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Geant 3.16 GEANT User’s Guide PHYS333<br />

Origin : M.Maire Submitted: 30.05.86<br />

Revision : F.Carminati Revised: 16.12.93<br />

Documentation :<br />

1 Subroutines<br />

Information about energy loss fluctuations<br />

CALL GDRPRT<br />

(IPART,IMATE,STEP,NPOINT)<br />

IPART<br />

IMATE<br />

STEP<br />

NPOINT<br />

(INTEGER) GEANT particle number;<br />

(INTEGER) GEANT material number;<br />

(REAL) step in cm;<br />

(INTEGER) number of logarithmically spaced energy points between EKMIN (default 10 keV)<br />

and EKMAX (default 10 TeV). See [BASE040] for more information on these value and how<br />

to change them with the ERAN input record;<br />

This routine calculates and prints the relevant parameters relative to the simulation of energy loss fluctuations<br />

due to ionisation and δ-ray production in STEP cm:<br />

N d-rays<br />

dE/I<br />

xi/I<br />

xi/Emax<br />

regime<br />

average number of δ-rays produced;<br />

average energy loss divided by the average ionisation potential;<br />

variable ξ/I of the Landau/Vavilov theory;<br />

variable ξ/E Max of the Landau/Vavilov theory;<br />

valid model to simulate energy loss fluctuations. Possible values are:<br />

Gauss<br />

Vavilov<br />

Landau<br />

Urbán<br />

ASHO<br />

PAI<br />

Gauss distribution;<br />

Vavilov distribution;<br />

Landau distribution;<br />

GLANDZ routine of Urban (see [PHYS332]);<br />

atomic harmonic oscillator approximation (see [PHYS334]);<br />

Photo-Absorption Ionisation model (see [PHYS334]);<br />

This routine has no action on the GEANT system. It is intended as a help to users understanding the model<br />

which GEANT may be asked to use, for instance via the routine GSTPAR [CONS210].<br />

2 Method<br />

When a charged particle traverses a portion of matter, it interacts with the electrons and the nuclei of the<br />

atoms. Most of these interactions are electromagnetic (quasi-) elastic collisions in which the incoming<br />

particle loses energy in the laboratory reference frame. The amount of energy loss in a thickness of material<br />

t is subject to two sources of fluctuations. The number of collisions can fluctuate, and at the same time<br />

the energy lost in each collision varies statistically. Both distributions are characterised by a Poissonianlike<br />

behaviour. We can distinguish between collisions where the energy transferred to the atomic electrons<br />

is enough to extract them from the atoms (ionisation with production of δ-rays) and collisions where the<br />

atomic structure is excited, without a complete ionisation (excitation). It has to be noted that the energy<br />

transferred to the nuclei is usually negligible. Momentum conservation considerations show that the ratio<br />

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