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Getting Started with Geant4

25–31 May 2021
CERN
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Geant4 Training 2021

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  1. 24. Welcome - Introduction
    John Apostolakis (CERN)
    25/05/2021, 09:00

    How the course will proceed

    Technical aspects -- using Zoom breakout rooms to interact with lecturers during hands-on session

    Interacting via Mattermost for questions 'online'

    Exercise follow up

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  2. 25. What is Geant4 ?
    John Apostolakis (CERN)
    25/05/2021, 09:10

    The toolkit / library 'nature' of Geant4 and how differ from radiation transport tools ?

    Is there is no Geant4 'executable' ? If not, why ?
    Variety of existing Geant4-based application / tools.
    How do you use Geant4 ?

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  3. 27. Hands-on: First look at virtual machine and one Geant4 application
    Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)
    25/05/2021, 09:30

    Goals:
    - Familiarise with program main, contents of directories, compiling and running an executable

    How to get the exercise material

    You can follow these instructions from the gitlab site of the exercises below "How to get the exercises"

    Copied below also (in case of gitlab unavailability)

    First create a directory for all our work (examples & exercises) :
    Create a new...

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  4. 26. Describing your detector - Concepts
    Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
    25/05/2021, 10:50
  5. 29. Hands on: Adding volumes to the world
    Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)
    25/05/2021, 11:20
  6. 30. Questions & Answers plus Homework
    25/05/2021, 12:20
  7. 31. Review of homework
    Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)
    26/05/2021, 09:00
    • Follow-up concepts from homework - extended concepts
    • Reset set-up of hands-on
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  8. 32. Visualisation - lecture & hands-on
    John Apostolakis (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN)
    26/05/2021, 09:30
    • Visualise your detector geometry

    Brief overview and hands-on exercises

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  9. 33. Materials - lecture & hands-on
    Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
    26/05/2021, 10:45
    • Definition of materials and association to detector volumes
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  10. 34. Generation of primaries - lecture & hands-on
    Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
    26/05/2021, 11:45
  11. 36. Review of homework - questions & answers
    John Apostolakis (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
    27/05/2021, 09:00
  12. 38. Extracting information - part 1: User Actions
    Mihaly Novak (CERN)
    27/05/2021, 09:30
  13. 35. Hands on
    John Apostolakis (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
    27/05/2021, 10:00
    • Finding information in G4Step, G4Track
    • Creating Sensitive Detector ProcessHits() method that extract energy deposit
    • Alternative method: Built-in scorer
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  14. 39. Hands on (continued)
    John Apostolakis (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN)
    27/05/2021, 11:00

    • Using actions to collect total energy and track length

    • Alternative: using sensitive detector to collect total energy

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  15. 37. Extracting information: Part 2 - scoring and hits
    John Apostolakis (CERN)
    27/05/2021, 12:15

    Overview of sensitive detectors and built-in scorers.

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  16. 40. Review of homework - questions & answers
    John Apostolakis (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN)
    28/05/2021, 09:00
  17. 46. Messengers - how to use them and to create one
    Mihaly Novak (CERN)
    28/05/2021, 09:30

    Lecture (overview)

    Hands-on exercise

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  18. 42. Electromagnetic physics
    Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
    28/05/2021, 11:45

    Lecture (overview)

    Hands-on exercise

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  19. 45. Review of homework
    Alberto Ribon (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
    31/05/2021, 09:00
  20. 43. Hadronic physics
    Alberto Ribon (CERN)
    31/05/2021, 09:20
  21. 41. Defining / using magnetic field
    John Apostolakis (CERN)
    31/05/2021, 10:10
  22. 53. Hands-on: magnetic field
    John Apostolakis (CERN)
    31/05/2021, 10:55
  23. 47. Multi-threading
    John Apostolakis (CERN)
    31/05/2021, 11:40
  24. 48. Followup topics - questions & answers
    Alberto Ribon (CERN), Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
    31/05/2021, 12:30

    Extension of existing concepts

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  25. 50. Hands on - EM physics
    Alberto Ribon (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
    • Simple magnetic field
    • EM physics exercises
    • Hadronic: choose hadronic physics list + compare profile of pion shower to electron shower
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  26. 51. Hands on - Hadronics
    Alberto Ribon (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
    • Hadronic: choose hadronic physics list + compare profile of pion shower to electron shower
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  27. 44. Hands on - Magnetic Field
    John Apostolakis (CERN)

    Creating and registering a simple magnetic field.

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  28. 49. Hands on - messengers
    John Apostolakis (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN)
    • Use of messengers
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  29. 52. Hands on - multithreading
    John Apostolakis (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN)
    • Running in multi-threading mode
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  30. 28. Hands-on: Examine parts of a first example
    Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)