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0013 <B>Geant4 9.2 Release Notes</B>
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0019 <B><I>December 19<SUP>th</SUP>, 2008</I></B>
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0026 <P>
0027 The code and binary libraries for the supported systems are available
0028 through our <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/geant4/support/download.shtml">Source
0029 Code Web page</A>.
0030 </P>
0031 <P>
0032 <I>We are grateful for the efforts of Geant4 users who have provided
0033    detailed feedback, comprehensive reports of issues.
0034    We thank in particular those who have contributed corrections,
0035    improvements or developments included in this release. </I>
0036 </P>
0037 <P>
0038 Please refer to the
0039 <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/geant4/support/userdocuments.shtml">Geant4
0040 User Documentation</A> for further information about using Geant4.
0041 </P>
0042 
0043 <H2><I>Contents</I></H2>
0044 <OL>
0045 <LI><A HREF="#1.">Supported and Tested Platforms</A></LI>
0046 <LI><A HREF="#2.">CLHEP and AIDA</A></LI>
0047 <LI><A HREF="#3.">Items for migration of the user code</A></LI>
0048 <LI><A HREF="#4.">New Developments and Capabilities</A></LI>
0049 <LI><A HREF="#5.">Expected effects on physics and performance</A></LI>
0050 <LI><A HREF="#6.">Known Run-Time Problems and Limitations</A></LI>
0051 <LI><A HREF="#7.">Compilation Warnings</A></LI>
0052 <LI><A HREF="#8.">Known Run-Time Warnings</A></LI>
0053 <LI><A HREF="#9.">Geant4 Software License</A></LI>
0054 <LI><A HREF="#10.">Detailed list of changes and fixes</A></LI>
0055 </OL>
0056 
0057 <P> </P>
0058 <A NAME="1."></a>
0059 <HR>
0060 
0061 <!-- ============================================== -->
0062 
0063 <H2>1. Supported and Tested Platforms</H2>
0064 
0065 Official platforms:
0066 <UL>
0067 <LI>Linux, gcc-3.4.6 (SLC4), gcc-4.2.1 (SLC5).<BR>
0068     Tested on <I>32 and 64 bit architectures</I> (Intel or AMD) with
0069     Scientific Linux CERN 4 (SLC4) (based on RedHat Linux Enterprise 4) and
0070     Scientific Linux CERN 5 (SLC5) (based on RedHat Linux Enterprise 5).
0071     Geant4 has also been successfully compiled on other RedHat versions as
0072     well as Debian and Suse.</LI>
0073 <LI>MacOSX 10.5, gcc-4.0.1</LI>
0074 <LI>Windows/XP and CygWin Tools with: Visual C++ 9.0 (Visual Studio 2008)</LI>
0075 </UL>
0076 
0077 More verified configurations:
0078 <UL>
0079 <LI>Linux, gcc-4.3.2</LI>
0080 <LI>Linux, Intel-icc 11.0</LI>
0081 </UL>
0082 
0083 Platforms configured but neither tested nor supported:
0084 <UL>
0085 <LI>AIX 4.3.2, xlC 6.0</LI>
0086 <LI>DEC V4.0, cxx C++ V6.1-027</LI>
0087 <LI>HP 10.20, aCC C++ B3910B A.01.23</LI>
0088 <LI>SGI V6.5.5, CC 7.2.1</LI>
0089 <LI>SUN Solaris 5.8, C++ CC-5.5.</LI>
0090 </UL>
0091 
0092 <P> </P>
0093 <A NAME="2."></A>
0094 <HR>
0095 
0096 <!-- ============================================== -->
0097 
0098 <H2>2. CLHEP and AIDA</H2>
0099 
0100 Geant4 <U>requires</U> the installation of
0101 <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/clhep/">CLHEP</A>, release <B>2.0.4.2</B>.<BR>
0102 The installation of <B>CLHEP-2.0.4.2</B> is mandatory for consistency in the
0103 definition of masses and widths of particles. Earlier versions of CLHEP may
0104 link, but they will not give correct results.
0105 <P> </P>
0106 Geant4 9.2 examples with histogramming cowork with analysis tools compliant
0107 to AIDA 3.2.1 interfaces (for details, see
0108 <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/geant4/UserDocumentation/UsersGuides/ForApplicationDeveloper/html/apas02.html">Appendix 2</A>
0109 of the
0110 <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/geant4/UserDocumentation/UsersGuides/ForApplicationDeveloper/html/">Users Guide for Application Developers</A>).<BR>
0111 AIDA headers can be downloaded from:
0112 <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://aida.freehep.org/">http://aida.freehep.org</A>
0113 
0114 
0115 <P> </P>
0116 <A NAME="3."></A>
0117 <HR>
0118 
0119 <!-- ============================================== -->
0120 
0121 <H2>3. Items for migration of the user code</H2>
0122 
0123 Listed here is some relevant information on developments included in this
0124 release, some of which may require migrations (mainly for users of advanced
0125 Geant4 features) in order to upgrade from release 9.1 to release 9.2.
0126 Note that for all users a full re-installation of libraries (or a full
0127 recompilation) and a recompilation of user applications is required.
0128 
0129 <P> </P>
0130 <B>Geometry</B>
0131 <P> </P>
0132 An additional optional Boolean argument has been added to the signature
0133 of <TT>ComputeSafety()</TT> in <TT>G4Navigator</TT>. Any class inheriting
0134 from <TT>G4Navigator</TT> has to adapt to the new signature.
0135 
0136 <P> </P>
0137 <B>Particles</B>
0138 <P> </P>
0139 Masses and widths of particles have been updated to be compliant with
0140 PDG-2008. To maintain consistency this requires the upgrade to a new
0141 version of the underlying CLHEP library (CLHEP-2.0.4.2), which includes
0142 up-to-date constants as used by Geant4.
0143 
0144 <P> </P>
0145 <B>Low Energy Electromagnetic physics</B>
0146 <P> </P>
0147 <UL>
0148 <LI>Geant4-DNA processes:<BR>
0149     new elastic scattering models are available for electrons, replacing the
0150     old ones. The user may use in his/her physics list either the Screened
0151     Rutherford model or the Champion model; the models are alternatives and
0152     must not be used together.<BR>
0153     To use the Screened Rutherford model in the physics list, one should
0154     define the elastic process as follows:
0155     <PRE>
0156     typedef G4DNAProcess<G4CrossSectionElasticScreenedRutherfordHE,
0157                          G4FinalStateElasticScreenedRutherford> 
0158             ElasticScreenedRutherfordHE;
0159     typedef G4DNAProcess<G4CrossSectionElasticScreenedRutherfordLE,
0160             G4FinalStateElasticBrennerZaider> 
0161             ElasticScreenedRutherfordLE;
0162     </PRE>
0163     and register it as follows:
0164     <PRE>
0165     processManager->AddDiscreteProcess(new ElasticScreenedRutherfordLE("ElasticScreenedRutherfordLE"));
0166     processManager->AddDiscreteProcess(new ElasticScreenedRutherfordHE("ElasticScreenedRutherfordHE"));
0167     </PRE>
0168     More details can be found in the advanced example <TT>microdosimetry</TT>.<BR>
0169     To use the Champion model in the physics list, define the process as follows:
0170     <PRE>
0171     typedef G4DNAProcess<G4CrossSectionElasticChampion,
0172                          G4FinalStateElasticChampion> ElasticChampion;
0173     </PRE>
0174     and register it as follows:
0175     <PRE>
0176     processManager->AddDiscreteProcess(new ElasticChampion("ElasticChampion"));
0177     </PRE>
0178     Documentation is also available from the
0179     <A HREF="https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Geant4/LowEnergyElectromagneticPhysicsWorkingGroup/">Low
0180     Energy EM working group page</A>.</LI>
0181 <LI>New alternative implementation of Penelope processes compatible with the
0182     standard EM design are included as <I>Beta</I> release. Information on how
0183     to use these processes (Compton, Rayleigh, Gamma conversion, photo-electric,
0184     annihilation and ionisation) is available through these
0185     <A href="http://geant4.lngs.infn.it/lngspage/penelopemigration.htm">migration
0186     notes</A>.</LI>
0187 </UL>
0188 
0189 <P> </P>
0190 <B>Hadronic physics</B>
0191 <P> </P>
0192 <UL>
0193   <LI>The method <TT>MeanFreePath()</TT> in <TT>G4HadronicProcess</TT> will
0194       become protected in the next release.
0195       A new public method will be provided.<BR>
0196       The obsolete method <TT>SetDispatch()</TT>, which is no longer used,
0197       has been removed.</LI>
0198 </UL>
0199 
0200 <P> </P>
0201 <B>Data Sets</B>
0202 <P> </P>
0203 This release introduces new versions of two data sets.
0204 Please see the corresponding details in
0205 <A href="#data-notes">Section 10</A> of this document.
0206 <UL>
0207 <LI>New data for neutron cross-sections, G4NDL.3.13.</LI>
0208 <LI>New low-energy data set, G4EMLOW.6.2.</LI>
0209 </UL>
0210 
0211 <P> </P>
0212 <A NAME="4."></A>
0213 <HR>
0214 
0215 <!-- ============================================== -->
0216 
0217 <H2>4. New Developments and Capabilities </H2>
0218 
0219 <B>Geometry & Field</B>
0220 <UL>
0221 <LI>New <I>locator</I> classes and options are available for identifying the 
0222     intersection point of a charged particle in a field. These are Simple, Brent, 
0223     and Multi-level and allow the user to investigate tradeoffs between increased 
0224     accuracy and CPU speed according to the use case.
0225     Multi-level is used by default to provide for robustness; the Brent method
0226     is introduced as an alternative.</LI>
0227 </UL>
0228 
0229 <B>Detector description persistency</B>
0230 <UL>
0231 <LI>A new module for importing detector descriptions in ASCII text format
0232     is now part of Geant4. Such a description can be used as an alternative
0233     to GDML or other persistency techniques, and is provided with a corresponding set
0234     of UI commands.</LI>
0235 <LI>GDML: the GDML plugin module adds export capabilities,
0236     and thus replaces completely the external GDML module required in older versions
0237     of Geant4. The GDML schema has been upgraded to support missing
0238     solids and parameterisations.
0239     The new GDML-3_0_0 schema is now recommended.</LI>
0240 </UL>
0241 
0242 <B>Interfaces & Visualization</B>
0243 <UL>
0244 <LI>The layout of the Qt interface, <TT>G4UIQt</TT>, which was introduced in
0245     release 9.1 as a <I>Beta</I> release, has been improved. It now supports both common
0246     versions of Qt: Qt3 and Qt4, and provides all the functionality of previous
0247     graphical user interfaces (such as Xm, Win32...). Also implemented a help
0248     widget to easily browse the entire Geant4 command system.</LI>
0249 <LI>Major Improvements have been made to the Qt visualization driver. This
0250     driver now includes all of the capabilties of the other OpenGL drivers,
0251     but adds additional controls to rotate, translate, zoom, to export to many
0252     graphics formats (jpeg, eps, ps, pdf) and to easily create visualization
0253     movies.</LI>
0254 <LI>The 2D drawing capability has been extended; added in previous release just
0255     for <TT>G4Text</TT>, it now also include <TT>G4Circle,
0256     G4Polyhedron, G4Polyline, G4Polymarker</TT> and <TT>G4Square</TT>.
0257     It allows placement in the 2D "screen window". Useful for tasks such as
0258     creating legends or logos that stay put on the screen while you otherwise
0259     rotate, translate or zoom the visualization.</LI>
0260 </UL>
0261 
0262 <B>Low Energy Electromagnetic physics</B>
0263 <UL>
0264 <LI>The Doppler broadening effect is added in <TT>G4LowEnergyCompton</TT> and
0265     <TT>G4LowEnergyComptonPolarized</TT> (using identical model in both
0266     cases).</LI>
0267 <LI>Ionisation cross sections for particle-induced X-ray Emission (PIXE)
0268     <UL>
0269     <LI>New Orlic semi-empirical model for L-Shells with protons projectiles
0270         (<TT>G4OrlicLCrossSection</TT>);</LI>
0271     <LI>New ECPSSR model for K-Shells with protons and alpha projectiles
0272         (<TT>G4ecpssrCrossSection</TT>);</LI>
0273     <LI>New Paul model for K-Shells (<TT>G4PaulKCrossSection</TT>).</LI>
0274     </UL></LI>
0275 <LI>Added new stopping power model for ions, using by default ICRU 73 data
0276     tables. New templated classes are <TT>G4IonParametrisedLossModel</TT>
0277     and <TT>G4IonParametrisedLossTable</TT>.</LI>
0278 <LI>Geant4-DNA processes:
0279     <UL>
0280     <LI>New charge transfer process by incident protons: two cross-section and
0281         one final state policy classes: <TT>G4CrossSectionChargeTransferCH</TT>,
0282         <TT>G4CrossSectionChargeTransferExp</TT>,
0283         <TT>G4FinalStateChargeTransferProton</TT>;</LI>
0284     <LI>Two new total cross section classes for electron elastic scattering in
0285         liquid water below and above <TT>200 eV</TT>:
0286         <TT>G4CrossSectionElasticScreenedRutherfordLE</TT> and
0287         <TT>G4CrossSectionElasticScreenedRutherfordHE</TT>;</LI>
0288     <LI>New alternative elastic scattering model for electrons in liquid water
0289         from C.Champion's model: <TT>G4CrossSectionElasticChampion</TT> and
0290         <TT>G4FinalStateElasticChampion</TT>.</LI> 
0291     </UL></LI>
0292 </UL>
0293 
0294 <B>Standard Electromagnetic physics</B>
0295 <UL>
0296 <LI>Cubic Spline interpolation of <tt>dedx</tt> and cross section tables is
0297   enabled by default. Better interpolation was found to increase stability
0298   when varying transport parameters, such as cuts, of energy deposition of
0299   hadrons. The old variant of linear interpolation is available as an option.</LI>
0300 <LI>A new process, <TT>G4eMultipleScattering</TT>, specialized for simulation
0301     of <TT>e+ and e-</TT> multiple scattering has been added.
