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12th Geant4 Collaboration Workshop

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The Birchcliffe Centre

The Birchcliffe Centre

Birchliffe Road HEBDEN BRIDGE West Yorkshire HX7 7BT UK
Description

A workshop for Geant4 Collaboration members. User participation is invited for the first 4 days, 13th-16th September. This will include user presentations, Geant4 status reports, discussions, a technical forum meeting, tutorials and Sunday excursion. Also, the venue is available for special interest group meetings on the day immediately before the workshop - contact workshop support for further information.

Members of the public are invited to attend the first day of user presentations, 13th September, as day delegates, but are asked to register in advance. This is expected to be of interest to local astronomy and scientific societies.

Hebden Bridge Web Site
Hebden House Conference Centre
Manchester School of Physics and Astronomy
Science and Technology Funding Council
Support
Participants
  • Aatos Heikkinen
  • Alberto Ribon
  • Alexander Howard
  • Alexandre Lindote
  • Andrea Di Simone
  • Andreas Elsaesser
  • Andreas Schaelicke
  • Ben Morgan
  • Clรกudio Frederico Pascoal da Silva
  • David Shipley
  • Dennis Wright
  • Dimitris VISVIKIS
  • Fan Lei
  • Franca Cassol Brunner
  • Francesco Romano
  • Francisco Neves
  • Fred Currell
  • Frederick Jones
  • Gabriele Cosmo
  • Giovanni Santin
  • Giuseppe A. Pablo Cirrone
  • Gunter Folger
  • Guofu Cao
  • Hajime Yoshida
  • Henrique Araujo
  • Huaimin Liu
  • Ian McLaren
  • Irene Buvat
  • Ivana Hrivnacova
  • Jan De Beenhouwer
  • Jane Tinslay
  • John Allison
  • John Apostolakis
  • Joseph Perl
  • Josรฉ Manuel Quesada
  • Katsuya Amako
  • Koichi Murakami
  • Luciano Pandola
  • Lydia Maigne
  • Makoto Asai
  • Marc Verderi
  • Markus Horn
  • Matthew Robinson
  • Michael Hodgson
  • Michael Bauer
  • Michel Maire
  • Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo
  • Mikhail Kosov
  • Neil Pierce
  • Nicolas Karakatsanis
  • Nicolas Spalinger
  • Nigel WATSON
  • Niklas Rehfeld
  • Patrice Descourt
  • Pavol Strizenec
  • Pedro Arce
  • Pete Truscott
  • Peter Gumplinger
  • Petteri Nieminen
  • Pierre Pourrouquet
  • Pierre-Franรงois PEYRARD
  • Ricardo Pinho
  • Stephan Scholl
  • Stephen McMahon
  • Steven Staelens
  • Sunanda Banerjee
  • Takashi Sasaki
  • Tatiana Nikitina
  • Tatsumi Koi
  • Tomohiro Yamashita
  • Toshiyuki Toshito
  • V. Daniel Elvira
  • Vladimir Grichine
  • Vladimir Ivantchenko
  • Weihua Zhang
  • Thursday 13 September
    • 08:00
      Registration

      (8:00 - 8:45)

