[G12] GSIM and eloss

[Michael C. Kunkel]

Thank you Cole,

"but if you set LOSS 0
all charged particles will just multiple scatter forever and never
stop until some data structure that stores the track steps
gets filled up and overflows."
Is exactly what I had meant.

BR
MK

On 4/30/13 10:17 AM, Cole Smith wrote:
>
> Not sure what you mean by 'breaks' but if you set LOSS 0
> all charged particles will just multiple scatter forever and never
> stop until some data structure that stores the track steps
> gets filled up and overflows.
>
> Maybe you want to use geantinos, which are massless
> chargeless particles sensitive only to geometry used for
> debugging where a particle is.  Geantinos have particle
> type 48.
>
> Cole
>
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, Michael C. Kunkel wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Anyone know how to turn off eloss in GSIM and not have it break?
>>
>> I flag LOSS 0 in my ffread as per the instructions on
>> http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/pdfdir/geant.pdf pg. 406
>> but this breaks.
>>
>> Thanks
>> MK
>>
>>

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