Welcome and Practicalities

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - Welcome to the course - Practical aspects - Zoom, Mattermost, Questions, ...

Overview

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - An overview of the topics covered in the course - and how they fit

Geometry - Part 1

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

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - 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

Physics: particles and processes

• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - Particles - Ions - Processes - What happens at a step - Order of initialisation and execution - Cuts - How to prepare custom particle and process

Hadronic Physics - I

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 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

Definition of UI commands

• Makoto Asai

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - G4UIExecutive - Definition of custom UI commands

Magnetic Field

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - Magnetic field - Field integration and other types of field - Steppers & Interpolation

Electromagnetic physics

• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - Energy loss - Cuts per region - Models per region - Atomic de-excitation - Multiple and single scattering - Documentation for electromagnetic physics

Questions and/or Homework from Day 1 Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 Questions from exercises / topics of Day 1

Multithreading - Part 1

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - 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

Additional User classes

• Makoto Asai

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - User limits - User information classes - Stack management

Discussion

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 Magnetic & other fields, EM physics, Multi-threading, User Classes

Fast Simulation

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

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - Fast parameterised simulation - G4VFastSimulationModel - G4FastSimulationManagerProcess - Use of "Ghost" volumes - Techniques of fast simulation

Hadronics physics II

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - 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

Hadronic Physics II (continued) Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11

Geometry - Part 2

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

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - Geometrical regions - Geometry optimization - Parallel geometries - Moving geometries - CAD interface - Tips & Tricks

Scoring

• Makoto Asai

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - Introduction to Scoring - Command-based scoring - Sensitive detector vs. primitive scorer - Basic structure of detector sensitivity - Sensitive detectors and hits

Discussion on UI, user actions and scoring

• Makoto Asai (Jefferson Lab (USA))

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - UI commands - User actions - Scoring

Electromagnetic physics II - Optical Photons

• Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 Optical photons - generation, propagation and their physics processes

Discussion Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 Your (further questions) about - EM Physics II (photons) - User Action classes

Homework / questions from Day 3 Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11

Multi-threading - Part 2

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 Topics: • The challenge of MT : thread safety • Reading input file in multithreaded mode • Initialising ‘optimization’ voxels in parallel

Questions & Answers - your topics Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11

Physics Lists

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)
• Gunter Folger

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 - Introduction to Physics Lists - The Geant4 Physics List interface - Using pre-packaged physics lists - How to choose a physics list - Examples

Physics Biasing

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 Physics biasing techniques

Event Biasing

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

Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 * 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

Homework / questions from Day 4 Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11

Questions & Answers Room: 593/R-010 - Salle 11 General discussion Answers on topics raised on Mattermost