Problem 1141

Summary:	non energy conservation when deexcitation is activated
Product:	Geant4	Reporter:	Pedro.Arce
Component:	processes/electromagnetic/lowenergy	Assignee:	Sebastien Incerti <incerti>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	pandola, Pedro.Arce, Vladimir.Ivantchenko
Priority:	P5
Version:	other
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Attachments:	code and output

Description Pedro.Arce 2010-09-02 23:04:32 CEST

When de-excitation secondaries are emitted the energy lost - energy deposited is not equal to the sum of the energies of secondaries; to make it more clear: if all the secondaries in a step are due to de-excitation energy lost = energy deposited, so no energy should be left for secondaries. Then when one counts the total energy deposited in an event the number is bigger than the primary particle energy.
I understood from Vladimir Ivantchenko that energy should be conserved, so this must be a bug.

I am using geant4.9.4.b01

Comment 1 Sebastien Incerti 2010-09-03 07:50:28 CEST

Thanks for reporting, we will investigate.

Could you please tell us :
- what is your physics list
- incident particle energy
- material
- show tracking details using for eg /tracking/verbose commands in order to illustrate the problem if you can

thank you
sebastien

Comment 2 Pedro.Arce 2010-09-03 09:31:52 CEST

Created attachment 89 [details]
code and output

Comment 3 Sebastien Incerti 2010-10-18 09:43:48 CEST

fixed, thanks to Vladimir, Luciano & Alfonso.