G4HadronicParameters.hh

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// ClassName:      G4HadronicParameters
//
// Author:         2018 Alberto Ribon
//
// Description:    Singleton to keep global hadronic parameters.
//
//                 For the time being, at least, offers only "getters" but
//                 not "setters", i.e. a recompilation is needed to change
//                 the default parameters.
//
// Modified:
//
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//
#ifndef G4HadronicParameters_h
#define G4HadronicParameters_h 1

#include "globals.hh"


class G4HadronicParameters {
  public:

    static G4HadronicParameters* Instance();
    ~G4HadronicParameters();

    G4double GetMaxEnergy() const;
    // Upper limit for Geant4 hadronic physics, for any application.
    // Any hadronic model, physics list builder and constructor should use this method
    // instead of putting an arbitrary value in the code.
    // Any application which tries to use hadronic physics for an energy higher than this limit
    // will get a run-time crash, because no model is found.

    G4double GetMinEnergyTransitionFTF_Cascade() const;
    G4double GetMaxEnergyTransitionFTF_Cascade() const;
    // Recommended energy limits, for physics lists, of the transition region
    // between the Fritiof (FTF) string model and the intranuclear cascade model,
    // either Bertini (BERT) or Binary (BIC). 

    G4double GetMinEnergyTransitionQGS_FTF() const;
    G4double GetMaxEnergyTransitionQGS_FTF() const;
    // Recommended energy limits, for physics lists, of the transition region
    // between the two strings models - the Quark Gluon String (QGS) model and
    // the Fritiof (FTF) model.

  private:
    G4HadronicParameters();
    static G4HadronicParameters* sInstance;

    G4double fMaxEnergy;
    G4double fMinEnergyTransitionFTF_Cascade;
    G4double fMaxEnergyTransitionFTF_Cascade;
    G4double fMinEnergyTransitionQGS_FTF;
    G4double fMaxEnergyTransitionQGS_FTF;
};


inline G4double G4HadronicParameters::GetMaxEnergy() const { 
  return fMaxEnergy;
}

inline G4double G4HadronicParameters::GetMinEnergyTransitionFTF_Cascade() const { 
  return fMinEnergyTransitionFTF_Cascade;
}
inline G4double G4HadronicParameters::GetMaxEnergyTransitionFTF_Cascade() const { 
  return fMaxEnergyTransitionFTF_Cascade;
}

inline G4double G4HadronicParameters::GetMinEnergyTransitionQGS_FTF() const { 
  return fMinEnergyTransitionQGS_FTF;
}
inline G4double G4HadronicParameters::GetMaxEnergyTransitionQGS_FTF() const { 
  return fMaxEnergyTransitionQGS_FTF;
}

#endif