
2028 <LI>Chapter 8: Low Energy EM
2029 <UL>
2030 <LI>Section 8.3 new section on Compton scattering by linearly
2031 polarized gamma rays
2032 <LI>All other sections updated
2033 </UL>
2034 </UL>
2035 <LI>Section IV
2036 <UL>
2037 <LI>Chapter 11: Lepton-Hadron interactions: re-written
2038 <LI>Chapter 12: Cross Sections in Photonuclear and Electronuclear
2039 Reactions
2040 <UL>
2041 <LI>Section 12.1 Approximation of PhotoNuclear cross sections:
2042 re-written
2043 <LI>Section 12.3 Parameterization of ElectroNuclear cross sections:
2044 re-written
2045 </UL>
2046 <LI>Chapter 13: Coherent elastic scattering - new material
2047 <LI>Chapter 16: Leading Particle Bias - new chapter on MARS code
2048 <LI>Chapter 18: Chiral Invariant Phase Space Decay - updates
2049 </UL>
2050 </UL>
2051</UL>
2052
2053<BR>
2054<HR>
2055
2056<!-- ============================================== Section -->
2057<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
2058<H2>Version: Geant4 4.0 (December 2001) </H2>
2059</FONT>
2060<UL>
2061<LI><B>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</B>
2062 <UL>
2063 <LI>Updated sections 1,2 and 3
2064 </UL>
2065<P>
2066<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
2067 <UL>
2068 <LI>Chapter 1 re-written
2069 <LI>Chapter 2 updated
2070 <LI>Chapters 3, 4 re-organized into chapters 3 through 9
2071 <LI>Sections of chapters 3 through 9 re-written
2072 <LI>Appendix (formerly chapter 5) becomes Chapter 10
2073 </UL>
2074<P>
2075<LI><B>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</B>
2076 <UL>
2077 <LI>Chapter 3, Object-oriented Analysis and Design of Geant4 Classes:
2078 updated and re-organized
2079 <UL>
2080 <LI>Section 3.5, Geometry: most figures moved to Appendix
2081 </UL>
2082 <LI>Chapter 4, Guide to Extending Geant4 Functionality: some sections
2083 re-written
2084
2085 <LI>Chapter 5, Appendix: created to hold geometry class diagrams
2086 </UL>
2087<P>
2088<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
2089 <UL>
2090 <LI>Section I
2091 <UL>
2092 <LI>Occurrence and SetCuts sections moved to new Miscellaneous chapter
2093 in Section II.
2094 <LI>New introduction added (manual scope and definition of terms)
2095 <LI>Renamed section "Introduction"
2096 </UL>
2097 <LI>Section II
2098 <UL>
2099 <LI>Updated
2100 </UL>
2101 <LI>Section III
2102 <UL>
2103 <LI>Chapters re-ordered
2104 <LI>LE gamma conversion added
2105 <LI>Added chapter 10. Miscellaneous
2106 <LI>updates to most LE chapters
2107 </UL>
2108 <LI>Section IV
2109 <UL>
2110 <LI>Added chapter 12 - Cross Sections in Phot...
2111 <LI>Added chapter 13 - Elastic (empty)
2112 <LI>Added chapter 17 - Chiral Inv. Phase Space model
2113 <LI>Remove Theory-Driven Models chapter (was empty)
2114 <LI>Updates, correction to many other chapters
2115 </UL>
2116 </UL>
2117</UL>
2118
2119<BR>
2120<HR>
2121
2122<!-- ============================================== Section -->
2123<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
2124<H2>Version: Geant4 3.1 (16 April 2001) </H2>
2125</FONT>
2126<UL>
2127<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
2128 <UL>
2129 <LI>Updated sections: 3-6, 3-18
2130 <LI>Updated sections: 4-2
2131 <LI>Updated sections: 5-10
2132 </UL>
2133<P>
2134<LI><B>Software Reference Manual</B>
2135 <UL>
2136 <LI>Adapted to Geant4 3.1.