0302     This process in turn uses a new model, <TT>G4UrbanMscModel2</TT>, which is
0303     based on the <TT>G4UrbanMscModel</TT> of previous releases but has an
0304     improved sampling algorithm and has been retuned to experimental data.
0305     Several reference physics lists such as <TT>G4EmStandardPhysics</TT> now
0306     use this new <TT>G4eMultipleScattering</TT> process.</LI>
0307 <LI>A new class <TT>G4WentzelVIModel</TT> for multiple scattering of muons and 
0308     hadrons is available as a prototype for validation.</LI>
0309 <LI>New bremsstrahlung model class, <TT>G4eBremsstrahlungRelModel</TT>, includes
0310     advanced description of LPM effect; it can be applied for electrons and
0311     positrons with <TT>E > 1 GeV</TT> and provides gamma spectra which agree
0312     well with thin-target experimental data.<BR>
0313     The density suppression effect in the old <TT>G4eBremsstrahlungModel</TT> 
0314     has been reviewed and improved.</LI>
0315 <LI>The <TT>G4IonFluctuations</TT> model has been updated: at high energy 
0316     it uses <TT>G4UniversalFluctuation</TT>, which provides Landau tail of
0317     fluctuations. 
0318     At low energies it uses Gaussian distribution based on experimental data.</LI>
0319 <LI>The <TT>G4Cerenkov</TT> process now enforces a step limitation at the
0320     Cerenkov threshold and a new user defined step limitation provides for
0321     smoother X-ray emission.</LI>
0322 <LI>A new <TT>G4EmSaturation</TT> class is introduced for sampling of Birks
0323     saturation.</LI>
0324 <LI>A new <TT>G4ElectronIonPair</TT> helper class based on the ICRU'31 report has
0325     been added; it can be used for sampling electron/ion pairs in sensitive
0326     detectors.</LI>
0327 <LI>A new <TT>G4EmConfigurator</TT> class can be used for configuration of
0328     models in physics lists.</LI>
0329 <LI>Initialization of <TT>SubType</TT> has been added for all processes.</LI>
0330 <LI>The printout describing processes, models and their parameters 
0331     initialised for a run have been upgraded.</LI>
0332 </UL>
0333 
0334 <B>Hadronic physics</B>
0335 <UL>
0336 <LI>A new hadronic process subtype enumeration <TT>G4HadronicProcessType</TT>
0337     has been created in order to identify active hadronic processes:
0338     <PRE> 
0339     enum G4HadronicProcessType
0340     {
0341       fHadronElastic =   111,
0342       fHadronInelastic = 121,
0343       fCapture =         131,
0344       fFission =         141,
0345       fHadronAtRest =    151,
0346       fChargeExchange =  161
0347     };
0348     </PRE></LI>
0349 <LI>Bertini cascade:
0350     <UL>
0351     <LI>Barrier penetration has been added to the Coulomb barrier.</LI>
0352     <LI>A bug in the final state multiplicity sampling has been fixed, thereby 
0353         correcting the quasi-elastic peak which was too large.</LI>
0354     <LI>Very low values of two-body internal pion cross sections above
0355         <TT>7 GeV</TT> have been brought up to PDG values.</LI> 
0356     </UL></LI>
0357 <LI>Binary cascade: the cascade part remains unchanged, however, changes in
0358     the pre-compound and de-excitation code will affect results for low-energy
0359     secondaries.</LI>
0360 <LI>The INCL/ABLA cascade/evaporation model is now officially released.
0361     It can be used for incident <TT>p, n, d, t, 3He, alpha</TT> and
0362     <TT>pions</TT> from <TT>200 MeV</TT> up to <TT>3 GeV</TT>, on nuclei
0363     ranging from carbon to uranium.</LI>
0364 <LI>The quantum molecular dynamics (QMD) model for nucleus-nucleus collisions 
0365     is now in <I>Beta</I> release. It is valid from <TT>50 MeV</TT> to
0366     <TT>5 GeV</TT>.</LI>
0367 <LI>The class <TT>G4GlauberGribovCrossSection</TT> now provides a smooth
0368     transition with the Barashenkov cross sections at <TT>90 GeV</TT>.</LI>
0369 <LI><TT>G4ChargeExchangeProcess</TT> and <TT>G4ChargeExchange</TT> model are
0370     now ready to be used in physics lists; the low energy threshold is set to
0371     <TT>1.0 MeV</TT>. </LI>
0372 <LI>Several improvements have been made to the pre-compound model.
0373     Missing pieces of theory were added and several code fixes 
0374     were made to <TT>G4PreCompoundModel</TT> and related classes.</LI>
0375 <LI>De-excitation and evaporation:
0376     <UL>
0377     <LI>Several corrections to the multi-fragmentation model to ensure it
0378         conforms with the original SMM model. These were donated by authors
0379         of the SMM model and collaborators.</LI>
0380     <LI>New inverse cross sections and fixes of evaporation probabilities</LI>
0381     <LI>FermiBreakUp is now switched off by default.</LI>
0382     <LI>The pairing correction in excitation energy have been fixed in
0383         <TT>G4GEMChannel</TT>.</LI>
0384     </UL></LI>
0385 <LI>Nuclear mass tables: in order to use nuclear masses consistently throughout the 
0386     the hadronic code, changes have been made for the usage of
0387     <TT>G4NucleiProperties</TT> methods to also conform to changes made in the
0388     particles module.</LI>
0389 </UL>
0390 
0391 <P> </P>
0392 <B>Physics Lists</B>
0393 <P> </P>
0394 <UL>
0395 <LI>A new <TT>G4EmStandardPhysics_option3</TT> physics constructor has been
0396     added; it can be used for simulation, where required spatial precision is
0397     much less than <TT>1 mm</TT>.</LI>
0398 <LI>A new utility, <TT>G4PhysicsListFactory</TT>, is introduced; it allows
0399     any reference physics list to be built.</LI>
0400 </UL>
0401 
0402 <B>Command-based scoring</B>
0403 <UL>
0404 <LI><I>Beta</I> release of cylindrical scoring mesh is included in this release.
0405     Any feedback on issues and functionality is welcome.<BR>
0406     Please, also see known issues affecting this new development in
0407     <A href="#6.">Section 6</A> of this document.</LI>
0408 </UL>
0409 
0410 <P> </P>
0411 <A NAME="5."></A>
0412 <HR>
0413 <!-- ============================================== -->
0414 
0415 <H2>5. Expected effects on physics and performance</H2>
0416 
0417 <B>Geometry</B>
0418 <UL>
0419 <LI>Implementation improvements in <TT>G4Cons</TT> and <TT>G4Tubs</TT>
0420     bring speed improvements on the order of 20% for those shapes
0421     with pure-tracking (i.e. without field propagation or physics).</LI>
0422 </UL>
0423 
0424 <B>Low-energy Electromagnetic physics</B>
0425 <UL>
0426 <LI>An updated version of the <TT>G4LogLogInterpolation</TT> class is included
0427     in this release. This update improves the speed of low
0428     energy EM Physics processes that use this class. Only insignificant
0429     changes result in the interpolated values obtained and in physics
0430     observables.</LI>
0431 </UL>
0432 
0433 <B>Standard Electromagnetic physics</B>
0434 <UL>
0435 <LI>More precise multiple scattering model for electrons and positrons 
0436     provides wider shower (about 0.5% measured for the CMS calorimeter).</LI>
0437 <LI>New relativistic Bremsstrahlung model is applied for electrons and 
0438     positrons; it provides gamma spectra which agree with thin-target CERN and
0439     SLAC data.</LI>
0440 <LI>The usage of the Spline approximation of <TT>dedx</TT> and cross section
0441     tables provides a Bragg peak position which is stable within <TT>0.1 mm</TT> 
0442     versus variation of production cut or step limit.</LI>
0443 <LI>Visible energy in sampling calorimeters may increase on the order of 1%
0444     due to upgraded model of multiple-scattering and usage of Spline
0445     approximation.</LI>
0446 </UL>
0447 
0448 <B>Hadronic physics</B>
0449 <UL>
0450 <LI>Changes to the Bertini cascade code have resulted in several changes to
0451     energy spectra and shower shapes:
0452     <UL>
0453     <LI>the bug fix to multiplicity sampling resulted in cutting the
0454         quasi-elastic peak height in half, more in line with the binary
0455         cascade;</LI>
0456     <LI>the same fix increased the multiplicity and decreased the mean energy
0457         of pion secondaries, thus shortening the length of showers in
0458         calorimeter tests by roughly 2% (depending on the physics list);</LI>
0459     <LI>CMS test beam studies show a significant reduction in non-linearities
0460         in energy response to MIP like particles between <TT>5</TT> and
0461         <TT>10 GeV</TT>;</LI>
0462     <LI>improvements to the Coulomb barrier have significantly reduced the
0463         number of protons below <TT>20 MeV</TT>.</LI>
0464   </UL></LI>
0465 <LI>Improvements in the precompound model have resulted in more realistic
0466     neutron spectra at low energies. For <TT>22 MeV</TT> protons on aluminum,
0467     for example, the neutron spectrum now falls exponentially, as expected from
0468     data. Before the changes, this spectrum was more or less flat.
0469     This results in proportionally more neutrons at lower energies.</LI>
0470 
0471 <LI>Performance measurements carried out on realistic setups when using
0472     <TT>QGSP_BERT</TT> for <TT>50 GeV pi-</TT>, show an improvement of about
0473     25% in CPU time. A slight degradation in performance of 1 to 3% is instead
0474     measured for <TT>QGSP_EMV</TT>.</LI>
0475 </UL>  
0476 
0477 <P> </P>
0478 <A NAME="6."></A>
0479 <HR>
0480 
0481 <!-- ============================================== -->
0482 
0483 <H2>6. Known Run-Time Problems and Limitations</H2>
0484 <B>Command-based Scoring</B>
0485 <P></P>
0486 The following known issues affect the cylindrical scoring mesh feature and
0487 are expected to be fixed in the next release.
0488 <UL>
0489 <LI>Rather frequent warning messages may be issued during tracking by the
0490     <TT>G4Navigator</TT>, concerning zero-length steps. This does not affect
0491     the correctness of the results and has been identified in the cases
0492     where a track enters at exactly the center of the top/bottom circular
0493     face along the local z-axis of the scoring cylinder.</LI>
0494 <LI>Speed of transportation in cylindrical mesh is known to be non-optimal
0495     and will be improved in the next release.</LI>
0496 <LI>A problem for some scorers which use the volume size for cylindrical
0497     mesh is identified due to faulty calculation of the geometrical volume
0498     in such configurations. The following scorers currently should not be
0499     used for cylindrical meshes (unless you hand-correct for the volume
0500     after results are obtained): <TT>G4PSCellFlux, G4PSDoseDeposit,
0501     G4PSPassageCellFlux, G4PSCylinderSurfaceCurrent,
0502     G4PSCylinderSurfaceFlux</TT>.</LI>
0503 </UL>
0504 For a complete list of outstanding run-time problems and to submit any
0505 problem you may find while running this version of Geant4, please refer 
0506 to the
0507 <A TARGET="ext" HREF="http://cern.ch/geant4/problemreport">Geant4 Problem
0508 Reporting System</A>.
0509 
0510 <P> </P>
0511 <A NAME="7."></A>
0512 <HR>
0513 
0514 <!-- ============================================== -->
0515 
0516 <H2>7. Compilation Warnings</H2>
0517 
0518 There may be few compilation warnings on some platforms.
0519 We do not believe that any of these lead to incorrect run-time behaviour.
0520 
0521 <P> </P>
0522 <A NAME="8."></A>
0523 <HR>
0524 
0525 <!-- ============================================== -->
0526 
0527 <H2>8. Known Run-Time Warnings</H2>
0528 
0529 The following message can be written to standard output at the end of a program:
0530 <PRE>
0531     G4Transportation: Statistics for looping particles 
0532        Sum of energy of loopers killed: 
0533        Max energy of loopers killed: 
0534 </PRE>
0535 It provides the total energy (in <TT>MeV</TT>) of tracks  killed due to
0536 excessive number of steps ('looping') during the simulation, and the maximum
0537 energy of such a track. Such behaviour can be due to looping in magnetic fields
0538 or encountering problems at geometrical boundaries.
