28th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 25 September 2023 (08:00) to Friday, 29 September 2023 (17:00)
Hokkaido University (Room A)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 Sept 2023
26 Sept 2023
27 Sept 2023
28 Sept 2023
29 Sept 2023
AM
08:00
Registration (until 09:00) ()
09:00
Plenary 1 - Opening addresses / open requirements - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) (until 10:30) (Room A)
09:00 Welcome and opening remarks - Dr Taeko Matsuura (Hokkaido University) Takashi Sasaki (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP))   (Room A)
09:15 Introduction to the Collaboration Meeting - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Room A)
09:30 HEP requirements - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN) Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))   (Room A)
09:45 Medical and bio-science requirements - Susanna Guatelli   (Room A)
10:00 Nuclear physics requirements - Luis Gerardo Sarmiento Pico   (Room A)
10:15 Open and new requirements: HEP intensity and cosmic frontier experiments - Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US))   (Room A)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Plenary 2 - Collaboration tools - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN) Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) (until 12:30) (Room A)
11:00 Geant4 Development Status and Updates - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))   (Room A)
11:25 Geant-Val Status and Updates - Dmitri Konstantinov (University of Virginia (US)) Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN)   (Room A)
11:50 Geant4 Web Presence Status and Updates - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))   (Room A)
12:10 Free Discussion   (Room A)
08:00
Medical tutorial (until 12:10) ()
09:00
Parallel 2A - Susanna Guatelli Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 10:30) (Room A)
09:00 Extended example: analysis/AnaEx03 - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   (Room A)
09:05 Extended example: medical/dna/jetcounter - Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS) Hoang Tran Beata Brzozowska (University of Warsaw)   (Room A)
09:10 Extended example: medical/dna/dnadamage2 - Hoang Tran Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS) Dominguez Kondo Naoki (UCSF)   (Room A)
09:15 Extended example: medical/dna/UHDR - Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS) Hoang Tran   (Room A)
09:20 Extended example: medical/radiobiology - Pablo Cirrone   (Room A)
09:25 Advanced example: hadrontherapy - Pablo Cirrone   (Room A)
09:35 Advanced examples: eFlash_radiotherapy and radioprotection - Giuliana Miluzzo (INFN Catania)   (Room A)
09:45 New space physics examples derived from ATHENA telescope - Ronny Stanzani   (Room A)
09:55 A PoC for a graphical Geant4 Interface and simulation management: potential users and possibilities - Dr Alfonso Mantero (Swhard srl)   (Room A)
10:05 Status of IAEAphsp example - MIGUEL ANTONIO CORTES GIRALDO Not Supplied   (Room A)
10:15 Geant4 teaching/learning opportunities - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))   (Room A)
09:00
Parallel 2B -Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN) (until 10:30) (Hokkaido University)
09:00 QSS: status / update - Lucio Santi (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Rodrigo Daniel Castro (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR)) Rodrigo Castro (ETH Zurich)   (Hokkaido University)
09:20 VecGeom - developments / plans - Juan Gonzalez Caminero Andrei Gheata (CERN)   (Hokkaido University)
09:40 Orange modeller: update - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))   (Hokkaido University)
10:00 Geometry Converter: an update - Guilherme Lima (FermiLab (US))   (Hokkaido University)
10:15 Open Issues - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   (Hokkaido University)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Plenary 4 - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN) (until 12:30) (Room A)
11:00 Update on Geant4 hadronic physics - Alberto Ribon (CERN)   (Room A)
11:25 Introducing "tunes" in hadronic models - Julia Yarba   (Room A)
11:40 Validation of Geant4 physics via calorimeter test-beam set-ups in geant-val - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN)   (Room A)
12:00 Antiproton annihilation in INCL - Demid Zharenov   (Room A)
09:00
Medical tutorial (until 12:30) ()
09:00
Plenary 6 - Francesca Nicolanti Susanna Guatelli (until 10:30) (Room A)
09:00 Update on the Geant4 Documentation - Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))   (Room A)
09:10 Geant4 GUI Interface - Dr Koichi Murakami   (Room A)
09:25 Geant4 Visualisation - John Allison   (Room A)
09:35 Update on the Geant4 Analysis - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   (Room A)
09:45 Update on the Basic and Extended Examples - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   (Room A)
