G4ParticleChangeForMSC.hh

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// ------------------------------------------------------------
//  GEANT 4 class header file 
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// 
// Class Description
//   This class is special "Particle Change" for Multiple Scattering process
//
// ------------------------------------------------------------
//   Implemented for the new scheme                 23 Mar. 1998  H.Kurahige
//   Add Get/SetMomentumDirectionChange              6 Feb. 1999  H.Kurashige 
//   Update for model variant of msc                16 Jan  2004  V.Ivanchenko
//
// -------------------------------------------------------------
#ifndef G4ParticleChangeForMSC_h
#define G4ParticleChangeForMSC_h 1

#include "globals.hh"
#include "G4ios.hh"
#include "G4ThreeVector.hh"
#include "G4ThreeVector.hh"
class G4DynamicParticle;
#include "G4VParticleChange.hh"

class G4ParticleChangeForMSC: public G4VParticleChange
{ 
  public:
    // default constructor
    G4ParticleChangeForMSC();

    // destructor
    virtual ~G4ParticleChangeForMSC();

  protected:
    // hide copy constructor and assignment operaor as protected
    G4ParticleChangeForMSC(const G4ParticleChangeForMSC &right);
    G4ParticleChangeForMSC & operator=(const G4ParticleChangeForMSC &right);


  public: // with description
    // ----------------------------------------------------
    // --- 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 propoerties by using G4Track information

    // ----------------------------------------------------
    //--- methods to keep information of the final state--
    //  IMPORTANT NOTE: Although the name of the class and methods are
    //   "Change", what it stores (and returns in get) 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.

  public:
    virtual void DumpInfo() const;
    // for Debug
    virtual G4bool CheckIt(const G4Track&);

  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