MCPL: Monte Carlo Particle List


                              Titles:  MCPL
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Contact:  D. Wark, Oxford.
 
Revision History:-
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3.01    D. Wark         First version.
3.02    N. West         Full support for multi-particle MCPL.


 
Titles Files
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mcpl_data.dat
 
 
Verification
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Description
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This bank contains a list of particle types, positions, directions, etc. If
MCTYPE is set equal to minus the MCPL bank number the generator will read this
list and use them verbatim for any of the distributions (position, direction,
time, energy, or polarisation) which have distribution code set to use the MCPL. 
Each row represents one track.  An event consists of one or more tracks. The
first word of each track is the number of tracks in the event. If the 
interaction code is set to PARTICLE_LIST then a single "particle" will reproduce
the entire event, otherwise only the first track of each event is used.  See
the User Manual for more detail.
   
Data Words
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        Fixed length Database Header.  See titles_dbhdr.html
 
Word    Type     Description
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  1      I       Number of events in the list.
  2      I       Number of words per track. (This may vary because
                 polarisation is included only for Cerenkov photons).
 j+1     I       Number of particles in this event.     
 j+2     I       Particle type of this particle.
 j+3   F,F,F     X,Y,Z of particle.
 j+6     F       Time of particle.
 j+7     F       Energy of particle.
 j+8   F,F,F     U,V,W of particle.
 j+11  F,F,F     x,y,z components of the particle's polarisation.
                      

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