I seem to be getting some odd results with high energy inelastic cross sections of hadrons with basically the Example N04 physics list. To track it down, I turn off all processes except "inelastic", and get the cross section from the position distributions of the primary interaction verticess. I have looked at both hydrogen and tungsten. Protons, neutrons and pions seem reasonable, but strange particles and light nuclei give odd results: (1) The K0L cross section is up to 30% larger than the K0S cross section. The lowest energy I look at is 50 GeV, so I would expect both CP eignestates to have essentially the same total hadronic cross section. (2) The strange particle cross sections increase dramatically at very high energies relative to the non-strange cross sections. (See last 2 slides of indicated URL.) (3) As expected, in both hydrogen and tungsten, the proton and neutron cross sections are larger than the pion cross sections, and in hydrogen the lambda cross section is larger than the kaon cross sections. In tungsten, however, the lambda cross section is always less than the kaon cross sections. (4) For light nuclei (i.e. d, t, alpha) the cross sections (above 1 GeV) in tungsten seem roughly reasonable, but the primary particle loses no energy in the interaction and no secondaries are produced even though this is supposed to be an "inelastic" process. As always, I wonder if I am missing something.
I have tagged this as WORKSFORME. The results observed were eventually found to be "normal behaviour" in the sense that they showed what one would expect from GHEISHA (in both G3 and G4), considering the range of the cross section tables and the practical limitations in treatment of light nuclei. On reviewing the e-mails, it appears that all the issues have been answered by myself or Hans-Peter so I am closing this bug report.