G4ParticleChangeForMSC.hh

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// G4ParticleChangeForMSC
//
// Class description:
//
// Concrete "Particle Change" class for Multiple Scattering process.
 
// Author: Hisaya Kurashige, 23 March 1998  
// Revision: Vladimir Ivantchenko, 16 January 2004
// --------------------------------------------------------------------
#ifndef G4ParticleChangeForMSC_hh
#define G4ParticleChangeForMSC_hh 1
 
#include "globals.hh"
#include "G4ios.hh"
#include "G4ThreeVector.hh"
#include "G4ThreeVector.hh"
#include "G4VParticleChange.hh"
 
class G4DynamicParticle;
 
class G4ParticleChangeForMSC : public G4VParticleChange
{
  public:
 
    G4ParticleChangeForMSC();
      // Default constructor
 
    virtual ~G4ParticleChangeForMSC();
      // Destructor
 
  // --- the following methods are for updating G4Step -----
  // Return the pointer to the G4Step after updating the Step information
  // by using final state information of the track given by a physics
  // process
 
    virtual G4Step* UpdateStepForAlongStep(G4Step* Step);
    virtual G4Step* UpdateStepForPostStep(G4Step* Step);
      // A physics process gives the final state of the particle
      // based on information of G4Track (or equivalently the PreStepPoint)
 
    virtual void Initialize(const G4Track&);
      // Initialize all properties by using G4Track information
 
  // --- methods to keep information of the final state ---
  // IMPORTANT NOTE: despite the name, what the class stores through its
  //                 methods are the "FINAL" values of the Position,
  //                 Momentum, etc.
 
    void ProposeMomentumDirection(const G4ThreeVector& Pfinal);
    void ProposeMomentumDirection(G4double Px, G4double Py, G4double Pz);
    const G4ThreeVector* GetMomentumDirection() const;
    const G4ThreeVector* GetProposedMomentumDirection() const;
    void SetProposedMomentumDirection(const G4ThreeVector& Pfinal);
      // Get/Set theMomentumDirectionChange vector: it is the final momentum
      // direction
 
    const G4ThreeVector* GetPosition() const;
    void ProposePosition(const G4ThreeVector& finalPosition);
    const G4ThreeVector* GetProposedPosition() const;
    void SetProposedPosition(const G4ThreeVector& finalPosition);
      // Get/Set the final position of the current particle
 
  // --- Dump and debug methods ---
 
    virtual void DumpInfo() const;
 
    virtual G4bool CheckIt(const G4Track&);
 
  protected:
 
    G4ParticleChangeForMSC(const G4ParticleChangeForMSC& right);
    G4ParticleChangeForMSC& operator=(const G4ParticleChangeForMSC& right);
      // Hidden copy constructor and assignment operator
 
  private:
 
    G4ThreeVector theMomentumDirection;
      // It is the vector containing the final momentum direction
      // after the invoked process. The application of the change
      // of the momentum direction of the particle is not done here.
      // The responsibility to apply the change is up the entity
      // which invoked the process
 
    G4ThreeVector thePosition;
      // The changed (final) position of a given particle
};
 
#include "G4ParticleChangeForMSC.icc"
 
#endif