From 983ebc4f96d2951c604a8d98abc5e780f7eeb873 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hristov <hristov@f7af4fe6-9843-0410-8265-dc069ae4e863>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:20:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Protection in case of irrealistic estimation of the expected
 energy loss (M.Ivanov)

---
 TOF/AliTOFtrack.cxx | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/TOF/AliTOFtrack.cxx b/TOF/AliTOFtrack.cxx
index 3e9cb09a6cf..e935cea956b 100644
--- a/TOF/AliTOFtrack.cxx
+++ b/TOF/AliTOFtrack.cxx
@@ -250,6 +250,13 @@ Int_t AliTOFtrack::PropagateTo(Double_t xk,Double_t x0,Double_t rho)
   if((5940*beta2/(1-beta2+1e-10) - beta2) < 0){return 0;}
 
   Double_t dE=0.153e-3/beta2*(log(5940*beta2/(1-beta2+1e-10)) - beta2)*d*rho;
+  //
+  // suspicious part - think about it ?
+  Double_t kinE =  TMath::Sqrt(p2);
+  if (dE>0.8*kinE) dE = 0.8*kinE;  //      
+  if (dE<0)        dE = 0.0;       // not valid region for Bethe bloch 
+  //
+  //
   if (x1 < x2) dE=-dE;
   cc=fC;
   fC*=(1.- sqrt(p2+GetMass()*GetMass())/p2*dE);
-- 
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