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// $Id: G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh.hh,v 1.5 2006/06/29 19:36:07 gunter Exp $
// GEANT4 tag $Name: geant4-09-04-ref-00 $
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// File name:     G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh.hh
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// Author:        Capra Riccardo
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// Creation date: May 2005
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// History:
// -----------
// 02 May 2005  R. Capra         1st implementation
//
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#ifndef   G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh_hh
 #define  G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh_hh
 
 #include "G4VLowEnergyDiscretePhotonProcess.hh"

// G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh
// The class implements the polarized Rayleigh process
//
//          Specialization of G4VLowEnergyDiscretePhotonProcess class.
//          This is a preliminary implementation of the Rayleigh polarized process.
//          Reference articles are:
// 
// Rayleigh process:                     The Quantum Theory of Radiation
//                                       W. Heitler,       Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford (1954)                                                 
// Scattering function:                   A simple model of photon transport
//                                        D.E. Cullen,      Nucl. Instr. Meth. in Phys. Res. B 101 (1995) 499-510                                       
// Polarization of the outcoming photon:  Beam test of a prototype detector array for the PoGO astronomical hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray polarimeter
//                                        T. Mizuno et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. in Phys. Res. A 540 (2005) 158-168                                        
// 
class G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh : public G4VLowEnergyDiscretePhotonProcess
{
public:
  //   Class constructor
  //   processName The name of the process
  G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh(const G4String &processName = "polarLowEnRayleigh");

  //   Class destructor
  inline virtual ~G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh(void) {}

  //   Calculates the new photon direction and polarization
  //
  //   In the code the following definitions are used
  //   aTrack The track
  //   aStep  The step
  //   The proposed changes for the photon
  virtual G4VParticleChange* PostStepDoIt(const G4Track& aTrack, const G4Step& aStep);
   
private:

  //   Hides copy constructor
  G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh(const G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh&);

  //   Hides assignment operator
  G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh & operator=(const G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh&);

  //   Generates \f$cos \left ( \theta\right )\f$ of the scattered photon
  //   incomingPhotonEnergy The energy of the incoming photon
  //   zAtom Atomic number
  //   \f$cos \left ( \theta\right )\f$
  G4double GenerateCosTheta(G4double incomingPhotonEnergy, G4int zAtom) const;
   
  //   Generates \f$\phi\f$ of the scattered photon
  //   cosTheta \f$cos \left ( \theta\right )\f$ of the scattered photon
  //    \f$\phi\f$
  G4double GeneratePhi(G4double cosTheta) const;

  //   Generates the polarization direction \f$\beta\f$ in the plane x, y relative to the x direction
  //   \f$\beta\f$
  G4double GeneratePolarizationAngle(void) const;
   
  //   Lower energy limit due to the available data in the physics tables
  G4double intrinsicLowEnergyLimit;

  //   Higher energy limit due to the available data in the physics tables
  G4double intrinsicHighEnergyLimit;
};

#endif /* G4LowEnergyPolarizedRayleigh_hh */