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// Optical Photon Absorption Class Implementation
//
// File:        G4OpAbsorption.cc
// Description: Discrete Process -- Absorption of Optical Photons  
// Version:     1.0
// Created:     1996-05-21
// Author:      Juliet Armstrong
// Updated:     2005-07-28 - add G4ProcessType to constructor
//              2000-09-18 by Peter Gumplinger
//              > comment out warning - "No Absorption length specified" 
//              1997-04-09 by Peter Gumplinger
//              > new physics/tracking scheme
//              1998-08-25 by Stefano Magni
//              > Change process to use G4MaterialPropertiesTables
//              1998-09-03 by Peter Gumplinger
//              > Protect G4MaterialPropertyVector* AttenuationLengthVector
// mail:        gum@triumf.ca
//              magni@mi.infn.it
//

#include "G4ios.hh"
#include "G4OpProcessSubType.hh"

#include "G4OpAbsorption.hh"

// Class Implementation

        // Operators

// G4OpAbsorption::operator=(const G4OpAbsorption &right)
// {
// }

        // Constructors

G4OpAbsorption::G4OpAbsorption(const G4String& processName, G4ProcessType type)
              : G4VDiscreteProcess(processName, type)
{
        if (verboseLevel>0) {
           G4cout << GetProcessName() << " is created " << G4endl;
        }

        SetProcessSubType(fOpAbsorption);
}

// G4OpAbsorption::G4OpAbsorption(const G4OpAbsorpton &right)
// {
// }

        // Destructors

G4OpAbsorption::~G4OpAbsorption(){}

        // Methods

// PostStepDoIt
// -------------
//
G4VParticleChange*
G4OpAbsorption::PostStepDoIt(const G4Track& aTrack, const G4Step& aStep)
{
        aParticleChange.Initialize(aTrack);

        aParticleChange.ProposeTrackStatus(fStopAndKill);

        if (verboseLevel>0) {
       G4cout << "\n** Photon absorbed! **" << G4endl;
        }
        return G4VDiscreteProcess::PostStepDoIt(aTrack, aStep);
}


// GetMeanFreePath
// ---------------
//
G4double G4OpAbsorption::GetMeanFreePath(const G4Track& aTrack,
                         G4double ,
                         G4ForceCondition* )
{
    const G4DynamicParticle* aParticle = aTrack.GetDynamicParticle();
        const G4Material* aMaterial = aTrack.GetMaterial();

    G4double thePhotonMomentum = aParticle->GetTotalMomentum();

    G4MaterialPropertiesTable* aMaterialPropertyTable;
    G4MaterialPropertyVector* AttenuationLengthVector;
    
        G4double AttenuationLength = DBL_MAX;

    aMaterialPropertyTable = aMaterial->GetMaterialPropertiesTable();

    if ( aMaterialPropertyTable ) {
       AttenuationLengthVector = aMaterialPropertyTable->
                                                GetProperty("ABSLENGTH");
           if ( AttenuationLengthVector ){
             AttenuationLength = AttenuationLengthVector->
                                         Value(thePhotonMomentum);
           }
           else {
//             G4cout << "No Absorption length specified" << G4endl;
           }
        } 
        else {
//           G4cout << "No Absorption length specified" << G4endl;
        }

        return AttenuationLength;
}