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Lognumber <a href="https://logbooks.jlab.org/entry/3813727" target="_blank">3813727</a>. Submitted by <a href="https://logbooks.jlab.org/user/jonesrt" target="_blank">jonesrt</a> on <a href="https://logbooks.jlab.org/entries?start_date=1594254191&end_date=1594261391&book=HDLOG" target="_blank">Wed, 07/08/2020 - 21:23</a>. </p>
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<p>I have made an update to ccdb that allows the magnetic field from the solenoid to penetrate inside the volumes occupied by the BCAL and DIRC detectors in the simulation geometry. Up until today, the interior of the BCAL modules and the entire DIRC container volume were assigned to a null magnetic field. This was originally motivated by the cost of tracking of shower particles in a magnetic field in Geant3 (hdgeant) coupled with the belief that it should not make a significant difference in electromagnetic response. Things have changed.</p><ol><li>hdgeant4 has mostly replaced hdgeant as the simulation engine</li><li>Geant4 does not show significant speed-up when simulating showers in the BCAL with the magnetic field disabled inside the lead sci-fi material</li><li>We are interested in other things beside shower propagation in the BCAL, eg. muons from J/psi decays, punch-through particles like high-momentum pions, etc.</li><li>The discontinuities in the magnetic field at the boundaries of the BCAL were causing problems in the tracking code of hdgeant4</li><li>We should not be making uncontrolled approximations for the sake of minor gains in computation speed</li></ol><p>This change was made to the master ccdb at 21:00 today.</p><p>-Richard Jones</p> </div>
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