update likelihood function to fit electrons!

To characterize the angular distribution of photons from an electromagnetic
shower I came up with the following functional form:

    f(cos_theta) ~ exp(-abs(cos_theta-mu)^alpha/beta)

and fit this to data simulated using RAT-PAC at several different energies. I
then fit the alpha and beta coefficients as a function of energy to the
functional form:

    alpha = c0 + c1/log(c2*T0 + c3)
    beta  = c0 + c1/log(c2*T0 + c3).

where T0 is the initial energy of the electron in MeV and c0, c1, c2, and c3
are parameters which I fit.

The longitudinal distribution of the photons generated from an electromagnetic
shower is described by a gamma distribution:

    f(x) = x**(a-1)*exp(-x/b)/(Gamma(a)*b**a).

This parameterization comes from the PDG "Passage of particles through matter"
section 32.5. I also fit the data from my RAT-PAC simulation, but currently I
am not using it, and instead using a simpler form to calculate the coefficients
from the PDG (although I estimated the b parameter from the RAT-PAC data).

I also sped up the calculation of the solid angle by making a lookup table
since it was taking a significant fraction of the time to compute the
likelihood function.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/proton.h b/src/proton.h
index 8e19e9c..008f835 100644
--- a/src/proton.h
+++ b/src/proton.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <stddef.h> /* for size_t */
 
 double proton_get_range(double T, double rho);
+double proton_get_dEdx_rad(double T, double rho);
 double proton_get_dEdx(double T, double rho);
 
 #endif