0539 <P></P>
0540 In case either of these reported energies is significant, we recommend
0541 increasing the verbosity of <TT>G4Transportation</TT> to obtain information for
0542 each track killed. A user can change the threshold energy above which particles
0543 are not killed using the method <TT>SetThresholdImportantEnergy</TT> of
0544 <TT>G4Transportation</TT>. The default value is <TT>250 MeV</TT>.
0545 
0546 <P> </P>
0547 <A NAME="9."></A>
0548 <HR>
0549 
0550 <!-- ============================================== -->
0551 
0552 <H2>9. Geant4 Software License</H2>
0553 
0554 A Software License applies to the Geant4 code.
0555 Users must accept this license in order to use it. The details and the list of
0556 copyright holders is available at
0557 <A href="http://cern.ch/geant4/license">http://cern.ch/geant4/license</A>
0558 and also in the text file <TT>LICENSE</TT> distributed with the source code.
0559 
0560 <P> </P>
0561 <A NAME="10."></A>
0562 <HR>
0563 
0564 <!-- ============================================== -->
0565 
0566 <H2>10. Detailed list of changes and fixes</H2>
0567 
0568 These are the main new features/fixes included in this release since the
0569 last patched public release (for more detailed lists of fixes/additions,
0570 please refer to the corresponding History files provided in most packages):
0571 
0572 <P> </P>
0573 
0574 <A NAME="conf-notes">
0575 <H3><I>Configuration</I></H3></A>
0576 <UL>
0577 <LI>Integrated improvements to <TT>Qt</TT> setup. Automatically
0578     detecting Qt3 or Qt4 installations.</LI>
0579 <LI>Embedded <TT>AIDA</TT> setup in central configuration scripts,
0580     simplified <TT>GNUmakefile</TT>s in examples.</LI>
0581 <LI><TT>binmake.gmk</TT>: added sub-modules <TT>persistency/ascii</TT>,
0582     <TT>particles/adjoint</TT> and <TT>electromagnetic/adjoint</TT>.</LI>
0583 <LI>Implemented temporary workaround in <TT>Darwin-g++</TT> for automatically
0584     set <TT>GLLIBS</TT> for Leopard. Implemented temporary workaround in
0585     <TT>Linux-g++</TT> for automatically detect and correctly set <TT>X11LIBS</TT>
0586     and <TT>GLLIBS</TT> for 32/64-bits dual systems on Linux.</LI>
0587 <LI>Defined <TT>$FIND, $SORT, $TOUCH</TT> variables overridden in Windows
0588     setup for defining proper absolute path to CygWin tools, to avoid clashes
0589     with Windows native tools.</LI>
0590 <LI><TT>G4UI_USE.gmk</TT>: added <TT>-DG4UI_USE</TT> to <TT>CPPFLAGS</TT>.
0591 <LI><TT>Configure</TT> script: brought up-to-date with new data
0592     sets and configuration options for Qt.</LI>
0593 </UL>
0594 
0595 <A NAME="digits-notes">
0596 <H3><I>Digitization & Hits</I></H3></A>
0597 <UL>
0598 <LI>Introducing cylindrical scoring mesh (<TT>G4ScoringCylinder</TT> and
0599     related classes); Beta release.</LI>
0600 <LI>Introducing log-scale color map (<TT>G4ScoreLogColorMap</TT>).</LI>
0601 <LI>Fixed incorrect index number in <TT>G4ScoringMessenger</TT>.</LI>
0602 </UL>
0603 
0604 <A NAME="emstd-notes">
0605 <H3><I>Electromagnetic Processes</I></H3></A>
0606 <UL>
0607 <LI><B>Adjoint</B>
0608     <UL>
0609     <LI>First release of adjoint (reverse Monte Carlo) processes for Compton,
0610         photo-electric, ionisation and Bremsstrahlung.</LI>
0611     </UL></LI>
0612 <LI><B>High Energy</B>
0613     <UL>
0614     <LI>Added new Bremsstrahlung and pair-production models for hadrons.</LI>
0615     <LI>Added initialization of <TT>SubType</TT> for all processes.</LI>
0616     <LI><TT>G4eeCrossSections</TT>: migrated to PDG 2006 data.</LI>
0617     <LI>New models: <TT>G4eeTo3PiModel</TT>, <TT>G4eeToPGammaModel</TT>,
0618         <TT>G4ee2KChargedModel</TT>, <TT>G4ee2KNeutralModel</TT>.</LI>
0619     <LI><TT>G4eeToHadronsMultiModel</TT>: added main reaction channels for
0620         <TT>omega</TT> and <TT>phi</TT> resonances.</LI>
0621     <LI><TT>G4GammaConversionToMuons</TT>: replaced legacy exit() statements
0622         by warnings.</LI>
0623     <LI>Updated processes enumeration and printouts.</LI>
0624     </UL></LI>
0625 <LI><B>Low Energy</B>
0626     <UL>
0627     <LI>Added PIXE cross section, L-shells, for protons in
0628         <TT>G4OrlicLCrossSection</TT>. Added semi-Empirical model implementation
0629         for L-SubShells-Cross-Section with protons projectiles.</LI>
0630     <LI>New charge transfer process by incident protons (two cross-section and
0631         one final state policy classes).</LI>
0632     <LI>Added Doppler broadening to <TT>G4LowEnergyCompton</TT>, based on
0633         <I>Y.Namito, S.Ban and H.Hirayama, NIM A 349, pp. 489-494, 1994</I>.
0634         Added Doppler broadening in <TT>G4LowEnergyComptonPolarized</TT>, same
0635         model as in <TT>G4LowEnergyCompton</TT>.</LI>
0636     <LI>Added new stopping power model for ions, using by default ICRU 73
0637         data tables. New templated classes: <TT>G4IonParametrisedLossModel</TT>
0638         and <TT>G4IonParametrisedLossTable</TT>.</LI>
0639     <LI>Added new photon models (Penelope and Livermore) compatible with
0640         standard EM design (<I>Beta</I> release).</LI>
0641     <LI>First inclusion of <TT>G4PenelopeIonisationModel</TT>.
0642         Correction for <TT>G4PenelopeComptonModel</TT>: now the cross section
0643         table calculated by the model corresponds to the original Penelope;
0644         the difference was only for compounds materials and below 1 keV.
0645         Fixes to <TT>G4PenelopeBremsstrahlungContinuous</TT>.<BR>
0646     <LI>Allow for loading the complete Auger dataset on initialization.</LI>
0647     <LI>Cleaned and updated energy limits for DNA processes.</LI>
0648     <LI>Added new elastic scattering process for electrons (Geant4 DNA) from
0649         C.Champion's model (<TT>G4CrossSectionElasticChampion</TT> and
0650         <TT>G4FinalStateElasticChampion</TT>). First implementation
0651         of process for positronium production from C.Champion's model.
0652         Updated <TT>G4DNAGenericIonsManager</TT>.
0653         NOTE: new processes work only with version 6.2 of <TT>G4EMLOW</TT>
0654         data.</LI>
0655     <LI>Removed printout in <TT>G4LowEnergyCompton</TT>. Addressing problem
0656         report <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1026">#1026</A>.
0657     <LI>Removed <TT>AddEnergyDeposit</TT> below low energy limit in final
0658         state classes.</LI>
0659     <LI>Decreased low energy limit for e- to <TT>12.61 eV</TT> in
0660         <TT>G4CrossSectionIonisationBorn</TT> and
0661         <TT>G4FinalStateIonisationBorn</TT> instead of <TT>25 eV</TT>.</LI>
0662     <LI>Corrected wrong upper energy limit for hydrogen in class
0663         <TT>G4CrossSectionIonisationRudd</TT>, and proton in
0664         <TT>G4ChargeDecrease</TT>. Raised lower energy limit of
0665         <TT>G4CrossSectionExcitationEmfietzoglou</TT> up to <TT>10 eV</TT>.
0666         Updated low energy limits of Geant4-DNA e- models (Brenner-Zaider and
0667         Champion's elastic scattering and Emfietzoglou's excitation).</LI>
0668     <LI>Added two new classes for electron elastic scattering below and above
0669         <TT>200 eV</TT>.</LI>
0670     <LI>Added protection against negative log() argument in
0671         <TT>G4LogLogInterpolation</TT>.</LI>
0672     <LI>Added protection against energies above <TT>200 eV</TT> and corrected
0673         bug in computation of differential cross-section maximum in
0674         <TT>G4FinalStateElasticBrennerZaider</TT>.</LI>
0675     <LI>Added protection in <TT>G4FinalStateIonisationBorn</TT> causing
0676         run-time error detected by Valgrind.</LI>
0677     <LI>Requires new data set <TT>G4EMLOW.6.2</TT>.</LI>
0678     </UL></LI>
0679 <LI><B>Muons</B>
0680     <UL>
0681     <LI>Added initialization of <TT>SubType</TT> for all processes.</LI>
0682     <LI>Added Spline option and promoted to public method
0683         <TT>ComputeTrueStep()</TT> in <TT>G4EnergyLossForExtrapolator</TT>.
0684         Added method <TT>TrueStepLength()</TT>; fixed initialization before
0685         a step.</LI>
0686     <LI>Several fixes and further developments in <TT>G4Mu*</TT> models and
0687         associated processes in order to be used as base classes for hadron
0688         induced bremsstrahlung and <TT>e+e-</TT> pair production.</LI>
0689     </UL></LI>
0690 <LI><B>Polarisation</B>
0691     <UL>
0692     <LI>Added initialization of <TT>SubType</TT> for all processes.</LI>
0693     </UL></LI>
0694 <LI><B>Standard</B>
0695     <UL>
0696     <LI>Added initialization of <TT>SubType</TT> for all processes.</LI>
0697     <LI>Multiple Scattering:
0698         <UL>
0699         <LI>New multiple-scattering model <TT>G4WentzelVIModel</TT> used in
0700             new muon physics processes.</LI>
0701         <LI>Cloned <TT>G4UrbanMscModel</TT> class into <TT>G4UrbanMscModel2</TT>:
0702             <UL>
0703             <LI>Introduced several fixes and tunings. Tuned central part of
0704                 scattering angle (<TT>theta0</TT>) and tail of the scattering
0705                 angle distribution, using some <TT>e-</TT> scattering data.</LI>
0706             <LI>Use screening function from <TT>G4eCoulombScatteringModel</TT>
0707                 and fixed screening parameter of the single scattering part.</LI>
0708             <LI>Added extra protection for <TT>UseDistanceToBoundary</TT> option.</LI>
0709             <LI>Fixed bug in <TT>ComputeTruePathLengthLimit()</TT>.</LI>
0710             <LI>Fixed NaN in sampling of cosine theta for <TT>50 GeV e-</TT>.</LI>
0711             </UL></LI>
0712         <LI><TT>G4UrbanMscModel</TT>, <TT>G4UrbanMscModel2</TT>,
0713             <TT>G4UrbanMscModel90</TT>:
0714             <UL>
0715             <LI>Fixed cases of string comparison when compute transport
0716                 cross-sections, compare masses instead.</LI>
0717             <LI>Using <TT>StepStatus</TT> from </TT>preStepPoint</TT> to
0718                 identify first step for a given track instead of the step
0719                 number. Fixing a problem observed in ATLAS of small step
0720                 limits with suspended tracks when using Cerenkov process.</LI>
0721             <LI>Added protection against sampling scattering angle with zero
0722                 transport cross section.