    • Plenary Session 1
      • 1
        Welcome to the 12th GEANT4 Workshop at Hebden Bridge
        Speaker: John Allison
      • 2
        Issues for the Workshop
        Speaker: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)
        Slides
      • 3
        New developments in Geant4 hadronic physics
        Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)
        Slides
      • 4
        Event biasing in Geant4
        Speaker: Alexander Howard (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 5
        Geant4 in medical physics
        Speaker: Joseph Perl (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 6
        Geant4 validation with test beam data from LHC calorimetry
        Speaker: Pavol Strizenec
        Slides
    • 11:00
      Coffee Break
    • Plenary Session 2 - Users Session
      • 7
        CALICE report
        Speaker: Dr Nigel K. Watson (Univercity of Birmingham)
        Slides
      • 8
        GEANT4 and the Underground Physics Community
        Speaker: Luciano Pandola (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 9
        User Presentation - Space Physics
        Speaker: Dr Giovanni Santin (ESA)
        Slides
        Space Users' Community
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Parallel Session 1 (a) - Low Background Experiments
      • 10
        Muon-Induced Neutrons Measured with ZEPLIN-II Veto
        Speaker: Alexandre LINDOTE (LIP-Coimbra, Portugal)
        Slides
      • 11
        EDELWEISS-II Muon-Veto Simulations with GEANT4
        Speaker: Markus HORN (Institut fรผr Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany)
        Slides
      • 12
        Muon Propagation in Rock with GEANT4, FLUKA and MUSIC
        Speaker: Francisco IGUAZ (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
      • 13
        Muon-Induced Neutron Simulations with GEANT4
        Speaker: Stephan SCHOLL (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
        Slides
    • Parallel Session 2 (a) - Medical / Gate Applications
      • 14
        Validation of dose deposited for 125l brachytherapy sources (low-energy photons)
        Speaker: Lydia Maigne (LPC, Clermont Ferrand, France)
        Slides
      • 15
        Deployment of GATE/G4 simulations on a grid architecture
        Speaker: Lydia Maigne (LPC, Clermont Ferrand, France)
        Slides
      • 16
        Simulating CT imaging with GATE
        Speaker: Franca Cassol Brunner (CPPM Marseille, France)
        Slides
      • 17
        Overview of VRTs in GATE and Geant4
        Slides
      • 18
        Discussion
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • Parallel Session 1 (b) - Low Background Experiments
      • 19
        Low-Energy Neutron Propagation in GEANT4 and MCNPX
        Speaker: Matthew ROBINSON (University of Sheffield, UK)
        Slides
      • 20
        New Geant4 Models for Muon Nuclear Interactions
        Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
        Slides
      • 21
        MaGe: a MC Framework for Gerda and Majorana Experiments
        Speaker: Luciano PANDOLA (INFN, Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy)
        Slides
      • 22
        Simulation of the COBRA Double-Beta Decay Experiment
        Speaker: Ben MORGAN (University of Warwick, UK)
        Slides
      • 23
        Discussion & Summary
    • Parallel Session 2 (b) - Medical / Gate Applications
      • 24
        The Italian activity of the LNS-INFN Group
        Speakers: Dr Francesco Romano (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud - INFN / Catania University), Pablo Cirrone (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 25
        Geant4 simulation of HIBMC facility using DICOM
        Speaker: Tomohiro Yamashita (Kobe University, Japan)
        Slides
      • 26
        GAMOS status and plans
        Speaker: Mr Pedro Arce (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))
        Slides
      • 27
        Recent developments in Geant4 related activities at CENBG
        Speaker: Sรฉbastien Incerti (CENBG, IN2P3 - CNRS- Bordeaux 1 University)
        Slides
      • 28
        Discussion & Summary (incl Geant4/GATE meeting summary (TBC))
  • Friday 14 September
    • Geometry Challenges
      • 29
        Faster Navigation for Regular Voxel Geometries
        Speaker: Pedro ARCE
        Slides
      • 30
        Trade-offs and speed-ups - discussion
        Speaker: Panel
        Slides
    • Tools using GEANT4
      • 31
        Space : Common challenges, issues arising from integration G4
