Introduction

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - General introduction to the course - Basics of particle transport Monte Carlo - Global structure of Geant4 - Run,event, track, step, trajectory, etc. - User classes

User Documents and Examples

• Gunter Folger (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - 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

User Interface - I

• Mihaly Novak (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - Syntax of UI command - Interactive mode / batch mode - G4UIExecutive class

Visualization - I

• Mihaly Novak (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - Introduction to Visualization - Quick Looks at Visualization Drivers - Basic Visualization Commands

Scoring - I

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - Sensitive detectors & Hits - Basic scoring commands

User Actions, Hits and Digits

• Witold Pokorski (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - Mandatory user actions - Optional user actions - Sensitive detectors - Hit/digits collections

Multithreading - I

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - Introduction to multithreading - UI commands for multithreading

Hands-on - I

• Witold Pokorski (CERN)
• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - Guide to Geant4 installation - Execute a few basic examples

Material Definition

• Mihaly Novak (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - Defining Materials - NIST Material database

Geometry - I

• Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - G4VUserDetectorConstruction class - Geometrical shapes: solids - Logical & Physical volumes - Placements, Parametrised, Replicated volumes, basics - Geometry checking tools - GDML interface - Magnetic field, basics

Hands-on II

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

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre Materials & simple geometry exercise

Generators

• Witold Pokorski (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - G4VUserPrimaryGeneratorAction class - Primary vertex and primary particle - Built-in primary particle generators - Interfaces with external generators

Particles and processes

• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - Particles - Processes - What happens at a step - Cuts

Physics - I

• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - Introduction - G4VUserPhysicsList class - Modular physics list - Packaged physics lists - Choosing appropriate physics List - Extending a physics list - Use of generic physics list

Hands-on - III

• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
• Mihaly Novak (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre Electromagnetic examples

Electromagnetic physics - I

• Mihaly Novak (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - Electromagnetic processes - Energy loss - Multiple scattering - Electromagnetic models - Electromagnetic parameters - Electromagnetic physics constructors

Hands-on - IV

• Mihaly Novak (CERN)
• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre Exercise on EM physics

Hadronics physics - I

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre - 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

Questions & Answers

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

Room: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre Discussion session