Welcome and Practicalities

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 - Welcome to the course - Practical aspects - Zoom, Mattermost, Questions, ...

Overview

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 - An overview of the topics covered in the course - and how they fit

Physics: particles and processes

• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 - Particles - Ions - Processes - What happens at a step - Order of initialisation and execution - Cuts - How to prepare custom particle and process

Electromagnetic physics

• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 - Energy loss - Cuts per region - Models per region - Atomic de-excitation - Multiple and single scattering - Documentation for electromagnetic physics

Hadronic Physics - I

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 Introduction (what is it, why we need it, what are the challenges) Overview of the hadronic physics framework Hadronic cross-sections Hadronic final-state models Hadronic data libraries

Discussion

• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
• John Apostolakis (CERN)
• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 - EM physics - Hadronic physics

Geometry

• Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 - Placements, Replicated and Parameterised volumes, introduction - Divided volumes - Geometrical regions - Touchables and Nested parameterisations - Assembly volumes - Reflected volumes - Geometry optimization - Parallel geometries - Moving geometries - CAD interface

Discussion

• Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)
• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 Geometry

Magnetic Field

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 - Magnetic field - Field integration and other types of field - Steppers & Interpolation

Discussion

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 Magnetic Field

Homework of Day 1 Room: 32/S-C22 Questions from exercises provided on Day 1

Multithreading

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 - Why use multi-threading in Geant4 - What data is shared between threads - User commands to control threading and regular and error output - User code / actions in multi-threaded (MT) mode

Scoring

• Makoto Asai

Room: 32/S-C22 - Introduction to Scoring - Command-based scoring - Sensitive detector vs. primitive scorer - Basic structure of detector sensitivity - Sensitive detectors and hits

Additional User classes

• Makoto Asai

Room: 32/S-C22 - User limits - User information classes - Stack management

Definition of UI commands

• Makoto Asai

Room: 32/S-C22 - G4UIExecutive - Definition of custom UI commands

Discussion on UI, user actions and scoring

• Makoto Asai

Room: 32/S-C22 - UI commands - User actions - Scoring

Questions & Answers Room: 32/S-C22 General discussion on topics raised on Mattermost

Electromagnetic physics II - Optical Photons

• Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

Room: 32/S-C22 Optical photons - generation, propagation and their physics processes

Discussion

• Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

Room: 32/S-C22 Optical Physics

Physics Lists

• Gunter Folger

Room: 32/S-C22 - Introduction to Physics Lists - The Geant4 Physics List interface - Using pre-packaged physics lists - How to choose a physics list - Examples

Hadronics physics II

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 - Pre-compound and de-excitation models - Intra-nuclear cascade models (Bertini, Binary, Liege (INCL)) - String models (Fritiof, Quark Gluon String) - Capture/stopping models - Fission models - Elastic process - Neutron physics - Ion physics

Discussion

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)
• Gunter Folger

Room: 32/S-C22 - Physics lists - Hadronic physics

Event Biasing

• Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Room: 32/S-C22 * Introduction * Early Provided Biasing Options 1. Primary Particle Biasing 2. Options In Hadronic 3. Geometry-based importance biasing 4. Weight Window Technique 5. User defined biasing * Reverse Monte-Carlo * Generic Biasing Scheme

Physics Biasing

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 Physics biasing techniques

Discussion

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)
• Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Room: 32/S-C22 - Event biasing - Physics biasing

Fast Simulation

• Anna Zaborowska (CERN)
• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Room: 32/S-C22 - Fast parameterised simulation - G4VFastSimulationModel - G4FastSimulationManagerProcess - Use of "Ghost" volumes - Techniques of fast simulation

Questions & Answers Room: 32/S-C22 General discussion Answers on topics raised on Mattermost