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package cern.clhep;
/**
* High Energy Physics coherent Physical Constants.
* This class is a Java port of the <a href="http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/lhc++/clhep/manual/RefGuide/Units/PhysicalConstants_h.html">C++ version</a> found in <a href="http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/lhc++/clhep">CLHEP 1.4.0</a>, which in turn has been provided by Geant4 (a simulation toolkit for HEP).
* <p>
* For aliasing see {@link #physicalConstants}.
*
* @author wolfgang.hoschek@cern.ch
* @version 1.0, 09/24/99
*/
public class PhysicalConstants extends Object {
/**
* Little trick to allow for "aliasing", that is, renaming this class.
* Normally you would write
* <pre>
* PhysicalConstants.twopi;
* PhysicalConstants.c_light;
* PhysicalConstants.h_Planck;
* </pre>
* Since this class has only static methods, but no instance methods
* you can also shorten the name "PhysicalConstants" to a name that better suits you, for example "P".
* <pre>
* PhysicalConstants P = PhysicalConstants.physicalConstants; // kind of "alias"
* P.twopi;
* P.c_light;
* P.h_Planck;
* </pre>
*/
public static final PhysicalConstants physicalConstants = new PhysicalConstants();
//
//
//
public static final double pi = Math.PI; //3.14159265358979323846;
public static final double twopi = 2*pi;
public static final double halfpi = pi/2;
public static final double pi2 = pi*pi;
//
//
//
public static final double Avogadro = 6.0221367e+23/Units.mole;
//
// c = 299.792458 mm/ns
// c^2 = 898.7404 (mm/ns)^2
//
public static final double c_light = 2.99792458e+8 * Units.m/Units.s;
public static final double c_squared = c_light * c_light;
//
// h = 4.13566e-12 MeV*ns
// hbar = 6.58212e-13 MeV*ns
// hbarc = 197.32705e-12 MeV*mm
//
public static final double h_Planck = 6.6260755e-34 * Units.joule*Units.s;
public static final double hbar_Planck = h_Planck/twopi;
public static final double hbarc = hbar_Planck * c_light;
public static final double hbarc_squared = hbarc * hbarc;
//
//
//
public static final double electron_charge = - Units.eplus; // see SystemOfUnits.h
public static final double e_squared = Units.eplus * Units.eplus;
//
// amu_c2 - atomic equivalent mass unit
// amu - atomic mass unit
//
public static final double electron_mass_c2 = 0.51099906 * Units.MeV;
public static final double proton_mass_c2 = 938.27231 * Units.MeV;
public static final double neutron_mass_c2 = 939.56563 * Units.MeV;
public static final double amu_c2 = 931.49432 * Units.MeV;
public static final double amu = amu_c2/c_squared;
//
// permeability of free space mu0 = 2.01334e-16 Mev*(ns*eplus)^2/mm
// permittivity of free space epsil0 = 5.52636e+10 eplus^2/(MeV*mm)
//
public static final double mu0 = 4*pi*1.e-7 * Units.henry/Units.m;
public static final double epsilon0 = 1./(c_squared*mu0);
//
// electromagnetic coupling = 1.43996e-12 MeV*mm/(eplus^2)
//
public static final double elm_coupling = e_squared/(4*pi*epsilon0);
public static final double fine_structure_const = elm_coupling/hbarc;
public static final double classic_electr_radius = elm_coupling/electron_mass_c2;
public static final double electron_Compton_length = hbarc/electron_mass_c2;
public static final double Bohr_radius = electron_Compton_length/fine_structure_const;
public static final double alpha_rcl2 = fine_structure_const
*classic_electr_radius
*classic_electr_radius;
public static final double twopi_mc2_rcl2 = twopi*electron_mass_c2
*classic_electr_radius
*classic_electr_radius;
//
//
//
public static final double k_Boltzmann = 8.617385e-11 * Units.MeV/Units.kelvin;
//
//
//
public static final double STP_Temperature = 273.15*Units.kelvin;
public static final double STP_Pressure = 1.*Units.atmosphere;
public static final double kGasThreshold = 10.*Units.mg/Units.cm3;
//
//
//
public static final double universe_mean_density = 1.e-25*Units.g/Units.cm3;
/**
* Makes this class non instantiable, but still let's others inherit from it.
*/
protected PhysicalConstants() {}
}