[Gate-users] adding not-standard physic process to GATE

[Wojciech Krzemien]

Dear David and Jared,
Thank you for your suggestions. I will have a look at GateVSource first.

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Best regards,
Wojtek

On 29.04.2016 16:27, David Sarrut wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I agree: 
> - for a new type of source: add in Gate as described by Jared. 
> - for a new process, it is better to add it via Geant way. Be careful
> that GatePhysicProcess is outdated, since the new G4 "physic list"
> mechanism. 
> 
> David
> 
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:54 PM, STRYDHORST Jared
> <Jared.STRYDHORST at cea.fr <mailto:Jared.STRYDHORST at cea.fr>> wrote:
> 
>     Are you trying to model a process or a source? If you're trying to
>     create a custom source you probably want to create it in GATE rather
>     than Geant4. One way is to create a subclass of GateVSource and
>     override at least GeneratePrimaries(). If you have any user settable
>     parameters, you'll need to create an associated Messenger class as
>     well. An additional case also has to be added to
>     GateSourceMgr::AddSource() to allow the new source type to be created.
>     GEANT shouldn't need to be touched.
> 
>     Jared STRYDHORST
> 
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>     Objet : [Gate-users] adding not-standard physic process to GATE
> 
>     Dear GATE Developers,
>     I am a member of the J-Pet collaboration in Poland and we are
>     constructing a prototype TOF-PET scanner. The GATE package has been very
>     useful for us in several stages of the project.
> 
>     We would like to make some studies of some non-standard physics reaction
>     e.g. 3-gamma decay.
>     Since as far as I know such a model is not available so far one would
>     need to implement it.
>     I read the topic in howto
>     (http://wiki.opengatecollaboration.org/index.php/GatePhysicsProcess), so
>     if I understand correctly the correct approach would be to first
>     implement the module into GEANT, and then add it to GATE.
>     Am I right? I would be grateful for any suggestions.
>     Thank you in advance.
> 
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>     Best regards,
>     Wojtek Krzemien
> 
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