0723             </UL></LI>
0724         <LI>New process <TT>G4eMultipleScattering</TT> specialized for
0725             <TT>e+,e-</TT>, which uses <TT>G4UrbanMscModel2</TT> as a default model.</LI>
0726         </UL></LI>
0727     <LI>Bremsstrahlung:
0728         <UL>
0729         <LI><TT>G4eBremsstrahlungModel</TT>: corrected Migdal constant to be
0730             set to the value as in <TT>G4eBremsstrahlungRelModel</TT>.</LI>
0731         <LI><TT>G4eBremsstrahlungRelModel</TT>: revised LPM and density effect suppressions;
0732             results fit CERN thin target experimental data at 150-300 GeV; 
0733             defined threshold energy for LPM effect depending on atomic number; 
0734             defined Thomas-Fermi screening function (a'la Tsai).</LI>
0735         <LI><TT>G4eBremsstrahlung</TT>: uses <TT>G4eBremsstrahlungRelModel</TT> above
0736             <TT>1 GeV</TT> by default.</LI>
0737         </UL></LI>
0738     <LI>Ionisation:
0739         <UL>
0740         <LI><TT>G4ionIonisation</TT>, <TT>G4hIonisation</TT>: removed
0741             <TT>InitialiseMassCharge()</TT> and <TT>CorrectionsAlongStep()</TT>
0742             methods; limits of kinetic energy for models now taken from the base
0743             class and from models; separated treatment of <TT>He</TT> ions.</LI>
0744         <LI><TT>G4ionGasIonisation</TT>: is exact clone of <TT>G4ionIonisation</TT>.</LI>
0745         <LI><TT>G4hIonisation</TT>: switched off nuclear stopping for
0746             <TT>pi</TT> and <TT>K</TT> mesons.</LI>
0747         <LI><TT>G4IonFluctuations</TT>: added protection to the computation of
0748             the correction factor to dispersion which provide smooth transition
0749             to small velocities of an ion; added protection in computation of
0750             dispersion on allowing have a corrected dispersion below Bohr value.
0751             Avoid Poisson sampling. Avoid loop over elements of material;
0752             use effective <TT>Z</TT>. Added <TT>G4UniversalFluctuation</TT>
0753             model to provide a smooth transition from high to low energies.</LI>
0754         </UL></LI>
0755     <LI><TT>G4eCoulombScatteringModel</TT>:
0756         <UL>
0757         <LI>Speedup run-time computations using precomputed nuclear
0758             form-factors per element.</LI>
0759         <LI>Added extra protection for precision lost in computation of
0760             recoil energy and for ions. Added protection against precision
0761             loss in computation of cross section at high energy.</LI>
0762         <LI>Added usage of <TT>G4ElementSelector</TT> vector.</LI>
0763         </UL></LI>
0764     <LI><TT>G4PAIxSection</TT>: new functions for resonance and Rutherford
0765         collisions.</LI>
0766     <LI><TT>G4PAIPhotonModel</TT>: changed model name.</LI>
0767     <LI>Fixed nuclear size correction for the <TT>G4BetheBlochModel</TT>.
0768         Added methods <TT>GetParticleCharge()</TT>,
0769         <TT>GetChargeSquareRatio()</TT>, <TT>CorrectionsAlongStep()</TT>
0770         needed for ions in <TT>G4BetheBlochModel</TT>, <TT>G4BraggModel</TT>
0771         and <TT>G4BraggIonModel</TT>; defining low and high energy limits
0772         inside the model. Take into account effective charge change over
0773         the step.</LI>
0774     <LI><TT>G4WaterStopping</TT>: using Spline interpolation and mass number
0775         instead of atomic mass.</LI>
0776     <LI><TT>G4WaterStopping</TT>: added extra data.</LI>
0777     <LI><TT>G4PSTARStopping, G4ASTARStopping</TT>: fixed <TT>SiO2</TT>,
0778         TEFLON, and GRAFITE data. </LI>
0779     </UL></LI>
0780 <LI><B>Utils</B>
0781     <UL>
0782     <LI>New class <TT>G4VMscModel</TT> to keep general multiple-scattering
0783         parameters and Get/Set methods.</LI>
0784     <LI>New class <TT>G4EmElementSelector</TT>, a helper class to sample random
0785         <TT>G4Element</TT> in a compound material.</LI>
0786     <LI>New helper classes: <TT>G4EmConfigurator</TT>, class to add model per
0787         particle type, process, energy range and geometrical region.</LI>
0788     <LI><TT>G4ElectronIonPair</TT>: class to sample number of primary
0789         ionisations in detectors.</LI>
0790     <LI>Added <TT>G4EmProcessSubType</TT> enumerator, defining sub-types for all
0791         EM processes and changed enumeration names in <TT>G4EmTableType</TT>
0792         to avoid clashes.</LI>
0793     <LI>Added new <TT>G4EmSaturation</TT> helper class.</LI>
0794     <LI><TT>G4VEnergyLossProcess</TT>: fixed computation of NIEL at the last
0795         step of a particle.</LI>
0796     <LI><TT>G4LossTableManager</TT>: fixed logic in compute <TT>dEdx</TT> table
0797         for an inactive process. Added register/deregister mechanism and
0798         deletion at the end of job for <TT>G4VEmModel</TT>.
0799         Propagated Spline flag to <TT>G4LossTableBuilder</TT>.
0800         Set spline option to <TT>true</TT>, <TT>LPM</TT> effect to <TT>true</TT>
0801         by default. Removed legacy calls to <TT>exit()</TT>.</LI>
0802     <LI><TT>G4LossTableBuilder</TT>: removed dependency on
0803         <TT>G4LossTableManager</TT>. Removed legacy calls to <TT>exit()</TT>.</LI>
0804     <LI><TT>G4EmModelManager</TT>: fixed crash in destructor when verbosity is
0805         greater than 1; fixed selection of models per energy; updated printout
0806         with <TT>DumpModelList()</TT> method.</LI>
0807     <LI><TT>G4VEmModel</TT>, <TT>G4VEmProcess</TT>,
0808         <TT>G4VMultipleScattering</TT>, <TT>G4VEnergyLossProcess</TT>:
0809         <UL>
0810         <LI>Reordering of members and methods of classes and improved comments.</LI> 
0811         <LI>Setting default table size <TT>0.1 keV - 100 TeV</TT> in 84 bins.</LI>
0812         <LI>Renamed and improved method <TT>MicroscopicCrossSection()</TT> by
0813             <TT>CrossSectionPerVolume()</TT>.</LI>
0814         <LI>Using new <TT>DumpModelList()</TT> method from <TT>G4EmModelManager</TT>
0815             in the verbosity output.</LI>
0816         </UL></LI>
0817     <LI><TT>G4VEmModel</TT>: 
0818         <UL>
0819         <LI>Provided optimizations of <TT>SelectRandomAtom()</TT> and
0820             <TT>SelectIsotope()</TT>.</LI> 
0821         <LI>Added methods <TT>GetParticleCharge()</TT>, <TT>GetChargeSquareRatio()</TT>,
0822             <TT>CorrectionsAlongStep()</TT> and <TT>ActivateNuclearStopping()</TT>
0823             needed for simulation of ion transport.</LI>
0824         <LI>Added LPM flag and access methods.</LI>
0825         <LI>Added threshold on secondary energy used in Bremsstrahlung model and
0826             access methods.</LI>
0827         <LI>Use STL vector for cross sections per atom instead of C array to 
0828             avoid limits of compound materials.</LI>
0829         </UL></LI>
0830     <LI><TT>G4VEnergyLossProcess</TT>: added pointer to current <TT>G4VEmModel</TT>;
0831          removed method <TT>CorrectionsAlongStep()</TT>, using instead corresponding
0832          method of a model.</LI> 
0833     <LI><TT>G4EmCorrections</TT>: 
0834         <UL>
0835         <LI>Added interfaces to ion effective charge.</LI>
0836         <LI>Disabled computation of ion corrections if <TT>G4hIonisation</TT>
0837             process is used for ions.</LI>
0838         <LI>Added new correction methods in order to provide a smooth transition
0839             between low-energy parameterization and Bethe-Bloch model.</LI> 
0840         <LI><TT>dEdx</TT> data for ions are initialized at the start
0841             of a run for materials used in geometry.</LI> 
0842         <LI>Updated search for ion/material pairs.</LI> 
0843         <LI>Defined the correction vector <TT>25 keV - 2.5 MeV</TT> in 20 bins
0844             as it is in ICRU'73 table.</LI>
0845         </UL></LI>
0846     <LI><TT>G4VEmFluctuationModel</TT>: added method
0847         <TT>SetParticleAndCharge()</TT>.</LI>
0848     <LI><TT>G4EnergyLossMessenger</TT>: added UI command 
0849         <TT>/process/em/applyCuts</TT>.</LI>
0850     </UL></LI>
0851 <LI><B>Xrays</B>
0852     <UL>
0853     <LI>Added scintillation with Birk's law and make now use of
0854         <TT>G4EmSaturation</TT> to implement Birks correction.</LI>
0855     <LI>Added <TT>SetProcessSubType()</TT> method to <TT>G4Cerenkov</TT>
0856         and <TT>G4Scintillation</TT>.</LI>
0857     <LI><TT>G4Cerenkov</TT>:
0858         <UL>
0859         <LI>Added extra step limit <TT>MaxBetaChangePerStep</TT> and enforced
0860             a step limit at the Cerenkov threshold.</LI>
0861         <LI>Modified sampling of the Cerenkov photon origins assuming linear
0862             decrease in the <TT>MeanNumberOfPhotons</TT> over the step.</LI>
0863         <LI>Use direct inheritance from <TT>G4VProcess</TT>.</LI>
0864         </UL></LI>
0865     </UL></LI>
0866 </UL>
0867 
0868 <A NAME="g3tog4-notes">
0869 <H3><I>G3toG4</I></H3></A>
0870 <UL>
0871 <LI>Fixed compilation warning for gcc-4.3.X in <TT>clparse</TT>.</LI>
0872 </UL>
0873 
0874 <A NAME="gen-notes">
0875 <H3><I>General Processes</I></H3></A>
0876 <UL>
0877 <LI><B>Biasing</B>
0878     <UL>
0879     <LI>Fixed use of <TT>WeightCutOff</TT> now correctly working in a mass
0880         geometry.</LI>
0881     <LI>Archived obsolete class <TT>G4CellFinder</TT>.</LI>
0882     </UL></LI>
0883 <LI><B>Cuts</B>
0884     <UL>
0885     <LI>Added <TT>G4ProductionCutsTableMessenger</TT> class.</LI>
0886     </UL></LI>
0887 <LI><B>Decay</B>
0888     <UL>
0889     <LI><TT>G4DecayWithSpin</TT>: modified <TT>DecayIt()</TT> to allow spin
0890         precession also for EM fields.</LI>
0891     <LI>Fixed process sub-type enumeration.</LI>
0892     </UL></LI>
0893 <LI><B>Management</B>
0894     <UL>
0895     <LI></LI>
0896     </UL></LI>
0897 <LI><B>Optical</B>
0898     <UL>
0899     <LI>In <TT>G4OpWLS</TT> now use <TT>SetTouchableHandle()</TT> for the
0900         secondaries in the <TT>DoIt()</TT>.</LI>
0901     <LI><TT>G4OpBoundaryProcess</TT>: correctly initialise pointer
0902         <TT>Surface</TT>; corrected use of signatures for <TT>G4SwapPtr()</TT>
0903         and <TT>G4SwapObj()</TT>, also addressing problem report
0904         <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1020">#1020</A>;
0905         changed unsafe cast to surface to <TT>dynamic_cast</TT>, according
0906         to suggestion in problem report
0907         <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1014">#1014</A>.
0908         Use <TT>G4RandomTool</TT> utilities.</LI>
0909     <LI>Replaced process sub-type IDs with corresponding enum IDs.
