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2018-09-17update muon kinetic energy calculationtlatorre
This commit updates the calculation of the muon kinetic energy as a function of distance along the track. Previously I was using an approximation from the PDG, but it doesn't seem to be very accurate and won't generalize to the case of electrons. The kinetic energy is now calculated using the tabulated values of dE/dx as a function of energy.
2018-08-14fix how the RMS scattering angle is calculatedtlatorre
The RMS scattering angle calculation comes from Equation 33.15 in the PDG article on the passage of particles through matter. It's not entirely obvious if this equation is correct for a long track. It seems like it should be integrated along the track to add up the contributions at different energies, but it's not obvious how to do that with the log term. In any case, the way I was previously calculating it (by using the momentum and velocity at each point along the track) was definitely wrong. I will try this out and perhaps try to integrate it later.
2018-08-14move everything to src directorytlatorre