Re: interface to retrieve material cross-section

Hi Susan,

The problem is that these kind of tables and their format are very much dependent on the transport engine and having the same kind of access in all MC's is not always obvious (and sometimes not even possible). We can extend to VMC level only some common denominator...

Best,
Andrei

Susan Kasahara wrote:
> 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
>
Received on Mon Feb 23 2009 - 16:44:06 CET