0910         Added local <TT>G4OpProcessSubType</TT> enum.</LI>
0911     </UL></LI>
0912 <LI><B>Scoring</B>
0913     <UL>
0914     <LI>Added copying of non-ionizing energy deposit in <TT>G4Step</TT>.</LI>
0915     </UL></LI>
0916 <LI><B>Transportation</B>
0917     <UL>
0918     <LI><TT>G4Transportation, G4CoupledTransportation</TT>:
0919         Performance improvement: avoid to compute safety at end of step for
0920         neutral particles. Push value & origin of safety to <TT>G4SafetyHelper</TT>
0921         only when its value comes from <TT>ComputeSafety()</TT>.</LI>
0922     </UL></LI>
0923 </UL>
0924 
0925 <A NAME="geo-notes">
0926 <H3><I>Geometry</I></H3></A>
0927 <UL>
0928 <LI><B>Divisions</B>
0929     <UL>
0930     <LI>Added division along <TT>X</TT> for G4Trd (that results in G4Trap's).</LI>
0931     <LI>Enhanced <TT>G4PVDivision</TT> internal utility methods to allow
0932         divisions solids to have type different than mother.</LI>
0933     </UL></LI>
0934 <LI><B>Magnetic field</B>
0935     <UL>
0936     <LI>Revised signature of <TT>G4ChordFinder::FinderNextChord()</TT>,
0937         making <TT>FieldTrack</TT> argument passed as reference.</LI>
0938     <LI>Added <TT>ApproxCurveV</TT> to method
0939         <TT>G4ChordFinder::ApproxCurvePointS()</TT> in order to better
0940         calculate the curve length.</LI>
0941     <LI>Added new stepper class <TT>G4ConstRK4</TT>, performing integration
0942         of one step with error calculation in constant magnetic field;
0943         implementation derived from <TT>G4ClassicalRK4</TT>.</LI>
0944     <LI>Added <TT>SetAnomaly()</TT> and <TT>GetAnomaly()</TT> accessors to
0945         <TT>G4EqEMFieldWithSpin</TT>. Renormalised spin to 1.</LI>
0946     <LI>Some code cleanup.</LI>
0947     </UL></LI>
0948 <LI><B>Management</B>
0949     <UL>
0950     <LI><TT>G4VSolid</TT>: explicitely reserve memory for polygon vectors
0951         in clipping algorithm to help reducing memory footprint.</LI>
0952     </UL></LI>
0953 <LI><B>Navigation</B>
0954     <UL>
0955     <LI><TT>G4Navigator</TT>: introduced optional <TT>Boolean</TT> argument to
0956         <TT>ComputeSafety()</TT> to allow for computation of safety without
0957         modifying the state of the navigator. Modified accordingly involved
0958         classes, for calls to <TT>ComputeSafety()</TT>.</LI>
0959     <LI><TT>G4VoxelNavigation</TT>: implemented additional check when running
0960         in <TT>check</TT> mode; if it is on the surface, ensure that it can
0961         move on next step; either <TT>DistanceToIn(p,v)</TT> or
0962         <TT>DistanceToOut(p,v)</TT> should return a finite value greater
0963         than the tolerance.</LI>
0964     <LI><TT>G4PathFinder</TT>: cleared unecessary calls to <TT>ComputeSafety()</TT>
0965         in <TT>ReLocate()</TT>.</LI>
0966     <LI>Moved method <TT>LocateIntersectionPoint()</TT> in
0967         <TT>G4PropagatorInField</TT> to a separate class
0968         <TT>G4VIntersectionLocator</TT>, now allowing to use different
0969         location algorithms: Brent, MultiLevel, Simple.
0970         New classes: <TT>G4VIntersectionLocator</TT>, <TT>G4SimpleLocator</TT>,
0971         <TT>G4BrentLocator</TT> and <TT>G4MultiLevelLocator</TT>.</LI>
0972     <LI>Introduced first implementation of new optional method in locator
0973         classes <TT>AdjustementOfFoundIntersection()</TT> using surface-normal
0974         of the intersecting solid to boost accuracy. Added the optional call
0975         to the new method in each concrete locator.</LI>
0976     </UL></LI>
0977 <LI><B>Solids (CSG)</B>
0978     <UL>
0979     <LI><TT>G4Tubs</TT>, <TT>G4Cons</TT>: implemented speed improvements and
0980         corrections from joint code review of <TT>G4Tubs</TT> and <TT>G4Cons</TT>
0981         classes. Cached computation for half-tolerance and use of Boolean flag
0982         for identifying if full-cone/tubs or section. Implemented caching of
0983         trigonometric values, now directly computed inside modifiers for
0984         <TT>Phi</TT> angles and required for parametrised cases (improvement
0985         bringing up to 20% speedup in normal tracking for tube/cone-sections
0986         placements).</LI>
0987     <LI><TT>G4Sphere</TT>: defined <TT>Get/SetInnerRadius()</TT> accessors to
0988         be compliant with other CSG solids.</LI>
0989     </UL></LI>
0990 <LI><B>Solids (Specific)</B>
0991     <UL>
0992     <LI>Corrected algorithm in <TT>G4TriangularFacet::GetPointOnFace()</TT>
0993         according to suggestion advanced in problem report
0994         <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1025">#1025</A>.
0995         Fixes a problem of false overlaps detection related to
0996         <TT>G4ExtrudedSolid</TT> and <TT>G4TessellatedSolid</TT>.
0997         Corrected initialisation of algorithm in <TT>G4TriangularFacet</TT>
0998         constructor.</LI>
0999     <LI><TT>G4ExtrudedSolid</TT>: fixed bug in the decomposition of polygonal
1000         sides for quadrangular facets in <TT>MakeFacets()</TT>. Addresses
1001         problem report
1002         <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1029">#1029</A>.</LI>
1003     <LI>Enhanced <TT>GetPointOnSurface()</TT> for generic <TT>G4Polycone</TT>
1004         and <TT>G4Polyhedra</TT> constructs.</LI>
1005     <LI>Added missing accessors to <TT>G4EllipticalCone</TT>.</LI>
1006     </UL></LI>
1007 <LI><B>Volumes</B>
1008     <UL>
1009     <LI><TT>G4ReflectionFactory</TT>: corrected singleton definition;
1010         return <TT>const G4String&</TT> instead of copy in
1011         <TT>GetVolumesNameExtension()</TT>.</LI>
1012     </UL></LI>
1013 </UL>
1014 
1015 <A NAME="glob-notes">
1016 <H3><I>Global</I></H3></A>
1017 <UL>
1018 <LI><TT>G4UnitsTable</TT>: added units for electric-field, <TT>V/m</TT>.</LI>
1019 <LI><TT>G4PhysicsVector</TT>: introduced cubic spline interpolation, optionally
1020     selectable. Optimised implementation of <TT>GetValue()</TT> method.</LI>
1021 <LI><TT>G4LPhysicsFreeVector</TT>: corrected use of <TT>GetValue()</TT> to
1022     adopt implementation available from the base class.</LI>
1023 <LI>Corrected initialisation of vectors to conform to definition in
1024     <TT>G4PhysicsVector</TT>, and added protections against empty vectors.</LI>
1025 <LI>Corrected definition of copy-constructor and <TT>operator=()</TT> in
1026     <TT>G4PhysicsVector</TT> and added corresponding definitions in derived
1027     classes, where needed.</LI>
1028 <LI>Added missing constructor <TT>G4String(const char*, str_size)</TT>.</LI>
1029 <LI>Modified <TT>G4RandomDirection</TT> global function to use unit radius
1030     sphere surface algorithm instead of 8-quadrants technique, giving ~30%
1031     performance boost in dedicated stress tests.</LI>
1032 <LI>Added header <TT>G4RandomTools.hh</TT>, implementing global utility methods for
1033     random Lambertian vector and random plane vector. Implementation derived
1034     from <TT>G4OpBoundaryProcess</TT>.</LI>
1035 <LI>Changed date for release 9.2.</LI>
1036 </UL>
1037 
1038 <A NAME="greps-notes">
1039 <H3><I>Graphical Representations</I></H3></A>
1040 <UL>
1041 <LI><TT>HepPolyhedronHype</TT>: fixed arrays upper-bound in constructor,
1042     responsible for memory corruption in visualization of <TT>G4Hype</TT>
1043     shape.</LI>
1044 </UL>
1045 
1046 <A NAME="had-notes">
1047 <H3><I>Hadronic Processes</I></H3></A>
1048 <UL>
1049 <LI>Replaced usage of <TT>G4NucleiPropertiesTable::GetBindingEnergy(Z,A)</TT>
1050     with <TT>G4NucleiProperties::GetBindingEnergy(A,Z)</TT> in all affected
1051     classes.</LI>
1052 <LI>Replaced usage of <TT>G4NucleiPropertiesTable::IsInTable()</TT> with
1053     <TT>G4NucleiProperties::IsInStableTable()</TT> where necessary.</LI>
1054 <LI><B>Cross sections</B>
1055     <UL>
1056     <LI><TT>G4CrossSectionDataStore</TT>: added method <TT>SampleZandA()</TT>,
1057         returning a <TT>G4Element</TT> and filling <TT>G4Nucleus</TT>.</LI>
1058     <LI><TT>G4GlauberGribovCrossSection</TT> provides a smooth transition from
1059         Barashenkov cross-sections at <TT>90 GeV</TT>; set threshold to
1060         <TT>90 GeV</TT> where this cross-section is used.</LI>
1061     <LI><TT>G4PiNuclearCrossSection</TT>: commented out debug calls to
1062         <TT>G4ping</TT>.</LI>
1063     <LI><TT>G4BGGPionElasticXS, G4BGGPionInelasticXS, G4BGGNucleonInelasticXS,
1064         G4BGGNucleonElasticXS, G4UPiNuclearCrossSection</TT>: added proper
1065         Coulomb barrier and cleanup implementations.</LI>
1066     </UL></LI>
1067 <LI><B>Management</B>
1068     <UL>
1069     <LI>Added class <TT>G4HadronicProcessStore</TT>, singleton class to keep
1070         pointers to all registered hadronic processes and to provide dump of
1071         process and models used in Physics List.</LI>
1072     <LI>Introduced new hadronic process subtype enum
1073         <TT>G4HadronicProcessType</TT>; added to <TT>G4HadronicProcess</TT>
1074         to identify process sub-types.</LI>
1075     <LI>Set process sub-type to <TT>fHadronInelastic</TT> for all process</LI>
1076     <LI><TT>G4HadronicProcess</TT>:
1077         <UL>
1078         <LI>Some cleanup; use method <TT>SampleZandA()</TT> to select an
1079             isotope and avoid use of debug local <TT>NanCheck()</TT>;
1080             avoid checking environment variables at run-time; directly fill
1081            <TT>G4HadronicWhiteBoard</TT>.</LI>
1082         <LI>Implemented <TT>PostStepDoIt()</TT> and <TT>DumpPhysicsTable()</TT>
1083             methods.</LI>
1084         <LI>Removed obsolete method <TT>SetDispatch()</TT>.</LI>
1085         <LI>Make <TT>MeanFreePath()</TT> public to avoid interface change
1086             (addressing problem report
1087             <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1035">#1035</A>).
1088             In future this method will become protected; a specific public
1089              method will be provided for it.</LI>
1090     <LI>Cleanup derived processes (<TT>G4HadronInelasticProcess</TT>, 
1091         <TT>G4HadronElasticProcess</TT>....) moving destructors to source of a class
1092         and use methods from the base class.</LI>
1093         </UL></LI>
1094     </UL></LI>
1095 <LI><B>Binary Cascade</B>
1096     <UL>
1097     <LI><TT>G4BinaryCascade, G4BinaryLightIonReaction</TT>: added name of the
1098         model; commented out welcome message.</LI>
1099     <LI>Made static instance of <TT>G4Scatterer</TT> in <TT>G4BinaryCascade</TT>
1100         class a data member instead, to avoid issues of static destruction at
1101         job closure; resolves issue detected by Valgrind.</LI>
1102     </UL></LI>
1103 <LI><B>Cascade</B>
1104     <UL>
1105     <LI>Implemented code review for optimization and speed up.</LI>
1106     <LI><TT>G4ElementaryParticleCollider</TT>: in method
1107         <TT>GenerateMultiplicity()</TT>, removed large_cut which increases
1108         multiplicity from 3 to 4 abruptly at <TT>4 GeV</TT> and above. This
1109         caused a sharp drop-off in the single pion spectra from <TT>pH</TT>
1110         reactions. The effect in heavier nuclei is small.</LI>
1111     <LI>Introduced simple wrapper class <TT>G4CascadeMomentum</TT> meant to
1112         replace usage of <TT>std::vector</TT> in the cascade code, to reduce
1113         memory allocations. Modified cascade code accordingly.</LI>
1114     <LI>Added Coulomb barrier plus barrier penetration in
1115         <TT>G4IntraNucleiCascader</TT>.</LI>
1116     <LI>Fixed multiplicity sampling in <TT>G4ElementaryParticleCollider</TT>
1117         method <TT>generateMultiplicity()</TT>. Now partial cross-sections are
1118         normalized to the total cross section instead of just the sum of 2-body
1119         to 6-body final state cross sections.