10:00 Update on the Advanced Examples - Susanna Guatelli   (Room A)
10:15 Geant4 learning/teaching tools - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))   (Room A)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Parallel 4A - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)) (until 12:30) (Room A)
11:00 Discussion   (Room A)
11:00
Parallel 4B (until 12:30) (Hokkaido University)
09:00
Medical tutorial (until 12:30) ()
09:00
Parallel 6A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 10:30) (Room A)
09:00 n_TOF flux validation - Dr Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)   (Room A)
09:20 Beam simulation depending on physics lists - Kihyeon Cho   (Room A)
09:00
Parallel 6B - Witold Pokorski (CERN) John Apostolakis (CERN) (until 10:30) (Hokkaido University)
09:00 AdePT progress report - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)   (Hokkaido University)
09:30 Celeritas progress report - Seth Johnson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US))   (Hokkaido University)
10:00 Opticks progress report - Hans-Joachim Wenzel   (Hokkaido University)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Plenary 8 - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN) Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 12:30) (Room A)
11:00 Status of python interfaces to Geant4 - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)   (Room A)
11:20 Julia interface to Geant4 - Pere Mato Vila (CERN) Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick)   (Room A)
11:40 CPU power efficiency in data centers - Dr Koichi Murakami   (Room A)
12:00 On differentiable programming and Geant4 - Mihaly Novak (CERN)   (Room A)
09:00
Plenary 9 - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB)) Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 10:30) (Room A)
09:00 Parallel 1A: New EM developments - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN)   (Room A)
09:13 Parallel 1B: Generic Processes & Materials - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Room A)
09:26 Parallel 2A: Basic, Extended and Advanced Examples - Susanna Guatelli Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   (Room A)
09:39 Parallel 2B: Geometry Working Session - John Apostolakis (CERN)   (Room A)
09:52 Parallel 3A: Hadronic I - Alberto Ribon (CERN)   (Room A)
10:05 Parallel 3B: Computing Performance - Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Gunter Folger   (Room A)
10:18 Parallel 4A: Internal Communication Tools & Procedures; Publication Board Tools - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))   (Room A)
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
Plenary 10 - Alberto Ribon (CERN) Krzysztof Genser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)) (until 12:30) (Room A)
11:00 Parallel 5A: New EM validations - Jay Archer Jay Archer (University of Wollongong)   (Room A)
11:15 Parallel 5B: Visualization - Laurent Garnier   (Room A)
11:30 Parallel 6A: Hadronic II - Alberto Ribon (CERN)   (Room A)
11:45 Parallel 6B: R&D TF - John Apostolakis (CERN)   (Room A)
12:00 Release Schedule - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   (Room A)
12:10 Closing Remarks - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Room A)
12:20 Announcement of 29th Geant4 Collaboration Meeting - Pablo Cirrone   (Room A)
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Parallel 1A - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN) (until 15:30) (Room A)
14:00 X-Ray reflection process - Helmut Burkhardt (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))   (Room A)
14:15 Development of new low energy EM models to describe ionisation in the atmosphere - francesca nicolanti   (Room A)
14:30 Geant4 channeling and Baier-Katkov models and their applications in accelerator physics, particle physics and space science - Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT))   (Room A)
14:45 Latest development of the quantum entangled simulation of the annihilation gammas in Geant4 - Julien Bordes   (Room A)
15:00 Activities and EM developments at LNS Catania - Serena Fattori Pablo Cirrone (Unknown)   (Room A)
15:15 Discussion on EM bug reports and problems - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   (Room A)
14:00
Parallel 1B - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) (until 15:30) (Hokkaido University)
14:00 Updates on Par04 and fast simulation - Dalila Salamani (CERN) Anna Zaborowska (CERN)   (Hokkaido University)
14:30 Progress with using geant-val - Igor Semeniouk (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Hokkaido University)
14:45 Update on command-based scorers (TBC) - Makoto Asai (Jefferson Lab, US)   (Hokkaido University)
15:05 Discussion time   (Hokkaido University)
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Plenary 3 - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN) (until 17:30) (Room A)
