Re: interface to retrieve material cross-section

Susan,

Since you are the first one requesting this feature, would you be willing to investigate/implement it ?

Rene

Susan Kasahara wrote:
> Hi VMC team,
> A related request would be to have access to the GCMULO contents to retrieve
> the EKMIN, EKMAX values so that I have the range of KE for which the dE/dX
> and cross-section tables have been calculated. I understand that this can
> be done through the TGeant3 interface, but if this could be done in a generic
> way via the TVirtualMC interface that would be better.
> Thanks again,
> -Sue
>
>
>> Hi VMC experts,
>> I'd like to retrieve dE/dX and cross-section tables via the TVirtualMC interface
>> for a given material. This functionality is that offered in Geant3 by:
>>
>> CALL GFTMAT (IMATE,IPART,CHMECA,KDIM,TKIN,VALUE*,PCUT*,IXST*)
>>
>> I see that TGeant3 offers the Gftmat(...) function, but the interface is
>> not supported by the base class TVirtualMC. Could use please add an interface
>> to access the dE/dX and cross-section tables by material to the TVirtualMC
>> class? Or is there already some other method of accessing this information
>> without invoking the derived class method for each concrete monte carlo?
>> Thanks very much for your help!
>> -Sue Kasahara
>>
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Received on Mon Feb 23 2009 - 08:42:41 CET