        Speaker: Fan Lei (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 32
        Discussion on commonalities & needs of engineering-type applications based on Geant4
        Speaker: Panel
    • Enabling experienced users to aid other users
    • 11:00
      Coffee Break
    • CPU Performance
      • 33
        New Benchmarks for HEP Geant4 CPU performance
        Speaker: Tatiana Nikitina (CERN)
        Slides
      • 34
        Atlas experience with Geant4 performance
        Speaker: Andrea Di Simone (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))
        Slides
      • 35
        Performance and Numerical Stability
        Speaker: Dr Daniel Elvira (FNAL)
        Slides
      • 36
        Recommendations for improving application performance
        Speaker: Alexander Howard (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 37
        Discussion on CPU Performance
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Parallel Session 1 - Low-Energy & Optical
      • 38
        New Model for Simulation of Light Reflection in GEANT4
        Speaker: Claudio SILVA (LIP-Coimbra, Portugal)
        Slides
      • 39
        Simulation of Low-Energy Nuclear Recoils Using GEANT4
        Speaker: Ricardo PINHO (LIP-Coimbra, Portugal)
        Slides
      • 40
        BESIII Detector Simulation with Geant4
        The BESIII is a new detector which will take data in 2008 on the upgraded electron-poisitron collider (BEPCII) at 2-5 GeV. The development of the BESIII MC program based on Geant4 is outlined. The status and proformance of the simulation are reported. Some problems and user requirements are mentioned.
        Speaker: Dr Huaimin Liu (IHEP, Beijing)
        Slides
      • 41
        Discussion
    • Parallel Session 2- Aero/Space Applications
      • 42
        FASTRAD
        Speaker: Pierre Pourrouquet (TRAD)
        Slides
      • 43
        MARSREM
        Speaker: Dr Pete Truscott (Qinetiq)
        Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • Physics Validation and Shower Shapes
      • 44
        LHC Shower Update
        Speaker: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)
        Slides
      • 45
        New CHIPS Implementations of High Energy Diffraction and Coherent Charge Exchange
        Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
        Slides
      • 46
        New CMS Measurements of Transverse and Longitudinal Shower Shapes
        Speaker: Sunanda Banerjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR))
        Slides
      • 47
        Geant4 Hadronic Validation efforts at FNAL
        Speaker: Sunanda Banerjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR))
        Slides
      • 48
        Validation Tests
        Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)
        Slides
      • 49
        Comparison of G4 Processes with p (40 MeV) + A Data
        Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
        Slides
    • Tutorials
      • 50
        Introduction - kernel structure, user classes
        Slides
      • 51
        Material description
      • 52
        Geometry - solid, logical volume, physical volume
      • 53
        Primary particle
      • 54
        EM field
    • 19:00
      Workshop Dinner
  • Saturday 15 September
    • Saturday Plenary 1 - News from Geant4
      • 55
        Electromagnetic physics
        Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)
        Slides
      • 56
        Hadronic Physics
        Speaker: Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University)
        Slides
        • a) New CHIPS Implementation
          Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
          Slides
        • b) Hadronic Cross Sections
          Speaker: Vladimir Grichine (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))
          Slides
      • 57
        Physics Lists : Use Cases and guidelines
        Speaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)
        Slides
      • 58
        Error Propagation in Geant4 9.0
        Speaker: Mr Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
        Slides
    • 11:00
      Coffee Break
    • Technical Forum (Plenary)
      slides
      • 59
        Technical Forum
        Slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Optional Excursion
    • Tutorial
      • 60
        Overview of Processes and Physics List
        Slides
      • 61
        EM physics
        Slides
      • 62
        Hadronic physics - 1
        Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • Tutorial
    • 19:00
      PUB
  • Sunday 16 September
    • Excursion am