16:00 Introduction - Jonas Hahnfeld (CERN) Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Room A)
16:10 Report from Evolution Task Force (includes 15' discussion time) - Anna Zaborowska (CERN)   (Room A)
16:50 Report from Early Career Researchers Committee (ECRC) (includes 15' discussion time) - Lorenzo Pezzotti (CERN)   (Room A)
17:15 General Discussion   (Room A)
17:30 --- Welcome cocktail ---
12:10 --- Medical tutorial break ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
13:30
Medical tutorial (until 17:30) ()
14:00
Parallel 3A - Alberto Ribon (CERN) (until 15:30) (Room A)
14:00 Development and implementation of a new Geant4 QMD model and its validation - Yoshihide Sato   (Room A)
14:20 Graph Neural Networks for fast emulation of nuclear interaction models - Lorenzo Arsini   (Room A)
14:40 Update on tuning of hadronic model parameters - Julia Yarba   (Room A)
14:00
Parallel 3B - Gunter Folger Soon Yung Jun (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 15:30) (Hokkaido University)
14:00 ALICE - Ivana Hrivnacova (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) Sandro Christian Wenzel (CERN)   (Hokkaido University)
14:10 ATLAS - Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US))   (Hokkaido University)
14:20 CMS - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   (Hokkaido University)
14:30 LHCb - Witold Pokorski (CERN)   (Hokkaido University)
14:40 IF/Neutrino - Hans-Joachim Wenzel   (Hokkaido University)
14:50 IBS/Underground Physics - Eunju Jeon (Center for Underground Physics, IBS)   (Hokkaido University)
15:00 Medical Physics - Susanna Guatelli   (Hokkaido University)
15:10 Discussion   (Hokkaido University)
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Plenary 5 -Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN) (until 17:30) (Room A)
16:00 Status of Geometry developments - John Apostolakis (CERN)   (Room A)
16:20 Update on sub-event level parallelism - Makoto Asai (Jefferson Lab, US)   (Room A)
16:40 Status of developments on Fast Simulation - Dalila Salamani (CERN) Anna Zaborowska (CERN)   (Room A)
17:00 Thoughts on parallelisation of initialisation phase and open issues - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   (Room A)
17:20 Discussion   (Room A)
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
12:30 --- Medical tutorial break ---
14:00
Medical tutorial (until 17:30) ()
14:00
Parallel 5A - Jay Archer (University of Wollongong) Susanna Guatelli (until 15:30) (Room A)
14:00 Model of the single Coulomb scattering of e-/e+ based on numerical DCS from DPWA - Mihaly Novak (CERN)   (Room A)
14:15 Bragg Peak validation - MIGUEL ANTONIO CORTES GIRALDO Not Supplied   (Room A)
14:30 Validation of Geant4 fragmentation for incident alpha particles - David Bolst (University of Wollongong)   (Room A)
14:45 Modelling the Response of CLLBC(Ce) and TLYC(Ce) SiPM-Based Radiation Detectors in Mixed Radiation Fields with Geant4 - Jeremy Brown   (Room A)
15:00 Calculation of early DNA damage in astronauts: update and future perspectives - Jay Archer (University of Wollongong)   (Room A)
15:15 Geant4 based Dose Planning Monte Carlo (DPM) - Mihaly Novak (CERN)   (Room A)
14:00
Parallel 5B - Laurent Garnier (until 15:30) (Hokkaido University)
15:30 --- Break ---
16:00
Plenary 7 - Mihaly Novak (CERN) Alexei Sytov (Universita e INFN, Ferrara (IT)) (until 17:30) (Room A)
16:00 Status update on Geant4 EM physics - Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   (Room A)
16:30 The G4-Med project: status update. - Susanna Guatelli   (Room A)
17:00 Geant4-DNA: status update - Hoang Ngoc Tran (CENBG/CRNS)   (Room A)
19:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Technical Forum - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Alberto Ribon (CERN) Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US)) (until 15:30) (Room A)
14:00 Kernel / non-physics (status, patch 11.1.2, expected and at risk features) - Dr Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)   (Room A)
14:20 Hadronic physics (status, patch 11.1.2, expected and at risk features) - Alberto Ribon (CERN)   (Room A)
14:40 EM Physics (status, patch 11.1.2, expected and at risk features) - Mihaly Novak (CERN) Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)   (Room A)
15:00 Non-C++ interfaces to Geant4 - Benjamin Morgan (University of Warwick (GB))   (Room A)
15:10 Geant4.jl - New Interface to Simulation Applications - Pere Mato Vila (CERN)   (Room A)
15:30
Technical Forum - Marc Verderi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Alberto Ribon (CERN) Marilena Bandieramonte (University of Pittsburgh (US)) (until 17:00) (Room A)
15:30 Application of Geant4 for proton therapy research ~ An example case of Hokkaido University - Prof. Taeko Matsuura   (Room A)
16:00 Teaching Geant4 to Beginners - Mr Ken Sutherland   (Room A)
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Steering Board Meeting (until 17:00) (Room A)