Simulation of photoelectric effect

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| Geant 3.15  |               GEANT User's Guide              | PHYS231  ##
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Author(s) : L.Urban Submitted: 26.10.84 Origin : GEANT2 Revised: 17.12.92

Subroutines

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                     |CALL GPHOT  |
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GPHOT simulates the photoelctric effect. It uses the following input and output:

Input
via common /GCTRAK/
Output
via common /GCKING/

GPHOT is called automatically by the tracking routine GTGAMA, if, and when, the photon reaches its interaction point.

Method

The simulation of the photoelectric effect is presently rather crude. If photoelectric interaction has occured a photoelectron is created with the same direction as the incident photon and with total energy

    E =E     - E (Z)+ m
        gamma   k
where E (Z) is the K, L or L shell energy. k I II