1120         Also fixed 2-body cross-sections above 7 GeV where they were too small.
1121         Fixed the same cross-sections which appear in
1122         <TT>G4CascadSpecialFunctions</TT>.</LI>
1123     <LI>Added comments to cross section tables in <TT>G4CascadSpecialFunctions</TT>
1124         and <TT>G4ElementaryParticleCollider</TT>.</LI>
1125     <LI>Replaced <TT>GetAtomicMass()</TT> with <TT>GetNuclearMass()</TT> in
1126         <TT>G4InuclEvaporation</TT> and <TT>G4BertiniEvaporation</TT>.</LI>
1127     <LI>Added name <TT>Bertini Cascade</TT> to <TT>G4CascadeInterface</TT>.</LI>
1128     </UL></LI>
1129 <LI><B>Chiral Invariant Phase Space (CHIPS)</B>
1130     <UL>
1131     <LI>Added <TT>G4QIonIonElastic</TT> process</LI>
1132     <LI>Added general process type to several processes.
1133         Set process sub-type to 11 (elastic) for <TT>G4QElastic</TT>,
1134         <TT>G4QIonIonElastic</TT>; sub-type 12 (inelastic) for
1135         <TT>G4QCollision</TT>, <TT>G4QDiffraction</TT>, <TT>G4QGluonString</TT>,
1136         <TT>G4QLowEnergy</TT>; sub-type 13 (capture) for <TT>G4QCaptureAtRest</TT>;
1137         sub-type 15 (stopping) for <TT>G4PionMinusNuclearAtRestChips</TT>,
1138         <TT>G4ProtonAntiProtonAtRestChips</TT>; sub-type 16 (quasi-elastic) for
1139         <TT>G4QCoherentChargeExchange</TT>; sub-type 10 (unknown) for
1140         <TT>G4QAtomicElectronScattering</TT>, <TT>G4QDiscProcessMixer</TT>.
1141         Set process type ID to <TT>fHadronAtRest</TT> for <TT>G4QCaptureAtRest</TT>,
1142         <TT>G4PionMinusNuclearAtRestChips</TT> and
1143         <TT>G4ProtonAntiProtonAtRestChips</TT>.</LI>
1144     <LI><TT>G4QCaptureAtRest</TT>: added registration in
1145         <TT>G4HadronicProcessStore</TT> and <TT>PrintInfo()</TT> by adding
1146         <TT>PreparePhysicsTable()</TT> and <TT>BuildPhysicsTable()</TT>.</LI>
1147     <LI><TT>G4GammaNuclearReaction</TT>: moved implementations from header to
1148         source and added ID name "CHIPS".</LI>
1149     <LI><TT>G4ElectroNuclearReaction</TT>: moved instantiation of HE model to
1150         constructor from run time and added ID name "CHIPS".</LI>
1151     </UL></LI>
1152 <LI><B>De-excitation</B>
1153     <UL>
1154     <LI><TT>G4PhotonEvaporation</TT>: atomic relaxation model is no longer
1155         applied following internal electron conversion. Instead the vacant
1156         shell index is passed to radioactive decay model, where the ARM is
1157         applied.</LI>
1158     <LI>New inverse cross sections:
1159         <UL>
1160         <LI>OPT=1 Chetterjee's parameterization to reaction cross sections
1161             from optical potential global fittings;</LI>
1162         <LI>OPT=2 as OPT=1 but for protons the Wellisch's parameterization
1163             for protons is used (DEFAULT);</LI>
1164         <LI>OPT=3 Kalbach's modifications of Chatterjee's parameterization
1165             of cross sections;</LI>
1166         <LI>OPT=4 as OPT=3 but for protons the Wellisch's parameterization
1167             for protons is used.</LI>
1168         </UL></LI>
1169     <LI>Integraded fixes in <TT>G4EvaporationProbabilities</TT>;
1170         OPT=2 is set.</LI>
1171     <LI>Switched off FermiBreakUp by default.</LI>
1172     <LI>Upgrades to evaporation and handler.</LI>
1173     <LI>Fixed problem report
1174         <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1028">#1028</A>
1175         in <TT>G4CompetitiveFission::FissionCharge()</TT>; trivial change of
1176         <TT>A</TT> to <TT>Af</TT>.</LI>
1177     <LI>Fix in <TT>G4GEMChannel</TT> according to
1178         <TT>(anA,aZ) -> (AResidual,ZResidual)</TT> for pairing correction
1179         in <TT>ExEnergy</TT>.</LI>
1180     <LI>Fix from JMQ for Zirconium</LI>
1181     <LI>Fixed minor memory leak in <TT>G4ExcitationHandler</TT> and
1182         <TT>G4EvaporationChannel</TT>.</LI>
1183     <LI>Increased verbosity in <TT>G4Evaporation</TT> to try to understand
1184         channel probability failure in very rare case.</LI>
1185     <LI>Trivial fix to prevent negative cross-sections for incident protons on
1186         targets with <TT>A < Carbon</TT>.</LI>
1187     </UL></LI>
1188 <LI><B>Elastic scattering</B>
1189     <UL>
1190     <LI><TT>G4ChargeExchangeProcess</TT>: added high and low energy protections
1191         to cross-section. Process and model prepared to be used in physics
1192         lists; energy threshold is set to <TT>1.0 MeV</TT>.</LI>
1193     <LI><TT>G4HadronElastic</TT>: added counts of abnornal sampling results
1194         and printing out values in the destructor; fixed sampling of scattering
1195         angle outside kinematically allowed interval.</LI>
1196     <LI>Set process sub-type according to enumerator for
1197         <TT>G4UHadronElasticProcess</TT> and 
1198         <TT>G4ChargeExchangeProcess</TT>.</LI>
1199     </UL></LI>
1200 <LI><B>High precision Neutron</B>
1201     <UL>
1202     <LI>Improved energy and angular distributions for both scattered neutron
1203         and recoil targets. Fixed missing inelastic gamma-ray lines.
1204         Addresses problem report
1205         <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1008">#1008</A>.</LI>
1206     <LI>Fixed bug for missed pouch-out particles.</LI>
1207     <LI>Introduced A and Z values of used NDL data for residual reconstruction.</LI>
1208     <LI>Adjusting final states based on the energy and momentum conservation.</LI>
1209     <LI>Limiting the sum of secondary energies.</LI>
1210     <LI>Fixed minor bug in <TT>G4NeutronHPLabAngularEnergy</TT>.</LI>
1211     <LI>Changed interpolation scheme for histogram in
1212         <TT>G4NeutronHPInterpolator</TT>.</LI>
1213     <LI>Fixed bug in <TT>Sample()</TT> and <TT>GetXsec()</TT>
1214         in <TT>G4NeutronHpVector</TT>.</LI>
1215     <LI>Prohibit level transition to oneself in <TT>G4NeutronHPDeExGammas</TT>.</LI>
1216     <LI>Fixed memory leak in <TT>G4NeutronHPPhotonDist</TT> and correcting data
1217         disorder which could happen when both <TT>InitPartial()</TT> and
1218         <TT>InitAngular()</TT> methods were called in same instance.</LI>
1219     <LI>Fixed calculation of residual momentum in
1220         <TT>G4NeutronHPInelasticCompFS</TT> and
1221         <TT>G4NeutronHPDiscreteTwoBody</TT>. Added protection for negative
1222         energy results in very low energy (<TT>1E-6 eV</TT>) scattering in
1223         <TT>G4NeutronHPElasticFS</TT>.</LI>
1224     <LI>Fixed minor memory leak in <TT>G4NeutronHPPhotonDist</TT>.</LI>
1225     <LI>Fixed problem in G4NeutronHPProduct resulting in too many secondaries
1226         production in nd rections.</LI>
1227     <LI>Added protection in <TT>G4NeutronHPName</TT> for selecting data in
1228         hydrogen and alpha.</LI>
1229     <LI>Fixed case of definition of <TT>G4PhysicsVector</TT> of length zero in
1230         <TT>G4NeutronHPIsoData</TT>.</LI>
1231     <LI>Fixed memory leak in <TT>G4NeutronHPThermalScattering</TT>.</LI>
1232     <LI>Added protection for invalid read in <TT>G4NeutronHPFissionData</TT>
1233         which caused run time errors.</LI>
1234     <LI>Fixed bug in <TT>G4NeutronHPChannel::Register()</TT>; added limitation
1235         of trial for creating final states and added protection for pure 1H
1236         case in <TT>G4NeutronHPInelastic</TT>.</LI>
1237     <LI>Updated data set to G4NDL3.13.</LI>
1238     </UL></LI>
1239 <LI><B>Im_r_matrix</B>
1240     <UL>
1241     <LI><TT>G4XNNElasticLowE, G4XNNTotalLowE</TT>: avoid use of static call
1242         to <TT>G4ParticleDefinition</TT> in destructor; resolves issue
1243          detected by Valgrind.</LI>
1244     </UL></LI>
1245 <LI><B>INCL/ABLA</B>
1246     <UL>
1247     <LI>Provided two fission models: by default GSI SimFis3 fission is used.
1248         Optional: SimFis18.</LI>
1249     <LI>Fixed serious data reading bug affecting the reading of some data
1250         files.</LI>
1251     <LI>Fixed initialisation of several variables to zero and target nucleus
1252         quantities. Improved coding style.</LI>
1253     <LI>Several array index handling (off-by-one) bugs fixed.</LI>
1254     <LI>Partial fix to the Alpha evaporation energies and fix to neutron
1255         energies.</LI>
1256     <LI>Switched the transformation matrix indices in ABLA.</LI>
1257     <LI>Use <TT>GetNuclearMass()</TT> instead of <TT>GetAtomicMass()</TT> in
1258         <TT>G4AblaEvaporation</TT>.</LI>
1259     </UL></LI>
1260 <LI><B>Parton-String</B>
1261     <UL>
1262     <LI>Revised string fragmentation and tuned parameters in FTF model for
1263         <TT>Pi+P</TT> and pion-nucleon interactions. Implemented quasi-elastic
1264         hadron-nucleus scattering in FTF and formation time; tuned string
1265         tension.</LI>
1266     <LI>Fixed logic in <TT>G4QGSParticipants</TT> algorithm: avoid usage of
1267         iterator decrementing in loops. Addresses problem report
1268         <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1018">#1018</A>.
1269     <LI>Fixed memory leak in <TT>G4FTFModel</TT> destructor.</LI>
1270     </UL></LI>
1271 <LI><B>Photolepton-hadron</B>
1272     <UL>
1273     <LI><TT>G4MuNuclearInteraction</TT>: added <TT>SubType</TT> to
1274         <TT>fHadronInelastic</TT> and registration in the
1275         <TT>G4HadronicProcessStore</TT>; added <TT>PreparePhysicsTable()</TT>
1276         method and some code cleanup.</LI>
1277     </UL></LI>
1278 <LI><B>Pre-equilibrium</B>
1279     <UL>
1280     <LI>Fixed <TT>G4PreCompoundNeutron</TT> using data for 22 MeV protons off Zirconium.</LI>
1281     <LI>Added data member initialisation to <TT>G4VPreCompoundTransitions</TT>,
1282         responsible for run-time errors detected by Valgrind.</LI>
1283     <LI>Added protection for close to zero excitation energy in
1284         <TT>G4PreCompoundModel</TT> to not try to
1285         de-excite.</LI>
1286     </UL></LI>
1287 <LI><B>QMD Reaction</B>
1288     <UL>
1289     <LI>Fixed and changed sampling method of impact parameter in
1290         <TT>G4QMDReaction</TT>. Added <TT>deltaT</TT> in signature of
1291         <TT>CalKinematicsOfBinaryCollisions()</TT>. Fixed bug in
1292         nucleon projectile.</LI>
1293     <LI>Added <TT>Update()</TT> method to <TT>G4QMDMeanField</TT>. Added
1294         <TT>hit</TT> flag and related methods to <TT>G4QMDParticipant</TT>.
