Problem 1115

Summary: G4eBremsstrahlung (eBrem) gives different results depending on the order of definition of the elements in a material
Product: Geant4 Reporter: silvia <capelli>
Component: physics_listsAssignee: Vladimir.Ivantchenko
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: Vladimir.Ivantchenko
Priority: P5    
Version: 9.3   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux   

Description silvia 2010-04-23 18:10:14 CEST
In the evaluation of the containment efficiency for DBD0nu events in TeO2
crystals I defined the material both as TeO2 and O2Te.
I used PhysicsList.cc of examples/extended/electromagnetic/TestEM9 and I have switched between G4EmStandard, G4EmLivermore, G4EmPenelope and PhysListEmStandard. 

The results I obtain are:


PhysListEMStandard  TeO2 87.76 +/- 0.13 %
                    O2Te 86.14 +/- 0.13 %
G4EmStandard        TeO2 87.76 +/- 0.13 %
                    O2Te 86.21 +/- 0.13 %
G4Livermore         TeO2 88.49 +/- 0.13 %
                    O2Te 88.46 +/- 0.13 %
G4Penelope          TeO2 88.77 +/- 0.13 %
                    O2Te 88.85 +/- 0.13 %

The efficiencies obtained with PhysListEMStandard and G4EmStandard change depending on the order of definition of the elements in the material but if I substitute in PhysListEMStandard the eBrem model (used below 1 GeV) with LowEnBrem (below 1 GeV) I obtain results compatible with G4Livermore:
                    TeO2 88.45 +/- 0.13 %
                    O2Te 88.42 +/- 0.13 % 
so the problem seems to be in the eBrem model.
Comment 1 Vladimir.Ivantchenko 2010-04-26 17:43:35 CEST
Hello,

Thanks for the report,
Please, send tar file with your application. If you are using TestEm9, please, inform what version of G4 and send your macro-file.

Vladimir
Comment 2 Vladimir.Ivantchenko 2010-04-29 17:56:30 CEST
Hello,

The problem is fixed. The fix will be available in the next public version of Geant4 (June 2010).

VI