Hello
I’ve recently updating the version of G4 I’m using (in conjunction with the Opticks framework) from 10.7 to 11 and I’m having a peculiar issue.
After upgrading I noticed that the optical photons that were being created (Cerenkov radiation) had stopped propagating.
Upon some investigation I found that they were now being absorbed (inline void G4OpBoundaryProcess::DoAbsorption()) and thus killed. This absorption was being triggered by a change in the reflectivity (G4VParticleChange* G4OpBoundaryProcess::PostStepDoIt(const G4Track& aTrack, const G4Step& aStep)) the change in the reflectivity was drastic (a drop from 0.88 to 0.14) which explains the absorpion.
Further tracking of the issue led to the reason why the reflectivity so drastically reduced. Where the reflectivity is retrieved (G4double G4PhysicsVector::Value(G4double theEnergy, std::size_t& lastIdx)) the set maximum and minimum of the binVector (photonmomentum in this case) which are edgeMax and edgeMin respectively have been reversed, thus edgeMax<edgeMin, thus all checks fall into the lowest bin returning the lowest reflectivity.
I’ve found that edgeMin and edgeMax are set when the G4PhysicsFreeVector is created (G4PhysicsFreeVector::G4PhysicsFreeVector(const std::vector& energies,const std::vector& values,G4bool spline)). From this I learned that the reason that edgeMin and edgeMax are wrong is that it is assumed the vector from which they are set is ordered in increasing value.
All the vectors in question seem to be of type G4MaterialPropertyVector which itself is of type G4PhysicsFreeVector in G4 11 (G4PhysicsOrderedFreeVector in G4 10.7). I’ve done some testing and although data is read into these vectors in identical order regardless of G4 version, when read back out (using GetProperty()) in G4 11 they come out in reverse order which ultimately causes all other issues.
Now, I’m relatively new to G4 so maybe Im doing something dumb, I know that G4PhysicsOrderFreeVector was removed in G4 11 and replace with G4PhysicsFreeVector but I cant see why this change alone would alter the order of the elements in the vectors. Furthermore if this was an actual bug (rather than something dumb Im missing) I would expect it to have broken a lot more than just my code.
So has anyone had a similar issue? or does anyone know exactly the dumb mistake I’ve made? I’m guessing a simple one line correction but so far i’ve not found it
Thanks
Keith