1295         Added <TT>Erase/InsertParticipant()</TT> methods to <TT>G4QMDSystem</TT>.</LI>
1296     <LI>Added several required updates of Mean Field; modified handling of
1297         absorption case in <TT>G4QMDCollision</TT>.</LI>
1298     <LI>Fixed minor memory leaks.</LI>
1299     </UL></LI>
1300 <LI><B>Radioactive Decay</B>
1301     <UL>
1302     <LI><TT>G4NuclearDecayChannel</TT>: ARM is no longer applied in
1303         photon-evaporation for IT mode and is now applied at the end of
1304         <TT>DecayIt()</TT>; now using the correct shell index in appling ARM
1305         and switching on Auger electron production. Checking the residual
1306         kinetic energy after ARM and adding it to the atom.</LI>
1307     <LI>Replaced legacy calls to <TT>exit()</TT> with <TT>G4Exception</TT>
1308         in <TT>G4RadioactiveDecay</TT> and <TT>G4NuclearDecayChannel</TT>.</LI>
1309     </UL></LI>
1310 <LI><B>Re-Parameterized Gheisha</B>
1311     <UL>
1312     <LI>Fixed energy non-conservation problem in <TT>G4RPGFragmentation</TT>
1313         and in <TT>G4RPGReaction</TT>. Fixed <TT>K0</TT> ID problem in
1314         <TT>G4RPGInelastic</TT>.</LI>
1315     </UL></LI>
1316 <LI><B>Processes</B>
1317     <UL>
1318     <LI>Set sub-types for <TT>G4HadronCaptureProcess</TT> (to
1319         <TT>fCapture</TT>), <TT>G4HadronFissionProcess</TT> (to
1320         <TT>fFission</TT>) and to <TT>G4HadronElasticProcess</TT>
1321         (to <TT>fHadronElastic</TT>).</LI>
1322     <LI>Use <TT>PostStepDoIt()</TT> and <TT>DumpPhysicsTable()</TT> from
1323         the base class <TT>G4HadronicProcess</TT>.</LI>
1324     </UL></LI>
1325 <LI><B>Stopping</B>
1326     <UL>
1327     <LI>Set process sub-type to corresponding IDs in enumerator for
1328         <TT>AtRest</TT> processes.</LI>
1329     <LI><TT>G4MuonMinusCaptureAtRest</TT>: added registration in
1330         <TT>G4HadronicprocessStore</TT> and <TT>PrintInfo()</TT> by adding
1331         <TT>PreparePhysicsTable()</TT> and <TT>BuildPhysicsTable()</TT>
1332         methods.</LI>
1333     </UL></LI>
1334 </UL>
1335 
1336 <A NAME="interc-notes">
1337 <H3><I>Intercoms</I></H3></A>
1338 <UL>
1339 <LI>Added a new function in <TT>G4UIcommandTree</TT> to find a subtree.</LI>
1340 <LI>Fixed improper comment treatment for line continue characters "_" in class
1341     <TT>G4UIbatch</TT>. Addresses problem report
1342     <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1034">#1034</A>.</LI>
1343 </UL>
1344 
1345 <A NAME="interf-notes">
1346 <H3><I>Interfaces</I></H3></A>
1347 <UL>
1348 <LI>Improved layout of the <TT>Qt</TT> interface for <TT>Qt3</TT>.</LI>
1349 <LI>Added ability to launch <TT>G4Qt</TT> visualization without a
1350     <TT>G4UIQt</TT> interface.</LI>
1351 <LI>Added ability to have an external Qapp.</LI>
1352 <LI>Extended Qt driver help widget to include a search area.</LI>
1353 <LI>Removed Moc files, now autogenerated through central scripts.</LI>
1354 </UL>
1355 
1356 <A NAME="materials-notes">
1357 <H3><I>Materials</I></H3></A>
1358 <UL>
1359 <LI><TT>G4NistElementBuilder</TT>: provide unique name for each isotope of an
1360     element. Use best known parameterisation for total binding energy of atoms,
1361     use standard masses for lightest stable isotopes.</LI>
1362 <LI><TT>G4IonisParamElm</TT>: added Fermi velocity and L-factor (both used for
1363     parameterizations of the effective charge and straggling of ions).
1364     <TT>G4IonisParamMat</TT>: use Fermi velocity and L-factor from
1365     <TT>G4IonisParamElm</TT>.</LI>
1366 <LI>Added new classes <TT>G4IronStoppingICRU73</TT>,
1367     <TT>G4MaterialStoppingICRU73</TT> and <TT>G4SimpleMaterialStoppingICRU73</TT>
1368     for ICRU'73 data on stopping powers in the range <TT>25 keV/n - 10 MeV/n</TT>.</LI>
1369 <LI>Added virtual destructor to <TT>G4SurfaceProperty</TT> and derivated.
1370     Addresses problem report
1371     <A href="http://bugzilla-geant4.kek.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=1014">#1014</A>.
1372     Changed method name from <TT>DumpInfo()</TT> to <TT>DumpTableInfo()</TT>.</LI>
1373 <LI><TT>G4Material</TT>: use array size defined in material constructor,
1374     extend it if a component is a compound material.</LI>
1375 <LI><TT>G4Element</TT>: use G4int(fZeff) coherently in the implementation.</LI>
1376 <LI><TT>G4Isotope</TT>: use <TT>AtomicMass</TT> instead of <TT>NuclearMass</TT>.</LI>
1377 <LI>Added <TT>SetName()</TT> method to <TT>G4Element, G4Isotope, G4Material</TT>
1378     for use in detector persistency. Use <TT>const G4String&</TT> for accessors,
1379     instead of implicit copy.</LI>
1380 <LI><TT>G4NistManager</TT> and <TT>G4NistElementBuilder</TT>: added method
1381     <TT>GetTotalElectronBindingEnergy()</TT>.</LI>
1382 <LI><TT>G4NistManager</TT>: added inline methods to speed up EM computations.</LI>
1383 <LI><TT>G4IonisParamMat</TT>: added <TT>fMeanEnergyPerIon</TT> and Set/Get
1384      methods.</LI>
1385 <LI>Added dummy default constructor in <TT>G4OpticalSurface</TT> and
1386     <TT>G4SurfaceProperty</TT>.</LI>
1387 </UL>
1388 
1389 <A NAME="part-notes">
1390 <H3><I>Particles</I></H3></A>
1391 <UL>
1392 <LI>Added UI command for setting the verbosity level on the particle-table.</LI>
1393 <LI>Modified proton mass to be equal to <TT>proton_mass_c2</TT> from updated
1394     PDG-2008 values in CLHEP. Updated masses and widths according to PDG-2008.</LI>
1395 <LI>Avoid direct comparison of strings in method <TT>G4IonTable::IsIon()</TT>.</LI>
1396 <LI>Hidden all methods of getting mass of nucleus except for
1397     <TT>G4NucleiProperties::GetNuclearMass()</TT>, which should be now used.
1398     Cashed pointers/masses of light nuclei in <TT>G4NucleiProperties</TT>.</LI>
1399 <LI>Added a table of sum of masses of orbital electrons and their binding
1400     energy in <TT>G4NucleiProperties</TT>. Added methods of taking <TT>A</TT>
1401     and <TT>Z</TT> arguments as double. Added <TT>IsInStableTable()</TT> as
1402     replace of <TT>G4NucleiPropertiesTable::IsInTable()</TT>. Promoted to
1403     public methods <TT>GetBindingEnergy()</TT> and <TT>GetMassExcess()</TT>.</LI>
1404 <LI>Fix for using raw number of electron mass in calculation of magnetic
1405     moment for <TT>e+/-</TT>.</LI>
1406 <LI>Fixed magnetic momentum for leptons.</LI>
1407 <LI>New sub-module <TT>adjoint</TT> for adjoint-particles to be used in
1408     reverse MC simulations.</LI>
1409 <LI>Added more printout in <TT>G4HtmlPPReporter</TT> class.</LI>
1410 </UL>
1411 
1412 <A NAME="pers-notes">
1413 <H3><I>Persistency</I></H3></A>
1414 <UL>
1415 <LI>ASCII
1416     <UL>
1417     <LI>First implementation of a new reader module for detector persistency
1418         in ASCII text format, derived from GAMOS application.</LI>
1419     </UL></LI>
1420 <LI>GDML
1421     <UL>
1422     <LI>Introducing GDML writer: material properties; support for parameterised
1423         volumes; division volumes; replica volumes; matrices; naming of physical
1424         volumes; Twistedtrap, Twistedtubs, Tet, Twistedbox, Twistedtrd, Hype,
1425         Orb, Para, Ellipsoid, Ellipticaltube, Polyhedra, Torus, Cone, Tube,
1426         Extruded, Boolean (intersection, subtraction, union), Reflections
1427         (using scaled transformation) solids; elements and composite materials.</LI>
1428     <LI>Updated schema to include new features introduced in reader/writer plugins.
1429         Now requiring GDML_3_0_0 version of the schema.</LI>
1430     <LI>Added support for new serializer API as introduced in Xerces-3.0.0.</LI>
1431     <LI>Added support for modular files in GDML writer and reader.
1432         Added handling of precision and optional rounding of errors for
1433         imported/exported values. Added schema validation mechanism and schema
1434         files.</LI>
1435     <LI>Implemented mechanism for importing GDML descriptions with extensions
1436         to the GDML schema, identified by a new tag <TT>extension</TT>.</LI>
1437     <LI>Added features to reader: physical-volumes name; temperature, pressure
1438         and state of materials; NIST support. Added support for border surface
1439         and skin surface properties.</LI>
1440     <LI>Added optional handling if precision on values loaded.</LI>
1441     <LI>Implemented filtering of names in reader to remove from entity names
1442         appended reference pointer which may have been generated. Simplified
1443         name generated for physical-volumes. Added argument to Write() in
1444         G4GDMLParser for specify if appending or not reference pointer to
1445         generated names; default is TRUE.</LI>
1446     <LI>Enhanced name stripping in <TT>G4GDMLRead</TT>, to remove also
1447         additional IDs prepended to the original name of entities in the case
1448         of modular GDML files. Added <TT>StripNamePointers()</TT> method to
1449         <TT>G4GDMLParser</TT>, utility to be invoked in the user-code to strip
1450         off pointers from entity names in a GDML modular setup after loading
1451         all modules. Get rid of module-name pre-pended to entity names.</LI>
1452     <LI>Fixes in naming convention for solids; added specification of units
1453         where missing. Introduced parsing of vertices for tessellated solids
1454         to avoid duplication in writing.</LI>
1455     <LI>Added possibility to read/write replication for Rho and Phi axes.</LI>
1456     <LI>Added <TT>G4Paraboloid</TT> and <TT>G4EllipticalCone</TT> to list of
1457         supported solids for reader and writer.</LI>
1458     <LI>Added class <TT>G4STRead</TT>, for importing of STEP-Tools generated
1459         geometry setups.</LI>
1460     <LI>Cleared compilation warnings on Intel-icc compiler; general code
1461         review.</LI>
1462     </UL></LI>
1463 </UL>
1464 
1465 <A NAME="lst-notes">
1466 <H3><I>Physics lists</I></H3></A>
1467 <UL>
1468 <LI>Updated <TT>FTF*</TT> lists and physics NOT to use quasi-elastic from CHIPS.
1469     FTF now has quasi-elastic included in the FTF model itself.</LI>
1470 <LI>Updated <TT>option2</TT> EM physics (EMX) and added <TT>option3</TT>.</LI>
1471 <LI>Added hadron induced bremsstrahlung and pair production for proton and pions.</LI>
1472 <LI>Set <TT>inactive</TT> for <TT>AlongStep</TT> for Bremsstrahlung and pair
1473     production processes in all EM builders, bringing a minor CPU improvement.</LI>
1474 <LI>Added specialized <TT>G4eMultipleScattering</TT> for electrons and positrons 
1475     in all EM builders.</LI>
1476 <LI>Added <TT>sigma_c+, sigma_c++</TT> in the list of stable hadrons.</LI>
1477 <LI>New helper class <TT>G4PhysListFactory</TT> for building Physics Lists.</LI>
1478 <LI><TT>G4NeutronTrackingCut</TT>: added methods for directly defining time
1479     and energy limits.</LI>
1480 <LI><TT>G4HadronElasticPhysics</TT>: added optional Barashenkov
1481     cross-section.</LI>
1482 <LI><TT>G4ChargeExchangePhysics</TT>: new builder for hadronic charge exchange process for 
1483      proton, neutron and pions.</LI>
1484 <LI>QBBC: use FTF as a default, removed obsolete methods.
1485     Added temporary variant to QBBC, equivalent to QGSP_BERT without LHEP
1486     for protons, neutrons and pions. Added charge exchange process.
1487     Added QBBCG option and <TT>G4PhysListFactory</TT>.</LI>
1488 <LI>Added names to string models builders.</LI>
1489 <LI>Removed obsolete class G4HadronProcessStore.</LI>
1490 </UL>
1491 
1492 <A NAME="track-notes">
1493 <H3><I>Track & Tracking</I></H3></A>
1494 <UL>
1495 <LI><TT>G4SteppingManager</TT>: corrected conditions for default
1496     (<TT>InActivated</TT>) and <TT>NotForced</TT> processes.
