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Call: GET_CLUSTER


xyz

The coordinates at which the cluster is produced. The cluster location is returned in Cartesian coordinates also if the cell has been entered in polar coordinates. The INTERNAL_TO_POLAR procedure can be used for the conversion.

These arguments should not be used if DONE has been set to True or OK to False.

This 3 arguments should be a simple global variables, not formulas or constants. The global variables may already exist before the procedure is called, in which case their contents will be lost, but they may also be an variables that have sofar not been used.

The coordinates are returned as Numbers with unit cm.


ecls

The energy deposited in the cluster.

This argument should not be used if DONE has been set to True or OK to False.

These energies only have a meaning when using Heed to generate clusters. If the mean energy to create an electron-ion pair has been entered in the gas section, then for certain track types the energy will be set to npair * Epair.

This argument should be a simple global variable, not a formula or a constant. The global variable may already exist before the procedure is called, in which case its contents will be lost, but it may also be an variable that has sofar not been used.

The energy is expressed in MeV.


npair

The number of electrons (and ions) present in the cluster.

This argument should not be used if DONE has been set to True or OK to False.

This argument should be a simple global variable, not a formula or a constant. The global variable may already exist before the procedure is called, in which case its contents will be lost, but it may also be an variable that has sofar not been used.


done

This variable is set to True if the present call didn't result in a cluster, further calls will not result in clusters either.

Reasons for this to occur are

Note the difference between this parameter and OK, the latter is set to False if an error has been detected generating the clusters, for instance because of buffer overflow in Heed.

DONE is set to False if a cluster has been generated successfully.

This argument should be a simple global variable, not a formula or a constant. The global variable may already exist before the procedure is called, in which case its contents will be lost, but it may also be an variable that has sofar not been used.


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