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| 1 | + |
| 2 | + Geant4 7.1 - patch-01 Release Notes |
| 3 | + ----------------------------------- |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | + 25 October 2005 |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +List of fixes included in this public patch since the public release 7.1: |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | + o Configuration: |
| 10 | + ------------- |
| 11 | + + Excluded usage of unnecessary 'ranlib' at creation of the libraries |
| 12 | + for WIN32-VC system. Fixes an observed problem of debug-symbols |
| 13 | + corruption. |
| 14 | + + Synchronized CXXFLAGS warning options of WIN32-g++ with Linux-g++. |
| 15 | + + Fixed Configure script for --incflags and --ldflags options. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | + o Event: |
| 18 | + ----- |
| 19 | + + Corrected typo in printout in G4GeneralParticleMessenger. |
| 20 | + Addresses problem report #786. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | + o Geometry: |
| 23 | + -------- |
| 24 | + + navigation |
| 25 | + o G4DrawVoxels: removed unnecessary 'panic' message in |
| 26 | + ComputeVoxelPolyhedra() and some code cleanup. |
| 27 | + + solids/BREPS |
| 28 | + o Fixed problem of double-deletion in G4BREPSolidPolyhedra and |
| 29 | + G4BREPSolidPCone destructors. |
| 30 | + + solids/CSG |
| 31 | + o Fixed bug in G4Sphere::DistanceToOut(p,v): added check for |
| 32 | + intersection with double cone. |
| 33 | + o Fixed bug in G4Para::DistanceToOut(p,v) for the case v.x()<0. |
| 34 | + Following problem report from user posted on Hypernews (#452). |
| 35 | + o Improved implementation for DistanceToIn/Out() in G4Torus to make use |
| 36 | + of G4JTPolynomialSolver for precise calculation of the intersections. |
| 37 | + + solids/specific: |
| 38 | + o Fixed compilation warning on WIN32-VC for G4VSurface.cc. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | + o Global: |
| 41 | + ------ |
| 42 | + + G4Allocator: initialise esplicitely data in copy-ctor. |
| 43 | + + G4AllocatorPool: added default dummy argument to ctor to allow for |
| 44 | + default-ctor |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | + o Parameterisations: |
| 47 | + ----------------- |
| 48 | + + Added overflow protection in method GenerateRadius() for |
| 49 | + GFlashHomoShowerParamterisation in the 'gflash' module. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | + o Particles: |
| 52 | + --------- |
| 53 | + + Fix to prohibit creation of ions in 'PreInit' state to make sure |
| 54 | + that proper processes will be attached to the ions. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | + o Electromagnetic processes: |
| 57 | + ------------------------- |
| 58 | + + high-energy: |
| 59 | + o Fix a misprint in G4BetheBlochNoDeltaModel and minor cleanup. |
| 60 | + + muons: |
| 61 | + o In all energy loss models return protection against the case |
| 62 | + tmin>tmax (fixes bug report). |
| 63 | + o Fix angular distributions of secondaries and 4-momentum balance |
| 64 | + in G4MuBremsstrahlungModel and G4MuPairProductionModel. |
| 65 | + o Added protection in G4MuPairProductionModel needed for sampling |
| 66 | + of pair energy in the case of low cuts. |
| 67 | + + standard: |
| 68 | + o In all energy loss models return protection against the case |
| 69 | + tmin>tmax (fixes bug report). |
| 70 | + o Fix for initialisation of G4eBremsstrahlungModel. |
| 71 | + o Fix a bug in calculation of chemical correction in G4BraggIonModel |
| 72 | + and fix in G4BraggModel for problem observed when increasing |
| 73 | + precision using standard model and chemical effect. |
| 74 | + + utils: |
| 75 | + o G4VEnergyLossProcess: return number protections against numerical |
| 76 | + imprecision, which were used in version 7.0 and removed in 7.1 |
| 77 | + (fixes bug report) |
| 78 | + o Set default lambdaFactor to 0.8 for integral mode (improvement in |
| 79 | + CPU performance for low cuts). |