      See separate pdf's: timetable and walking route back to Hebden Bridge.

      • 68
        Bus leaves Moyles at 09:15
      • 69
        Arrive Oxenhope
      • 70
        Take train
      • 71
        Journey on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
      • 72
        Visit railway museums
      • 73
        Ride with Thomas the Tank Engine
    • 13:00
      Lunch at the Old White Lion, Haworth
    • Excursion pm
      • 74
        Or Shop in Haworth for souvenirs
      • 75
        Or Travel back to Oxenhope by train
      • 76
        Or Walk back to Hebden Bridge over the moors
      • 77
        Visit Bronte Parsonage Museum
      • 16:00
        Bus Picks up at Haworth
      • 16:30
        Bus picks up at Oxenhope
      • 17:00
        Back in Hebden Bridge
  • Monday 17 September
    • Geant4 Collaboration Meeting - Plenary 1 Monday
      • 78
        Key issues from Review 2007
        Speaker: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)
        Slides
      • 79
        Discussion of issues
      • 80
        Geant4 Workshop/Collaboration Meeting Goals
        Slides
    • 11:00
      Coffee Break
    • Hadronic Physics: Validation and Development
      • 81
        Report from the Precompound Workshop
        Speaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)
      • 82
        Implementation of CHIPS in Geant4
        Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
        Slides
      • 83
        Neutron Benchmarks, including TARC
        Speaker: Alexander Howard (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 84
        Collaboration-wide Hadronics Discussion (Validation, Shower Shapes, Physics Lists, etc.)
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Hadronic 1 - Cross Sections and Long Standing Issues
      • 85
        CHIPS Cross Sections for Nuclear-Nuclear Interactions
        Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
        Slides
      • 86
        CMS Multiplicity Problem
        Speaker: Dr Dennis Wright (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 87
        Bertini Cascade Problems and Fixes
        Speaker: Dr Dennis Wright (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 88
        Implementation of Isotopic Cross Sections
        Speaker: Dr Dennis Wright (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 89
        LEP Problems
        Speaker: Fred Jones (TRIUMF Tri-University Meson Facilit (TRIUMF))
        Slides
    • Parallel Navigation - Working session
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • Hadronic 2 - Precompound and Evaporation Models
      Convener: Dr Gunter Folger (CERN)
      • 90
        G4PreCompound Improvements
        Speaker: Prof. Jose Manuel Quesada (University of Seville)
        Slides
      • 91
        Simulation of Precompound/Evaporation in CHIPS Interfaces
        Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
        Slides
      • 92
        Precompound/De-excitation Interfaces
        Speaker: Alexander Howard (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 93
        Discussion and Planning
    • Interfaces : Working Session
      • 94
        Geant4 Web Application - its design and use
        Speaker: Prof. Hajime YOSHIDA (Naruto University of Education)
        Slides
      • 95
        Python Interface, Geant4 Education and Geant4 on Web
        Speaker: Dr Koichi MURAKAMI (KEK)
        Slides
      • 96
        Documentation on the Web
        Speaker: Prof. Katsuya AMAKO (KEK)
    • Hadronic WG meeting (for WG members)
  • Tuesday 18 September
    • EM Physics
      • 97
        Status of EM Standard
        Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)
        Slides
      • 98
        Fluctuations of energy loss
        Speaker: Laszlo Urban (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 99
        Multiple Scattering
        Speaker: Laszlo Urban (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 100
        Fano Cavity
        Speaker: Michel Maire (LAPP)
        Slides
    • Kernel

      Includes: Particles, Geometry, Biasing/Scoring

    • 11:00
      Coffee Break
    • Visualisation and Interfaces
      • 104
        Overall Vis Status Summary
        Speaker: Joseph Perl
        Slides
      • 105
        Qt
        Speaker: Joseph Perl
        Slides
      • 106
        Smooth Trajectories, Event Keeping, Picking in OGLX
        Speaker: John Allison
        Slides
      • 107
        Improvements in Intercoms, Interfaces, Geant4Py examples, and Web Application
        Speaker: Koichi Murakami (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))
        Slides
    • Computing Performance - Discussion
      slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Biasing
      • 108
        Geometrical Biasing Progress report
        Speaker: Alexander Howard (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 109
        Progress report on Scoring
        Speakers: Makoto Asai (SLAC), Tsukasa ASO (TNCMT)
        Slides
      • 110
        New design of physics list for event biasing
        Speaker: Dr Jane Tinslay (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 111
        Discussion
    • Electromagnetic topics
      • 112
        EM Polarisation library - status, progress, plans
        Speaker: Dr Andreas Schaelicke (DESY Zeuthen)
        Slides
      • 113
        Comparison of Geant4 results to EGSnrc and measured data in large field electron dose distributions
        Speaker: Joseph Perl (Unknown)
        Slides
      • 114
        Carbon ion depth dose profile in HIBMC facility
        Speaker: Toshiyuki Toshito (KEK)
        Slides
      • 115
        Geant4 energy loss of proton, electron and magnetic monopole
        Speaker: Mr Mykhailo Vladymyrov (Moscow Lebedev inst)
        Slides
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • Hadronic 3 - New Hadronic Models
      • 116
        Liege Cascade/ABLA Progress Report
        Speaker: Mr Aatos Heikkinen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
        Slides
      • 117
        CHIPS R&D for Hadronic Applications
        Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
        Slides
      • 118
        Heavy Ion Progress Report
        Speaker: Dr Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 119
        Diffuse Optical Model for Hadron-Nucleus Elastic Scattering
        Speaker: Vladimir Grichine (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))
        Slides
      • 120
        RPG Model
        Speaker: Dr Dennis Wright (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 121
        Discussion
    • Tracking to zero energy in an electric field
    • Configuration Management Second Room

