Guide for Physics Lists

Scope of this Manual

This guide is a description of the physics lists class which is one of the mandatory user classes for a Geant4 application. For the most part the “reference” physic lists included in the source distribution are described here as well the modularity and electronic options. Some use cases and areas of application are also described.

Contents:

• Physics List Guide
  • Bibliography
• Reference Physics Lists
  • FTFP_BERT
  • QBBC
  • QGSP_BERT
  • QGSP_BIC
  • Shielding
• Electromagnetic physics constructors
  • EM physics constructors
  • EM Opt0
  • EM Opt1
  • EM Opt2
  • EM Opt3
  • EM Opt4
  • EM Liv
  • EM Pen
  • EM GS
  • EM LE
  • EM WVI
  • EM SS
  • EM DNA
  • Tables by constructor
  • Tables by particle
• Hadronic Physics
  • New UI commands in hadronics
  • Scaling factors for cross sections
  • Charm and bottom hadronic physics
  • Use of QGS for hyperons, anti-hyperons and anti-nucleons
  • Coalescence Model for Cosmic-Ray applications
  • New low-energy gamma-nuclear final-state model

Status of this Document

Guide describing Physics Lists and their possible application in more detail.

• Rev 1.0: First sphinx version implemented for Geant4 Release 10.4, 8th Dec 2017

• Rev 2.0: Updates and fixes in documentation for Geant4 Release 10.4, 15th May 2018

• Rev 3.0: Geant4 Release 10.5, 11th December 2018

• Rev 3.1: Geant4 Updates and fixes - especially to search functionality, 5th March 2019

• Rev 4.0: Geant4 Release 10.6, 6th December 2019

• Rev 5.0: Geant4 Release 10.7, 4th December 2020

• Rev 6.0: Geant4 Release 11.0, 10th December 2021

• Rev 7.0: Geant4 Release 11.1, 9th December 2022

• Rev 7.1: Addition of extensible physics list factory, 21st April 2023

• Rev 7.2: Geant4 Fixes to http links, 15th July 2023

• Rev 8.0: Geant4 Release 11.2, 8th December 2023

• Rev 9.0: Geant4 Release 11.3, 6th December 2024

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