27th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting
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We are glad to hold this in person Collaboration Meeting after two virtual sessions ! We are confident this will foster constructive discussions.
This meeting is hence taking place in Rennes. The meeting format is pretty standard and the agenda content will be evolved during the coming weeks. This page itself will provide news on the meeting organization.
This is a closed Geant4 meeting, reserved to Geant4 members only or to people receiving an explicit invitation by the Collaboration.

One important aspect is VISA: members or invited speakers who need a VISA to travel to Europe/France may need an invitation letter. For this please contact the local organizing committee at clo-g4-2022~at~services.cnrs.fr (replacing the "~at~" by "@", this is to avoid too many spams...).
For remote participants (collaboration meeting of Technical Forum), please find the Zoom links on the following page:
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Plenary 1 - Opening addresses / open requirements¶ TA Beaulieu
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Conveners: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Anna Zaborowska (CERN)- 1
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Opening remarks¶Speaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Open and new requirements - LHC and other HEP Energy Frontier experiments¶Speaker: Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Open and new requirements - Medical and bio science¶Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
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Open and new requirements - Nuclear Physics experiments¶Speaker: Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico (Lund University (SE))
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Open and new requirements - Space science and engineering¶Speaker: Giovanni Santin (ESA)
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Open and new requirements - HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiment¶Speaker: Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Conveners: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)), Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
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Git/CMake/C++ Updates¶Speaker: Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))
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Update on geant-val¶Speaker: Dmitri Konstantinov (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (RU))
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Migration of Geant4 Website¶Speakers: Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)), Anna Zaborowska (CERN), Dmitri Konstantinov (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (RU))
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Discussion¶
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Lunch break TA Beaulieu
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Conveners: Andrei Gheata (CERN), Witold Pokorski (CERN)
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Convener: Alberto Ribon (CERN)
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This plenary session is of new type and is meant for an open discussion on collaboration evolution. Issues considered are sustainability in terms of manpower, respective roles of "members" versus "contributors", etc.
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Summary of the results of the survey
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Discussions¶
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Welcome cocktail Origines
Origines
2 rue de l'hotel dieu, 35000 Rennes
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Conveners: Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS), Susanna Guatelli
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New Geant4 model of channeling in crystals and its potential applications¶Speaker: Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))
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Development of a physics list for radiation protection studies in space¶Speaker: Jay Archer (University of Wollongong)
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Development of Geant4-DNA for atmosphere simulations¶Speakers: Carlo Mancini Terracciano, francesca nicolanti
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Convener: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Conveners: Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN), Mihaly Novak (CERN)
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Conveners: Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Susanna Guatelli
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Update on the advanced examples¶Speaker: Susanna Guatelli
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Fast drawing in the “ICRP HumanPhantoms"¶Speaker: John Allison
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An advanced example for 3D imaging of microscopic samples by proton tomography¶Speakers: Claire Michelet, Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3), Zhuxin Li
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Update on the advanced example Radioprotection¶Speakers: Francesco Romano, Jacopo Magini
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Convener: Alberto Ribon (CERN)
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Speaker: Julia Yarba
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Alpha particles produced by protons in B-11 (Geant4)¶ TP ETI (next building) access code 6865A6
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Recent developments in hadronics: integral approach, neutron general process, etc.¶ TP ETI (next building) access code 6865A6
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Zoom link of the meeting:
https://cern.zoom.us/j/63818129602?pwd=TXFOZ2wvZWJhVW91by9zZFFTek0rUT09Conveners: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)), Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))- 44
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Status of 11.1 developments: non-physics part¶Speaker: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
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Status of 11.1 developments: Electromagnetic physics part¶Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
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Update of the optical light transport in Geant4 to model optical coating¶Speaker: Laurie CAPPELLUGOLA
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Radioactive decay simulation of superheavy nuclei in Geant4¶Speaker: Rikel Chakma
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Pyg4ometry : python library for creating, processing, converting and editing Geant4 geometry¶Speakers: Prof. Stewart Takashi Boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London), Stewart boogert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
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Using photogrammetry for automatic digital models generation¶Speakers: Andrea Dotti, Andrea Dotti (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))
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Conveners: Alberto Ribon (CERN), Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
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Excursion
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Conveners: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Navigation Engines for GPUs¶
Surface model navigation 'engines' for GPU
The idea of the session is to give others a first overview of the two approaches (5-10 min each), then contentrate on challenges, potential reuse / commonalities / ...