      Second Room

      The Birchcliffe Centre

      Birchliffe Road HEBDEN BRIDGE West Yorkshire HX7 7BT UK
      • 122
        Binary Install and Configuration Tools
        Speaker: Dr Ben Morgan (University of Warwick)
        Slides
      • 123
        Discussion
  • Wednesday 19 September
    • Geometrical Safety and EM physics processes
      • 124
        How to use the Geometrical Safety
        Speaker: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)
      • 125
        How Geometrical Safety is used by EM processes
        Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)
        Slides
      • 126
        What happens in reality
        Speaker: Alexander Howard (Unknown)
        Slides
    • System Integration Testing: status, tools and migration Second Room

      Second Room

      The Birchcliffe Centre

      Birchliffe Road HEBDEN BRIDGE West Yorkshire HX7 7BT UK
    • CPU Benchmarks Second Room

      Second Room

      The Birchcliffe Centre

      Birchliffe Road HEBDEN BRIDGE West Yorkshire HX7 7BT UK

      Organizing existing CPU benchmarks, for wider use Automation
      Coverage and additional benchmarks

      • 127
        Status of Benchmarks in System Testing
        Speaker: Ian McLaren (CERN)
        Slides
      • 128
        Benchmarks for Propagation in Field
        Speaker: Tatiana Nikitina (Universite de Franche-Comte)
        Slides
      • 129
        System Benchmarks
        Speaker: Dr Alberto Ribon (CERN)
        Slides
      • 130
        Policy for Benchmarks - Discussion
        Definition of policy for benchmarks: - Benchmarks to be considered & versioning on CVS - Frequency for running benchmarks, automation & comparisons - Selection of system/platforms, CPU load, system upgrades & network exposure - Update of reference measurements
    • Electromagnetic topics
      • 131
        Single Coulomb scattering process
        Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)
        Slides
      • 132
        Diffuse elastic scattering model for charged particles
        Speaker: Vladimir Grichine (P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics (FIAN))
        Slides
      • 133
        CHIPS approximation of proton-nuclear Coulomb scattering
        Speaker: Dr Mikhail Kosov (CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
        Slides
    • 11:00
      Coffee Break
    • Reports from Parallel Sessions - 1
      • 134
        Summary from EM parallel Sessions
        Speaker: Dr Andreas Schaelicke (DESY Zeuthen)
        Slides
      • 135
        Summary from Interfaces session
        Speaker: Prof. Hajime YOSHIDA (NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION)
        Slides
      • 136
        Summary of GATE/Medical parallel sessions
        Speaker: Joseph Perl
        Slides
      • 137
        Summary from Configuration session
        Speaker: Ben MORGAN (University of Warwick, UK)
        Slides
      • 138
        Summary from Hadronic Physics Sessions
        Speakers: Dennis Herbert Wright (Stanford University), Dr Dennis Wright (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 139
        Summary from 2nd Hadronic Physics Session
        Speaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)
        Slides
      • 140
        Summary from Aero/Space Applications
        Speaker: Fan Lei
        Slides
      • 141
        Summary from Hadronic Physics Session on Cross Sections and Long Standing Issues
        Speaker: Mr Aatos Heikkinen (Helsinki Institute of Physics)
        Slides
      • 142
        Summary from System Testing parallel session
        Speaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)
        Slides
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Reports from Parallel Sessions - 2
      • 143
        Summary from Biasing and Scoring parallel session
        Speaker: Makoto Asai (SLAC)
        Slides
      • 144
        Summary from CPU Benchmarks parallel session
        Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
        Slides
      • 145
        Summary from New Hadronic Models parallel session
        Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)
        Slides
      • 146
        Summary from Geometrical Safety parallel session
        Speaker: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)
        Slides
    • The next Geant4 release(s)
      slides
    • Workshop Closeout
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • Steering Board meeting

      (Steering Board members and invitees)

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