First steps with Geant4

Contribution List

1. Introduction

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

19/05/2025, 14:00

• scope and goal of this course
• a short introduction to Geant4
• introduction of some important Geant4 concepts such as run, event, track, etc.

2. Preliminaries

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

19/05/2025, 15:50

• introduction of our work environment (i.e. the virtual machine installation,
  demystification of Geant4 install and CMake configuration, etc.)
• recapitulation of some object oriented concept of C++ crucial for the course
  (such as interface and their usage)

3. Detector Description

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

20/05/2025, 14:00

• introduction of the G4VUserDetectorConstruction interface
• introduction to the Geant4 geometry description
• introduction to the Geant4 material description

4. Implementation of the Detector-Construction of our application

20/05/2025, 15:50

We will develop the main of our application.
Then we will start to implement its mandatory components:
- first the DetectorConstruction, i.e. the detector geometry and material description

5. Completing the Detector-Construction implementation

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

21/05/2025, 14:00

6. Primary Particle Generation

21/05/2025, 15:50

Topics:
- a (very basic) look behind multi-threaded Geant4
- introduction of the G4VUserPrimaryGeneratorAction and usage
- introduction of G4VUserActionInitialization interface
- implementation of the primary generator of our application

7. Complete the primary generator implementation

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

22/05/2025, 14:00

8. Introduction of some more Geant4 user actions

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

22/05/2025, 15:50

We will revisit the key Geant4 concepts (run, event, step) related to actions

Introduce of the Actions and the related Geant4 interfaces
- Stepping Action (G4UserSteppingAction),
- Event Action (G4UserEventAction),
- and RunAction G4UserRunAction,

Implement the remaining user actions of our application.

9. Using UI commands to add flexibility to our application

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

23/05/2025, 14:00

• introduction to Geant4 UI commands
• implementing UI commands to allow us to change of the target material, thickness at run-time

10. Recap

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

23/05/2025, 15:50

Use the application we developed
- Compare the results with experimental data

Summary of the course and outlook