1497     Fixed missing update of secondaries utility counter.</LI>
1498 <LI>Reset non-ionizing energy loss in <TT>G4Step::ResetTotalEnergyDeposit()</TT>
1499     in order to initialize NIEL in each step.</LI>
1500 <LI><TT>G4Track</TT>: changed to <TT>const</TT> pointers <TT>fpCreatorProcess</TT>
1501     and <TT>fpLCAtVertex</TT>.</LI>
1502 <LI><TT>G4StepPoint</TT>: changed to <TT>const</TT> pointer
1503     <TT>fpProcessDefinedStep</TT> data member.</LI>
1504 </UL>
1505 
1506 <A NAME="vis-notes">
1507 <H3><I>Visualization</I></H3></A>
1508 <UL>
1509 <LI><B>Overall</B>
1510     <UL>
1511     <LI>Extended 2D drawing capability, covering now also <TT>G4Circle,
1512         G4Polyhedron, G4Polyline, G4Polymarker</TT> and <TT>G4Square</TT>.</LI>
1513     <LI>Fixed gcc-4.3.0 compiler warnings.</LI>
1514     </UL></LI>
1515 <LI><B>Management</B>
1516     <UL>
1517     <LI>Trapped recursive use of <TT>/vis/reviewKeptEvents</TT>.</LI>
1518     <LI>Added function for IncrementPan with X,Y,Z values.</LI>
1519     </UL></LI>
1520 <LI><B>Modeling</B>
1521     <UL>
1522     <LI>Improved messages.</LI>
1523     </UL></LI>
1524 <LI><B>OpenGL</B>
1525     <UL>
1526     <LI>Fixed <TT>DBL_MAX</TT> problem in 2D drawing.</LI>
1527     <LI>Qt driver
1528         <UL>
1529         <LI>Added many improvements for Qt3.</LI>
1530         <LI>Changed last letter of driver names to lower case, from
1531             <TT>OGLSQT/OGLIQT</TT> to <TT>OGLSQt/OGLIQt</TT>.</LI>
1532         <LI>Fixed crash that occurred when had no scene.</LI>
1533         <LI>Added commands for mouse wheel zoom.</LI>
1534         <LI>Fixed problem when launching QT VIS without QT UI (N02 for example).</LI>
1535         <LI>Added movie making dialog panel
1536             (Right button->Actions->Movie parameters).</LI>
1537         <LI>Added ability to "auto rotate" volume via quick mouse move.</LI>
1538         <LI>Added moving camera on left/right/up/down arrow, going
1539             forward/backward with SHIFT+up/down, zoom in with +/- keys.</LI>
1540         <LI>Fixed bug in help command whereby click callback on a item was not
1541             working on Windows.</LI>
1542         <LI>Fixed crash at exit on Mac.</LI>
1543         <LI>Added many graphic export options (vector and pixel) including EPS.</LI>
1544         <LI>Fixed aspect ratio deformation on widget resize.</LI>
1545         <LI>Removed Moc files, now autogenerated through config/common.gmk.</LI>
1546         </UL></LI>
1547     </UL></LI>
1548 </UL>
1549 
1550 <A NAME="env-notes">
1551 <H3><I>Environments</I></H3></A>
1552 <UL>
1553 <LI>Introduced <TT>g4py</TT> module name.</LI>
1554 <LI>Removed legacy interface to GDML external module.</LI>
1555 <LI>Updated G4Py configure scripts, fixed some minor bugs and
1556     general code cleanup.</LI>
1557 </UL>
1558 
1559 <A NAME="data-notes">
1560 <H3><I>Data sets</I></H3></A>
1561 <UL>
1562 <LI>New data for neutron cross-sections, G4NDL.3.13:
1563     <UL>
1564     <LI>Added rest of isotope in JENDL_HE neutron files:
1565         <TT>N(7), Ti(46, 47, 48, 49 50), V(51), Cr(50, 52, 53, 54), Mn(55),
1566         Co(59), Ni(58, 60, 61, 62, 62), Zr(90, 91, 92, 94, 96), Nb(94),   
1567         W(180, 182, 183, 184, 186), Hg(196, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204)</TT></LI>
1568     <LI>New Elastic and Inelastic cross section from "JENDL High Energy File
1569         2007"  All 107 isotopes are converted (except for <TT>Am242m</TT>).</LI>
1570     <LI>Added data file: <TT>Inelastic/Gammas/z63.a149</TT>.</LI>
1571     <LI>Replaced <TT>Nitrogen15</TT> data (source: ENDF6).</LI>
1572     <LI>Corrected wrong entries in some Inelastic and Capture data.
1573         Previous files are still available in each directory with suffix
1574         of .org.</LI>
1575     </UL></LI>
1576 <LI>New low-energy data set, G4EMLOW.6.2:
1577     <UL>
1578     <LI>Added in DNA tables for: Champion elastic scattering model and
1579         Champion Positronium creation model.</LI>
1580     </UL></LI>
1581 </UL>
1582 
1583 <A NAME="ex-notes">
1584 <H3><I>Examples</I></H3></A>
1585 <UL>
1586 <LI>Various fixes, improvements, adoption of new features.</LI>
1587 <LI>Updated reference outputs.</LI>
1588 <LI><B>advanced</B>
1589     <UL>
1590     <LI>brachytherapy
1591         <UL>
1592         <LI>Corrected and updated input macros.</LI>
1593         </UL></LI>
1594     <LI>gammaray_telescope
1595         <UL>
1596         <LI>Fixed compilation problems in <TT>MuonPhysicsList</TT> class.</LI>
1597         </UL></LI>
1598     <LI>hadrontherapy
1599         <UL>
1600         <LI>Reviewed example to update to the new beam line setup.</LI>
1601         <LI>Corrections in the Low Energy Electromagnetic physic lists.
1602             Improved the electromagnetic models for the generic ions.
1603             Corrected cross sections definitions for ions. Revised the
1604             definition and use of the electromagnetic options for the use
1605             with the Standard models.</LI>
1606         <LI>Added new approach for the choice of the physic models. Now
1607             packaged physic lists can be used as alternative to the physic
1608             models implemented in the class files EM, HE and HI.</LI>
1609         <LI>Fixed path of macro files.</LI>
1610         </UL></LI>
1611     <LI>microbeam
1612         <UL>
1613         <LI>Corrected typos in zero field region in <TT>MicrobeamEMField</TT>.</LI>
1614         </UL></LI>
1615     <LI>microdosimetry
1616         <UL>
1617         <LI>New application simulating 10 keV tracks Helium+ (positive
1618             charge is +e) particle in liquid water using only <TT>G4DNA</TT>
1619             processes.</LI>
1620         </UL></LI>
1621     <LI>Rich
1622         <UL>
1623         <LI>Fixed compilation problems in <TT>EventAction</TT> class.</LI>
1624         </UL></LI>
1625     </UL></LI>
1626 <LI><B>extended</B>
1627     <UL>
1628     <LI>Updated EM standard physics-lists and EM options and changed
1629         default histograms format in EM examples.</LI>
1630     <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm7
1631         <UL>
1632         <LI>Added process type to <TT>G4SceenNuclearRecoil</TT>.</LI>
1633         <LI>Added <LI>standardICRU73</LI> physics list in which ion ionisation
1634             is simulated using new model G4IonLossParametrisedModel, configured
1635             via <TT>G4EmConfigurator</TT>.</LI>
1636         </UL></LI>
1637     <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm8
1638         <UL>
1639         <LI>Removed local components of <TT>PhysicsList</TT> and use
1640             <TT>G4EmConfigurator</TT> to configure PAI model.</LI>
1641         </UL></LI>
1642     <LI>electromagnetic/TestEm9
1643         <UL>
1644         <LI>Added computation of ratios E1/E9 and E1/E25.</LI>
1645         <LI>Added PhysLists with relativistic LPM model and updated macros.</LI>
1646         <LI>Added control on number of events with Edep < 80%.</LI>
1647         </UL></LI>
1648     <LI>eventgenerator/exgps
1649         <UL>
1650         <LI>Updated analysis code and macros with AIDA.</LI>
1651         </UL></LI>
1652     <LI>eventgenerator/pythia
1653         <UL>
1654         <LI>New example <TT>decayer6</TT> of external decayer implementation
1655             based on Pythia6.</LI>
1656         </UL></LI>
1657     <LI>field/field04
1658         <UL>
1659         <LI>Fixed setup of random engine in <TT>main()</TT>.</LI>
1660         <LI>Changed physics list to <TT>emstandard</TT>. Added charge
1661             exchange.</LI>
1662         </UL></LI>
1663     <LI>hadronic/Hadr00
1664         <UL>
1665         <LI>New example demonstrating how to use <TT>G4PhysListFactory</TT>
1666             to build physics lists and <TT>G4HadronicProcessStore</TT> to
1667             access cross sections.</LI>
1668         </UL></LI>
1669     <LI>hadronic/Hadr01
1670         <UL>
1671         <LI>Improved physics-lists output. Added charge exchange.</LI>
1672         </UL></LI>
1673     <LI>medical/DICOM
1674         <UL>
1675         <LI>Included <TT>G4PSDoseDeposit_RegNav</TT> to distribute dose along
1676             voxels, including msc and energy loss corrections, for the case
1677             of skipping voxel with equal materials when using regular
1678             navigation.</LI>
1679         </UL></LI>
1680     <LI>medical/fanoCavity[2]
1681         <UL>
1682         <LI>Updated EM standard physics-lists and EM options and changed
1683             default histograms format.</LI>
1684         </UL></LI>
1685     <LI>optical/LXe
1686         <UL>
1687         <LI>Added Birks constant for the LXe scintillator and Polystyrene
1688             scintillator.</LI>
1689         <LI>Added call to <TT>SetMaxBetaChangePerStep()</TT> of Cherenkov
1690             in <TT>LXeOpticalPhysics</TT>.</LI>
1691         </UL></LI>
1692     <LI>persistency/gdml
1693         <UL>
1694         <LI>Added examples set for GDML plugin module: new example <TT>G02</TT>
1695             showing how to use GDML module for reading and writing; also showing
1696             how to import STEP Tools CAD files.
1697             Imported old GDML example originally placed inside
1698             <TT>extended/gdml</TT> and renamed <TT>G01</TT>.</LI>
1699         <LI><TT>G01</TT>: updated <TT>loop.gdml</TT> and <TT>solids.gdml</TT>
1700             descriptions to fix schema validation warnings; added new GDML
1701             samples compliant with GDML_3_0_0 and removed obsolete ones.
1702             Added example in <TT>main()</TT> how to retrieve auxiliary
1703             information.</LI>
1704         <LI><TT>G03</TT>: new example showing how to extend the GDML schema
1705             in input.</LI>
1706         </UL></LI>
1707     <LI>persistency/P03
1708         <UL>
1709         <LI>New example showing usage of ASCII text persistency for detector
1710             description.</LI>
1711         </UL></LI>
1712     <LI>radioactivedecay/exrdm
1713         <UL>
1714         <LI><TT>exdrmMaterialMessenger</TT>: fixed units for density.</LI>
1715         <LI><TT>exdrmPhysicsList</TT>: fixed definition of cuts; simplified
1716             logic for setting of hadronic physics; corrected problem of double
1717             instantiation of radioactive decay.</LI>
1718         <LI>Use AIDA setup from central scripts. Updated analysis code and
1719             macros with AIDA.</LI>
1720         <LI>Fixed compilation warnings.</LI>
1721         </UL></LI>
1722     <LI>runAndEvent/RE03
1723         <UL>
1724         <LI>Add new input macro <TT>run4.mac</TT> with cylindrical scoring
1725             mesh.</LI>
1726         </UL></LI>
1727     </UL></LI>
1728 <LI><B>novice</B>
1729     <UL>
1730     <LI>N02
1731         <UL>
1732         <LI><TT>PhysicsList</TT>: added method <TT>AddStepMax()</TT> for
1733             <TT>G4StepLimiter</TT>. Updated EM standard physics-list.</LI>
1734         <LI><TT>DetectorConstruction</TT>: added method
1735             <TT>SetMaxStep()</TT>.</LI>
1736         <LI><TT>DetectorMessenger</TT>: added command
1737             <TT>/N02/det/stepMax</TT>.</LI>
1738         </UL></LI>
1739     <LI>N03
1740         <UL>
1741         <LI>Updated EM standard physics-list.</LI>
1742         <LI>Use <TT>G4hMultipleScattering</TT> for muons and protons.</LI>
1743         <LI>Added Qt setup to vis macros.</LI>
1744         </UL></LI>
1745     <LI>N06
1746         <UL>
1747         <LI>Use <TT>dynamic_cast</TT> for surface in
1748             <TT>ExN06DetectorConstruction</TT>.</LI>
1749         <LI>Added call to <TT>SetMaxBetaChangePerStep()</TT> of Cherenkov in
1750             <TT>ExN06PhysicsList</TT>.</LI>
1751         </UL></LI>
1752     </UL></LI>
1753 </UL>
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