Commit 8ab1fd1b authored by Simon Gardner's avatar Simon Gardner
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Add configuration to set particle start time within uniform time window

parent 7e304b2f

src/modules/DepositionGeant4/GeneratorActionG4.cpp

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@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ GeneratorActionG4::GeneratorActionG4(const Configuration& config) 
            single_source->SetNumberOfParticles(1);

            single_source->SetParticleDefinition(particle);

            // Set the primary track's start time in for the current event to zero:

            single_source->SetParticleTime(0.0);

            time_        = config_.get<double>("source_time",        Units::get(0.0, "ns"));

            time_window_ = config_.get<double>("source_time_window", Units::get(0.0, "ns"));

            single_source->SetParticleTime(time_);

        }

        

        // Set energy parameters
@@ -337,8 +339,6 @@ void GeneratorActionG4::GeneratePrimaries(G4Event* event) { 
            // Set global parameters of the source

            single_source->SetNumberOfParticles(1);

            single_source->SetParticleDefinition(particle);

            // Set the primary track's start time in for the current event to zero:

            single_source->SetParticleTime(0.0);



            // mark the initialization done

            initialize_ion_as_particle_ = false;
@@ -350,6 +350,12 @@ void GeneratorActionG4::GeneratePrimaries(G4Event* event) { 
        }

    }



    // Set the time of the particle source within the time window

    if(time_window_ > 0) {

        double event_time = time_ + G4UniformRand() * time_window_;

        particle_source_->SetParticleTime(event_time);

    }



    particle_source_->GeneratePrimaryVertex(event);

}

src/modules/DepositionGeant4/GeneratorActionG4.hpp

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@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ namespace allpix { 
        std::string particle_type_;



        bool initialize_ion_as_particle_{false};



        double time_{0.0};

        double time_window_{0.0};

        

    };



    /**