2137 </UL>
2138
2139</UL>
2140
2141<!-- ============================================== Section -->
2142<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
2143<H2>Version: Geant4 3.0 (December 2000) </H2>
2144</FONT>
2145<UL>
2146<LI><B>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</B>
2147 <UL>
2148 <LI>Update sections: 1, 2, 3
2149 </UL>
2150<P>
2151<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
2152 <UL>
2153 <LI>Updated sections: 2-10
2154 <LI>Updated sections: 3-6, 3-9, 3-10, 3-16, 3-20
2155 <LI>Updated sections: 5-2, 5-3, 5-5, 5-6, 5-7
2156 <LI>Updated sections: 4-10
2157 </UL>
2158<P>
2159<LI><B>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</B></B>
2160 <UL>
2161 <LI>Updated sections: Object-oriented anlaysis and design of Geant4 classes
2162 <UL>
2163 <LI>Physics Processes
2164 </UL>
2165 </UL>
2166<P>
2167<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
2168 <UL>
2169 <LI>Updated sections: Electromagnetic Interaction - Low Energy Extension
2170 <UL>
2171 <LI>Hadron and ion ionization
2172 </UL>
2173 </UL>
2174<P>
2175<LI><B>Software Reference Manual</B>
2176 <UL>
2177 <LI>More class descriptions added.
2178 </UL>
2179</UL>
2180
2181<!-- ============================================== Section -->
2182<BR><HR>
2183<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
2184<H2>Version: Geant4 2.0 (July 2000) </H2>
2185</FONT>
2186<UL>
2187<LI><B>Overview (Top Page)</B>
2188 <UL>
2189 <LI>Search engine installed.
2190 </UL>
2191<P>
2192<LI><B>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</B>
2193 <UL>
2194 <LI>Update sections: 1, 2, 3
2195 </UL>
2196<P>
2197<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
2198 <UL>
2199 <LI>Updated sections: 2-2, 2-7, 2-10
2200 <LI>Updated sections: 3-9, 3-10, 3-16(Previous/Next navigation
2201 problem fixed), 3-17, 3-20(Many obosolte descriptions corrected)
2202 <LI>Updated sections: 5-2, 5-7
2203 </UL>
2204<P>
2205<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
2206 <UL>
2207 <LI>Updated sections: Electromagnetic Interaction - Low Energy Extension
2208 <UL>
2209 <LI>Bremsstrahlung
2210 <LI>Compton
2211 <LI>Hadrons ionization
2212 <LI>Ionisation
2213 <LI>Ions
2214 <LI>Overview
2215 <LI>Photoelectric
2216 <LI>Rayleigh
2217 <LI>Relaxation
2218 </UL>
2219 <LI>Updated sections: Electromagnetic Interaction - Muon
2220 <UL>
2221 <LI>Bremsstrahlung
2222 <LI>Photonuclear interaction
2223 <LI>e+e- pair production
2224 </UL>
2225 </UL>
2226<P>
2227</UL>
2228
2229<!-- ============================================== Section -->
2230<BR><HR>
2231<FONT COLOR="#238E23">
2232<H2>Version: Geant4 1.0 (December 1999) </H2>
2233</FONT>
2234<UL>
2235<LI><B>Introduction to Geant4</B>
2236 <UL>
2237 <LI>Updated.
2238 </UL>
2239<P>
2240<LI><B>Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing environment</B>
2241 <UL>
2242 <LI>Update sections: 1, 2, 3
2243 </UL>
2244<P>
2245<LI><B>User's Guide: For Application Developers</B>
2246 <UL>
2247 <LI>Updated sections: 2-1, 2-9, 2-10
2248 <LI>Updated sections: 3-3, 3-4, 3-11, 3-12, 3-16, 3-17,
2249 <LI>Updated sections: Appendix-2, Appendix-6, Appendix-7
2250 </UL>
2251<P>
2252<LI><B>User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers</B>
2253 <UL>
2254 <LI>No modification.
2255 </UL>
2256<P>
2257<LI><B>Physics Reference Manual</B>
2258 <UL>
2259 <LI>Updated sections: Electromagnetic Interaction - Low Energy Extension
2260 </UL>
2261<P>
2262<LI><B>Software Reference Manual</B>
2263 <UL>
2264 <LI>Completely updated.
2265 </UL>
2266</UL>
2267
2268<!-- ============================================== Section -->
2269<BR><BR>
2270<HR>
2271<A HREF="../../Authors/html/subjectsToAuthors.html">
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