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