Geant4 Beginners Course @ CERN

Contribution List

1. Introduction

John Apostolakis (CERN)

22/01/2019, 09:00

• General introduction to the course
• Basics of particle transport Monte Carlo
• Global structure of Geant4
• Run,event, track, step, trajectory, etc.
• User classes

2. User Documents and Examples

Gunter Folger (CERN)

22/01/2019, 10:45

• Installation Guide
• Application & Toolkit developers manuals
• Physics reference manual
• Basic examples in Geant4 distribution
• Extended and advanced examples in Geant4 distribution
• GitHub, LXR source code browser
• Reporting problems/requirements, HyperNews

3. User Interface - I

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

22/01/2019, 11:25

• Syntax of UI command
• Interactive mode / batch mode
• G4UIExecutive class

4. Visualization - I

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

22/01/2019, 11:45

• Introduction to Visualization
• Quick Looks at Visualization Drivers
• Basic Visualization Commands

6. Scoring - I

John Apostolakis (CERN)

22/01/2019, 12:05

• Sensitive detectors & Hits
• Basic scoring commands

5. User Actions, Hits and Digits

Witold Pokorski (CERN)

22/01/2019, 12:25

• Mandatory user actions
• Optional user actions
• Sensitive detectors
• Hit/digits collections

7. Multithreading - I

John Apostolakis (CERN)

22/01/2019, 14:00

• Introduction to multithreading
• UI commands for multithreading

8. Hands-on - I

John Apostolakis (CERN), Witold Pokorski (CERN)

22/01/2019, 14:20

• Guide to Geant4 installation
• Execute a few basic examples

9. Material Definition

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

22/01/2019, 14:50

• Defining Materials
• NIST Material database

10. Geometry - I

Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

22/01/2019, 15:35

• G4VUserDetectorConstruction class
• Geometrical shapes: solids
• Logical & Physical volumes
• Placements, Parametrised, Replicated volumes, basics
• Geometry checking tools
• GDML interface
• Magnetic field, basics

11. Hands-on II

Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)

22/01/2019, 17:05

Materials & simple geometry exercise

12. Generators

Witold Pokorski (CERN)

23/01/2019, 09:00

• G4VUserPrimaryGeneratorAction class
• Primary vertex and primary particle
• Built-in primary particle generators
• Interfaces with external generators

14. Particles and processes

Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

23/01/2019, 09:20

• Particles
• Processes
• What happens at a step
• Cuts

13. Physics - I

Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

23/01/2019, 09:40

• Introduction
• G4VUserPhysicsList class
• Modular physics list
• Packaged physics lists
• Choosing appropriate physics List
• Extending a physics list
• Use of generic physics list

15. Hands-on - III

Mihaly Novak (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

23/01/2019, 10:45

Electromagnetic examples

16. Electromagnetic physics - I

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

23/01/2019, 11:25

• Electromagnetic processes
• Energy loss
• Multiple scattering
• Electromagnetic models
• Electromagnetic parameters
• Electromagnetic physics constructors

17. Hands-on - IV

Mihaly Novak (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

23/01/2019, 11:55

Exercise on EM physics

18. Hadronics physics - I

Alberto Ribon (CERN)

23/01/2019, 14:00

• 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
• Exercises

19. Questions & Answers

John Apostolakis (CERN)

23/01/2019, 15:45

Discussion session