John Apostolakis
(CERN)
11/3/25, 2:00 PM
- Welcome to the course
- Practical aspects - Zoom, Mattermost, Questions, ...
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
11/3/25, 2:10 PM
- An overview of the topics covered in the course - and how they fit
Dr
Gabriele Cosmo
(CERN),
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
11/3/25, 2:25 PM
- Recall: what are solids(shapes), logical & physical volumes
- Introduction to the types of physical volumes: simple (Placements), and 'complex' ones (Replicated and Parameterised)
- Replicas
- Parameterised Volumes
- Divisions volumes
- Touchables and Nested parameterisations
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN)
11/3/25, 3:45 PM
- Particles
- Ions
- Processes
- What happens at a step
- Order of initialisation and execution
- Cuts
- How to prepare custom particle and process
Alberto Ribon
(CERN)
11/3/25, 5:00 PM
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
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
11/4/25, 2:00 PM
- Magnetic field
- Field integration and other types of field
- Steppers & Interpolation
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN)
11/4/25, 2:45 PM
- Energy loss
- Cuts per region
- Models per region
- Atomic de-excitation
- Multiple and single scattering
- Documentation for electromagnetic physics
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
11/4/25, 4:10 PM
- 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
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
11/4/25, 5:30 PM
Magnetic & other fields, EM physics, Multi-threading, User Classes
Alberto Ribon
(CERN),
Anna Zaborowska
(CERN)
11/5/25, 2:00 PM
- Fast parameterised simulation
- G4VFastSimulationModel
- G4FastSimulationManagerProcess
- Use of "Ghost" volumes
- Techniques of fast simulation
Alberto Ribon
(CERN)
11/5/25, 2:40 PM
- 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
Dr
Gabriele Cosmo
(CERN),
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
11/5/25, 4:15 PM
- Geometrical regions
- Geometry optimization
- Parallel geometries
- Moving geometries
- CAD interface
- Tips & Tricks
Makoto Asai
11/5/25, 5:00 PM
- Introduction to Scoring
- Command-based scoring
- Sensitive detector vs. primitive scorer
- Basic structure of detector sensitivity
- Sensitive detectors and hits
Alexander Howard
(Imperial College (GB))
11/6/25, 2:00 PM
Optical photons - generation, propagation and their physics processes
Alberto Ribon
(CERN),
Gunter Folger
11/7/25, 2:00 PM
- Introduction to Physics Lists
- The Geant4 Physics List interface
- Using pre-packaged physics lists
- How to choose a physics list
- Examples
Marc Verderi
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
11/7/25, 3:20 PM
- Introduction
- Early Provided Biasing Options
- Primary Particle Biasing
- Options In Hadronic
- Geometry-based importance biasing
- Weight Window Technique
- User defined biasing
- Reverse Monte-Carlo
- Generic Biasing Scheme
John Apostolakis
(CERN),
Makoto Asai
(Jefferson Lab (USA))
- User limits
- User information classes
- Stack management
John Apostolakis
(CERN),
Makoto Asai
(Jefferson Lab (USA))
- G4UIExecutive
- Definition of custom UI commands
Alberto Ribon
(CERN),
John Apostolakis
(CERN),
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN)
- EM physics
- Hadronic physics
Alberto Ribon
(CERN),
Marc Verderi
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
- Event biasing
- Physics biasing
Anna Zaborowska
(CERN)
- Fast parameterised simulation
- G4VFastSimulationModel
- G4FastSimulationManagerProcess
- Use of "Ghost" volumes
- Techniques of fast simulation
- Demo/Exercises
Witold Pokorski
(CERN)
- G4VUserPrimaryGeneratorAction class
- Primary vertex and primary particle
- Built-in primary particle generators
- Interfaces with external generators
Gabriele Cosmo
(CERN)
- G4VUserDetectorConstruction class
- Geometrical shapes: solids
- Logical & Physical volumes
- Placements, Parametrised, Replicated volumes, basics
- Geometry checking tools
- GDML interface
Mihaly Novak
(CERN),
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN)
Exercise on physics processes & setup
Electromagnetic examples
Alexander Howard
(Imperial College (GB)),
John Apostolakis
(CERN),
Mihaly Novak
(CERN),
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN)
Any Geant4 topic - submit questions on Mattermost
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
- Welcome to the (time-shifted) course
- Practical aspects - Zoom, Mattermost, Questions, ...
John Apostolakis
(CERN),
Makoto Asai
(Jefferson Lab (USA))
- Sensitive detectors & Hits
- Basic scoring commands
- Advanced scoring
Witold Pokorski
(CERN)
- Mandatory user actions
- Optional user actions
- Sensitive detectors
- Hit/digits collections
