a question regarding GEANT's track-stopping conditions

From: Aaron Joseph Maschinot (ajmasch@MIT.EDU)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 16:15:17 EDT

Hello, all:

Does anyone know what the condition(s) is (are) for GEANT to stop keeping
track of a particle? For example, I know one condition seems to be
whether or not the particle has been tracked for 1000 steps. This
variable can be changed inside of "blast_init.f". Another condition seems
to be if the particle's total path length is greater than 600cm (i.e. the
length of the radius of the LAS- volume). Is this one true? Where is this condition (and any others) set at? I know that
tracking stops when the variable ISTOP is set equal to zero, but I can't
find where (and why) this is done.

Thanks,

Aaron

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