Geant4 Advanced Course @ CERN

Contribution List

1. Introduction

John Apostolakis (CERN), Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

26/03/2019, 09:00

• General introduction to the course

20. Geometry II

Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

26/03/2019, 09:10

• Placements, Parameterised and Replicated volumes, introduction
• Divided volumes
• Geometrical regions
• Nested parameterisations
• Assembly volumes
• Reflected volumes
• Geometry optimization
• CAD interface
• Parallel geometries
• Touchables

21. Magnetic Field

John Apostolakis (CERN)

26/03/2019, 10:30

• Magnetic field
• Field integration and other types of field

22. Physics II

Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

26/03/2019, 11:00

• Particles
• Ions
• Processes
• What happens at a step
• Order of initialisation and execution
• Cuts
• How to prepare custom particle and process

8. Hands-on - I

John Apostolakis (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

26/03/2019, 11:40

• Exercises on magnetic field and EM

23. Electromagnetic physics II

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

26/03/2019, 14:00

• Energy loss
• Cuts per region
• Models per region
• Atomic de-excitation
• Multiple and single scattering
• Documentation for electromagnetic physics

11. Hands-on - II

Mihaly Novak (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

26/03/2019, 14:40

Exercise on physics processes & setup
Electromagnetic examples

24. Electromagnetic physics III - Optical Photons

Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

26/03/2019, 15:25

Optical photons - generation, propagation and their physics processes

25. Hands-on - III

Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB)), Mihaly Novak (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

26/03/2019, 16:05

Exercises and examples focused on
- Electromagnetic physics
- Optical photon generation and optical processes

13. Physics Lists

Gunter Folger (CERN)

27/03/2019, 09:00

• Extending a physics list
• Use of generic physics list
• Physics list builders
• User extendible physics list

18. Hadronics physics II

Alberto Ribon (CERN)

27/03/2019, 09:40

• 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

15. Event biasing

Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

27/03/2019, 11:00

• Overview
• Geometrical biasing
• Bremsstrahlung splitting

27. Physics Biasing

Alberto Ribon (CERN), Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

27/03/2019, 11:25

Physics biasing techniques

28. Definition of UI commands

Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

27/03/2019, 12:05

• Definition of custom UI commands

16. Additional User classes

Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

27/03/2019, 14:00

• User limits
• User information classes
• Stack management

26. Fast Simulation

Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

27/03/2019, 14:30

• Fast parameterised simulation
• G4VFastSimulationModel
• G4FastSimulationManagerProcess
• Use of "Ghost" volumes
• Techniques of fast simulation
• Demo/Exercises

17. Multithreading II

Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

27/03/2019, 15:45

• Thread safety
• Reading input file in multithreaded mode

19. Questions & Answers

Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN), Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

27/03/2019, 16:05

Discussion session

12. Generators

Witold Pokorski (CERN)

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

10. Geometry - I

Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

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

9. Material Definition

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

• Defining Materials
• NIST Material database

7. Multithreading - I

John Apostolakis (CERN)

• Introduction to multithreading
• UI commands for multithreading

14. Particles and processes

Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

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

6. Scoring - I

John Apostolakis (CERN)

• Sensitive detectors & Hits
• Basic scoring commands

5. User Actions, Hits and Digits

Witold Pokorski (CERN)

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

2. User Documents and Examples

Gunter Folger (CERN)

• 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)

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

4. Visualization - I

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

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