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// File G4OpMieHG.hh
// Description: Discrete Process -- Mie Scattering of Optical Photons
// Created: 2010-07-03
// Author: Xin Qian
// Based on work from Vlasios Vasileiou
//
// This subroutine will mimic the Mie scattering based on 
// Henyey-Greenstein phase function
// Forward and backward angles are treated separately.
//
// mail:  gum@triumf.ca
//
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#include "G4OpMieHG.hh"
#include "G4PhysicalConstants.hh"
#include "G4OpProcessSubType.hh"
 
G4OpMieHG::G4OpMieHG(const G4String& processName, G4ProcessType type)
           : G4VDiscreteProcess(processName, type)
{
        if (verboseLevel>0) {
           G4cout << GetProcessName() << " is created " << G4endl;
        }
 
        SetProcessSubType(fOpMieHG);
}
 
G4OpMieHG::~G4OpMieHG(){}
 
        ////////////
        // Methods
        ////////////
 
// PostStepDoIt
// -------------
//
G4VParticleChange* 
G4OpMieHG::PostStepDoIt(const G4Track& aTrack, const G4Step& aStep)
{
        aParticleChange.Initialize(aTrack);
 
        const G4DynamicParticle* aParticle = aTrack.GetDynamicParticle();
    const G4Material* aMaterial = aTrack.GetMaterial();
    G4MaterialPropertiesTable* aMaterialPropertyTable =
      aMaterial->GetMaterialPropertiesTable();
 
    G4double forward_g =
              aMaterialPropertyTable->GetConstProperty("MIEHG_FORWARD");
    G4double backward_g =
              aMaterialPropertyTable->GetConstProperty("MIEHG_BACKWARD");
    G4double ForwardRatio =
              aMaterialPropertyTable->GetConstProperty("MIEHG_FORWARD_RATIO");
 
        if (verboseLevel>0) {
        G4cout << "MIE Scattering Photon!" << G4endl;
        G4cout << "MIE Old Momentum Direction: "
                 << aParticle->GetMomentumDirection() << G4endl;
        G4cout << "MIE Old Polarization: "
             << aParticle->GetPolarization() << G4endl;
    }
 
        G4double gg;
        G4int direction;
        if (G4UniformRand()<=ForwardRatio){
           gg = forward_g;
           direction = 1;
        } else {
           gg = backward_g;
           direction = -1;
    }
 
        G4double r = G4UniformRand();
 
        G4double Theta;
        //sample the direction
        if (gg!=0) {
          Theta = std::acos(2*r*(1+gg)*(1+gg)*(1-gg+gg*r)/((1-gg+2*gg*r)*(1-gg+2*gg*r)) -1);
        } else {
          Theta = std::acos(2*r-1.);
    }
        G4double Phi = G4UniformRand()*2*pi;
 
        if (direction==-1) Theta = pi - Theta; //backward scattering
 
        G4ThreeVector NewMomentumDirection, OldMomentumDirection;
        G4ThreeVector OldPolarization, NewPolarization;
 
        NewMomentumDirection.set
                       (std::sin(Theta)*std::cos(Phi), std::sin(Theta)*std::sin(Phi), std::cos(Theta));
        OldMomentumDirection = aParticle->GetMomentumDirection();
        NewMomentumDirection.rotateUz(OldMomentumDirection);
        NewMomentumDirection = NewMomentumDirection.unit();
 
        OldPolarization = aParticle->GetPolarization();
        G4double constant = -1./NewMomentumDirection.dot(OldPolarization);
 
        NewPolarization = NewMomentumDirection + constant*OldPolarization;
        NewPolarization = NewPolarization.unit();
 
        if (NewPolarization.mag()==0) {
           r = G4UniformRand()*twopi;
           NewPolarization.set(std::cos(r),std::sin(r),0.);
           NewPolarization.rotateUz(NewMomentumDirection);
        } else {
       // There are two directions which perpendicular
           // new momentum direction
           if (G4UniformRand() < 0.5) NewPolarization = -NewPolarization;
        }
 
        aParticleChange.ProposePolarization(NewPolarization);
        aParticleChange.ProposeMomentumDirection(NewMomentumDirection);
 
        if (verboseLevel>0) {
              G4cout << "MIE New Polarization: " 
                     << NewPolarization << G4endl;
              G4cout << "MIE Polarization Change: "
                     << *(aParticleChange.GetPolarization()) << G4endl;  
              G4cout << "MIE New Momentum Direction: " 
                     << NewMomentumDirection << G4endl;
              G4cout << "MIE Momentum Change: "
                     << *(aParticleChange.GetMomentumDirection()) << G4endl; 
        }
 
        return G4VDiscreteProcess::PostStepDoIt(aTrack, aStep);
}
 
// GetMeanFreePath()
// -----------------
//
G4double G4OpMieHG::GetMeanFreePath(const G4Track& aTrack,
                                    G4double ,
                                    G4ForceCondition* )
{
        const G4DynamicParticle* aParticle = aTrack.GetDynamicParticle();
        const G4Material* aMaterial = aTrack.GetMaterial();
 
        G4double thePhotonEnergy = aParticle->GetTotalEnergy();
 
        G4double AttenuationLength = DBL_MAX;
 
        G4MaterialPropertiesTable* aMaterialPropertyTable =
          aMaterial->GetMaterialPropertiesTable();
 
        if (aMaterialPropertyTable) {
           G4MaterialPropertyVector* AttenuationLengthVector =
                                 aMaterialPropertyTable->GetProperty("MIEHG");
           if (AttenuationLengthVector) {
              AttenuationLength = AttenuationLengthVector ->
                                    Value(thePhotonEnergy);
           } else {
//              G4cout << "No Mie scattering length specified" << G4endl;
           }
        } else {
//           G4cout << "No Mie scattering length specified" << G4endl; 
        }
 
//  G4cout << thePhotonEnergy/GeV << " \t" << AttenuationLength/m << G4endl;
 
        return AttenuationLength;
}