Problem 732

Summary: Problem (crash) with kaon0L's in G4ExcitedStringDecay
Product: Geant4 Reporter: Armin.Nairz
Component: processes/hadronicAssignee: Gunter.Folger
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: critical    
Priority: P2    
Version: 6.2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://atlas.bu.edu/Monitoring/Logs/capone/g4simxM.CPE_8511_5610/

Description Armin.Nairz 2005-03-24 02:31:30 CET
In the ongoing mass production for the ATLAS physics workshop in June 2005,
which is using Geant4.6.2.p01 (compiled against CLHEP1.8.2.1), there occurred a
rare crash (core dump) in G4ExcitedStringDecay. The two reported cases both
concern kaon0L's in Aluminium:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Crash #1:

G4ExcitedStringDecay::EnergyAndMomentumCorrector - Warning
Scale not unity at end of iteration loop: 5882.2396 957.77 6.1415993
Increase number of attempts or increase ERRLIMIT
In src/G4ExcitedStringDecay.cc, line 130:
===> G4ExcitedStringDecay failed to correct...
G4HadronicProcess failed in ApplyYourself call for
- Particle energy[GeV] = 17.406078
- Material = Aluminium
- Particle type = kaon0L

*** G4Exception : 007
issued by : G4HadronicProcess
GeneralPostStepDoIt failed.
*** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***

*** G4Exception: Aborting execution ***


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Crash #2:

G4ExcitedStringDecay::EnergyAndMomentumCorrector - Warning
   Scale not unity at end of iteration loop: 8528.4164 957.77 8.9044513
   Increase number of attempts or increase ERRLIMIT
In src/G4ExcitedStringDecay.cc, line 130:
===> G4ExcitedStringDecay failed to correct...
 G4HadronicProcess failed in ApplyYourself call for
 - Particle energy[GeV] = 35.394779
 - Material = Aluminium
 - Particle type = kaon0L

*** G4Exception : 007
      issued by : G4HadronicProcess
GeneralPostStepDoIt failed.
*** Fatal Exception *** core dump ***

*** G4Exception: Aborting execution ***
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comment 1 Hans-Peter.Wellisch 2005-07-05 06:59:59 CEST
Gunter, can you have a look ?
Comment 2 Gunter.Folger 2005-09-27 07:39:59 CEST
Hello,

I have spent quite some time to reproduce this problem, without success.
Please confirm that this production is using a QGS. physics list. The problem
then occurs in the hadronisation of a string produced by the QGS model modeling
the interaction of a Kaon0L.

I had rrun more than 10^6 Kaon0L through QGS in a simpler setup, and did not run
into this problem.

If you agree, I could make this a warning only?

Gunter
Comment 3 Gunter.Folger 2005-11-23 10:22:59 CET
Fixed with tag had-hadronization-V07-01-00