| 80 | + o G4VEmProcess: use integral mode only for charged particles. |
| 81 | + o G4EmModelManager: fix a cut calculation for the e+e- pair |
| 82 | + production physics process. |
| 83 | + o G4VMultipleScattering: fixed error in a protection in |
| 84 | + GetContinuousStepLimit(). |
| 85 | + + xrays: |
| 86 | + o Changed variable name 'MeanNumPhotons' to 'MeanNumberOfPhotons' in |
| 87 | + G4Scintillation and G4Cerenkov to conform with the documentation in |
| 88 | + the Application Developers Guide. |
| 89 | + o Added G4ProcessType identifier to all processes constructors. |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | + o Hadronic Processes: |
| 92 | + ------------------ |
| 93 | + + management: |
| 94 | + o Correctly set the type of a hadronic process. |
| 95 | + Fixes problem report #744. |
| 96 | + + models/chiral_inv_phase_space/body: |
| 97 | + o Memory leak fix for nuclear mass management in G4QPDGCode to use |
| 98 | + G4 masses of nuclear fragments. |
| 99 | + + models/low_energy: |
| 100 | + o Fix in elastic scattering for the case of target hydrogen: use |
| 101 | + relativistic kinematic for the generation of the final state. |
| 102 | + Fix tested in HARP. |
| 103 | + + stopping: |
| 104 | + o Fixed bug in time of e- produced in bound decay of mu-. |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | + o Management of processes: |
| 107 | + ----------------------- |
| 108 | + + Added forward declaration of G4UImessenger in G4ProcessTable header. |
| 109 | + Fixes problem report #768. |
| 110 | + |
| 111 | + o Optical Processes: |
| 112 | + ----------------- |
| 113 | + + Added G4ProcessType identifier to all processes constructors. |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | + o Run: |
| 116 | + --- |
| 117 | + + Removed unnecessary usage of G4Allocator for allocation of a run. |
| 118 | + |
| 119 | + o Tracking: |
| 120 | + -------- |
| 121 | + + Fix in G4SteppingManager::InvokeAlongStepDoItProcs() for problem |
| 122 | + report #761. |
| 123 | + + Fix in G4SteppingManager::DefinePhysicalStepLength() for the order |
| 124 | + of execution of 'ExclusivelyForced' processes like Fast-Simulation. |
| 125 | + Problem reported and fixed in CMS and ATLAS. |
| 126 | + |
| 127 | + o Physics lists: |
| 128 | + ------------- |
| 129 | + + hadronic: corrected text for the installation in README. |
| 130 | + |
| 131 | + o Examples: |
| 132 | + -------- |
| 133 | + + Updated reference outputs. |
| 134 | + + extended/electromagnetic/TestEm9 |
| 135 | + o Fixed problem for changing cuts between runs. |
| 136 | + + extendedeventgenerator/exgps |
| 137 | + o Fixed GNUMakefile for linking with AIDA on WIN32-VC. |
| 138 | + Fixes problem report #767. |
| 139 | + + extended/medical/GammaTherapy |
| 140 | + o Added vis.mac and histogram type (aida, root, hbook). |
| 141 | + o Use standard angular distribution for low-energy PhotoElectric. |
| 142 | + + extended/persistency |
| 143 | + o Added missing EXTRALIBS to link list for specialised setup. |
| 144 | + + extended/radioactivedecay/exrdm |
| 145 | + o Fixed GNUMakefile for linking with AIDA on WIN32-VC. |
| 146 | + Fixes problem report #767. |
| 147 | + + novice/N03 |
| 148 | + o RunAction: compute and print statistic at the end of the run. |
| 149 | + |
| 150 | + ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 151 | + |
| 152 | + Technical Notes |
| 153 | + --------------- |
| 154 | + |
| 155 | + o This patch should be applied on top of release 7.1. |
| 156 | + o Technical notes distributed for release 7.1 are also applicable and |
| 157 | + valid for this patch. |
| 158 | + |
| 159 | +The code and rebuilt binary libraries for release 7.1 are available through |
| 160 | +our "Source Code" Web page: http://cern.ch/geant4 |
| 161 | + |
| 162 | +Please refer to the Geant4 User Documentation: |
| 163 | + http://cern.ch/geant4/G4UsersDocuments/Overview/html |
| 164 | +for further information about using Geant4. |
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