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- Key objects, overview of challenges for intersection, location and safety methodsDiscussion
- Strengths and challenges
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Symplectic integration - GSoC project update¶
Overview of symplectic integration
The Boris method and its implementation in Geant4
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Integration of QSS in Geant4 - an update¶
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BVH Navigation - integration in Geant4¶
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Computation of cubic volume and surface area¶Speaker: Evgueni Tcherniaev (University of Pittsburgh (US))
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Review of open tickets¶
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Parallel 4B: Discussion related to hadronic physics - part I¶ TA Beaulieu
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Convener: Alberto Ribon (CERN)-
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Replacing ParticleHP cross sections with user's ones¶Speaker: Pedro Arce (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))
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Recent developments in thermal neutrons¶Speaker: Loic Jerome Thulliez
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Variance reduction using Adaptive Multilevel Splitting (AMS)¶Speaker: Eric Dumonteil (DAPNIA)
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Plenary 7 - Kernel, GUI/Vis, analysis, examples updates II¶ TA Beaulieu
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Conveners: Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS), Susanna Guatelli
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A novel extended example for the generation and tracking of inverse Compton scattering photons¶Speakers: Gianfranco Paterno, Gianfranco Paternò
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2022 update of the microelec module¶Speaker: Christophe Inguimbert (ONERA)
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Final implementation of RPWBA model in Geant4-DNA for proton transport up to 300 MeV¶Speaker: Miguel Antonio Cortes Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla (ES))
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Conveners: Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), Gunter Folger, Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Computing Performance Results and Issues: CMS¶ TA beaulieu, access code: 69A639
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Computing Performance Results and Issues: ATLAS¶ TA beaulieu, access code: 69A639
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Computing Performance Task - summary, status and future updates¶ TA beaulieu, access code: 69A639
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Speaker: Mr Harshil Jani
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Plenary 8 - Internal Seminars & Generation Transfer Knowledge¶ TA Beaulieu
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Geant4 has a wide set of skills and knowledge, but these are often not shared beyond the working groups. The Collaboration and its members may benefit for more knowledge sharing as this can be a seed for new ideas and developments. This could be done through a format like internal seminars, where some external could also be invited to present new trends relevant for the simulation. But this could also be used for the critical aspect of knowledge transfert from the "old" to the "new" generation. This session is to debate about such internal seminar approach, and to propose a first seminar.
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Introduction to discussion¶Speaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Discusion¶Speakers: Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN), Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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An Introduction to GPUs and their Applicability to MC¶Speaker: Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)
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Banquet Crêperie « la rozelle » 14 rue du Penhoët, 35000 Rennes
Crêperie « la rozelle » 14 rue du Penhoët, 35000 Rennes
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Convener: Laurent Garnier
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Parallel 6B: Discussion related to hadronic physics - part II (TBC)¶ TA Beaulieu
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Convener: Alberto Ribon (CERN)-
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Calling Pythia8 generator to handle an interaction during a Geant4 simulation¶Speakers: Einar Alfred Elen, Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico (Lund University (SE))
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Update on the extension of the INCL model for antiprotons¶Speaker: Demid Zharenov
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Fluka-Cern hadronic event generator interface¶Speaker: Gabrielle Hugo (CERN)
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Plenary 9 - Summary of parallel sessions¶ TA Beaulieu
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Summary of Parallel 1A - R&D Task Force activities¶Speaker: Witold Pokorski (CERN)
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Summary of Parallel 2A/5A - New developments for EM physics¶Speakers: Luciano Pandola (INFN-LNS), Susanna Guatelli
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Summary of Parallel 2B: Biasing and Fast Simulation update¶Speaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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Summary of Parallel 3A - Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples¶Speakers: Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Susanna Guatelli
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Summary of Parallel 4A: Geometry & alternative transport¶Speaker: John Apostolakis (CERN)
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Plenary 10 - Summary of parallel sessions / closing session¶ TA Beaulieu
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Conveners: Anna Zaborowska (CERN), Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN)-
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Summary of Parallel 5B: Computing performance profiling and monitoring¶Speaker: Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))
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Summary of Parallel sessions: Status of hadronic models and validation¶Speaker: Alberto Ribon (CERN)
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Closing remarks¶Speaker: Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
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