library: libEG #include "TDatabasePDG.h"

# TDatabasePDG

class description - source file - inheritance tree (.ps)

## class TDatabasePDG : public TNamed

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`TObject`

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`TNamed`

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`TDatabasePDG`

        public:

                                TDatabasePDG()
                                TDatabasePDG(const TDatabasePDG&)
                        virtual ~TDatabasePDG()
          virtual TParticlePDG* AddAntiParticle(const char* Name, Int_t PdgCode)
          virtual TParticlePDG* AddParticle(const char* Name, const char* Title, Double_t Mass, Bool_t Stable, Double_t DecayWidth, Double_t Charge, const char* ParticleClass, Int_t PdgCode, Int_t Anti = -1, Int_t TrackingCode = 0)
                   virtual void Browse(TBrowser* b)
                 static TClass* Class()
                  virtual Int_t ConvertGeant3ToPdg(Int_t Geant3Number)
                  virtual Int_t ConvertIsajetToPdg(Int_t isaNumber)
                  TParticlePDG* GetParticle(Int_t pdgCode) const
                  TParticlePDG* GetParticle(const char* name) const
             TParticleClassPDG* GetParticleClass(const char* name)
           static TDatabasePDG* Instance()
                virtual TClass* IsA() const
                 virtual Bool_t IsFolder() const
                  TDatabasePDG& operator=(const TDatabasePDG&)
               const THashList* ParticleList() const
                   virtual void Print(Option_t* opt) const
                   virtual void ReadPDGTable(const char* filename)
                   virtual void ShowMembers(TMemberInspector& insp, char* parent)
                   virtual void Streamer(TBuffer& b)
                           void StreamerNVirtual(TBuffer& b)
                  virtual Int_t WritePDGTable(const char* filename)

### Data Members

        protected:

          static TDatabasePDG* fgInstance      protect against multiple instances
                    THashList* fParticleList   list of PDG particles
                    TObjArray* fListOfClasses  list of classes (leptons etc.)

## Class Description

      Particle database manager class

      This manager creates a list of particles which by default is
      initialised from with the constants used by PYTHIA6 (plus some
      other particles added). See definition and the format of the default
      particle list in $ROOTSYS/etc/pdg_table.txt

      there are 2 ways of redefining the name of the file containing the
      particle properties

      1. one can define the name in .rootrc file:

      Root.DatabasePDG: $(HOME)/my_pdg_table.txt

      2. one can use TDatabasePDG::ReadPDGTable method explicitly:

         - TDatabasePDG *pdg = new TDatabasePDG();
         - pdg->ReadPDGtable(filename)

      See TParticlePDG for the description of a static particle properties.
      See TParticle    for the description of a dynamic particle particle.

TDatabasePDG(): TNamed("PDGDB","The PDG particle data base")

     Create PDG database. Initialization of the DB has to be done via explicit
     call to ReadDataBasePDG (also done by GetParticle methods)

~TDatabasePDG()

     Cleanup the PDG database.

TDatabasePDG* Instance()

    static function

TParticlePDG* AddParticle(const char *name, const char *title, Double_t mass, Bool_t stable, Double_t width, Double_t charge, const char* ParticleClass, Int_t PDGcode, Int_t Anti, Int_t TrackingCode)

      Particle definition normal constructor. If the particle is set to be
      stable, the decay width parameter does have no meaning and can be set to
      any value. The parameters granularity, LowerCutOff and HighCutOff are
      used for the construction of the mean free path look up tables. The
      granularity will be the number of logwise energy points for which the
      mean free path will be calculated.

TParticlePDG* AddAntiParticle(const char* Name, Int_t PdgCode)

     assuming particle has already been defined

TParticlePDG* GetParticle(const char *name) const

      Get a pointer to the particle object according to the name given

TParticlePDG* GetParticle(Int_t PDGcode) const

      Get a pointer to the particle object according to the MC code number

void Print(Option_t *option) const

     Print contents of PDG database.

Int_t ConvertGeant3ToPdg(Int_t Geant3number)

     Converts Geant3 particle codes to PDG convention. (Geant4 uses
     PDG convention already)
     Source: BaBar User Guide, Neil I. Geddes,

/* see Conversion table */

     with some fixes by PB, marked with (PB) below. Checked against
     PDG listings from 2000.

     Paul Balm, Nov 19, 2001

Int_t ConvertIsajetToPdg(Int_t isaNumber)

      Converts the ISAJET Particle number into the PDG MC number

void ReadPDGTable(const char *FileName)

     read list of particles from a file
     if the particle list does not exist, it is created, otherwise
     particles are added to the existing list
     See $ROOTSYS/etc/pdg_table.txt to see the file format

void Browse(TBrowser* b)

Int_t WritePDGTable(const char * /*filename*/)

     write contents of the particle DB into a file

### Inline Functions

            TParticleClassPDG* GetParticleClass(const char* name)
              const THashList* ParticleList() const
                        Bool_t IsFolder() const
                       TClass* Class()
                       TClass* IsA() const
                          void ShowMembers(TMemberInspector& insp, char* parent)
                          void Streamer(TBuffer& b)
                          void StreamerNVirtual(TBuffer& b)
                  TDatabasePDG TDatabasePDG(const TDatabasePDG&)
                 TDatabasePDG& operator=(const TDatabasePDG&)

Author: Pasha Murat 12/02/99
Last update: root/eg:$Name: $:$Id: TDatabasePDG.cxx,v 1.20 2002/12/02 18:50:02 rdm Exp $