[Gate-users] Ion source: empty output

Débora Salvado debbiesal at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 20:04:35 CET 2015


Thanks Marc,

I add this line to the physics list:
/gate/physics/addProcess RadioactiveDecay

and tried to run: again no errors but an empty .sin file at the end.

Any more suggestions?

Débora Salvado

2015-01-15 18:36 GMT+00:00 Marc Chamberland <
MarcChamberland at cmail.carleton.ca>:

>  Hi Débora,
>
>  The first thing I would check is that your physics list has the
> radioactive decay process enabled.
>
>  Marc
>
>
>
>  __________________________
>
>  Marc Chamberland, MSc
> PhD candidate
> Department of Physics
> Carleton University
> Ottawa (ON)
>
>  On Jan 15, 2015, at 13:30, Débora Salvado <debbiesal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Dear Gate users,
>
>  I have my main .mac file parameterized for different sources.
>
>  It works for the following definition of source:
>
> /gate/source/addSource source1
> /gate/source/source1/gps/type Point
> /gate/source/source1/gps/centre 0. 0. 0. mm
> /gate/source/source1/gps/particle gamma
> /gate/source/source1/gps/energy 159. keV
> /gate/source/source1/setActivity 3000000. Bq
> /gate/source/source1/gps/angtype iso
>
>  However, when I try to run it for an ion source, with this definition:
>
> /gate/source/addSource source1
> /gate/source/source1/setActivity 3000000. Bq
> /gate/source/source1/gps/type Point
> /gate/source/source1/gps/centre 0. 0. 0. mm
> /gate/source/source1/gps/particle ion
> /gate/source/source1/gps/ion 53 123 0 0
> /gate/source/source1/setForcedUnstableFlag true
> /gate/source/source1/setForcedHalfLife 47520. s
> /gate/source/source1/gps/energytype Mono
> /gate/source/source1/gps/monoenergy 0. keV
> /gate/source/source1/gps/number 1
> /gate/source/source1/gps/angtype iso
> /gate/source/source1/gps/mintheta 0. deg
> /gate/source/source1/gps/maxtheta 180. deg
> /gate/source/source1/gps/minphi 0. deg
> /gate/source/source1/gps/maxphi 360. deg
>
>  It runs but the output projection file .sin is empty...
>  When I run with the first source instead, I get a .sin file with some
> data.
>  I don't really have an error, it's just that my simulation doesn't
> generate anything. Can someone help me figure out what's happening?
>
>  Regards,
>       Débora Salvado
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