Getting Started with Geant4

Contribution List

1. An introduction to Geant4

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

21/01/2020, 09:10

What is Geant4 ?
How is a Geant4 application constructed ?

2. A first Geant4 application

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

21/01/2020, 10:55

Checking the Geant4 installation
Compiling and running a Geant4 application
Interacting with a Geant4 application: first steps

7. Creating and visualising a detector / setup

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

21/01/2020, 14:10

Hands on exercises on
- A first Geant4 geometry
- Visualising the setup

10. Describing a detector

21/01/2020, 15:55

Building a geometry: new features and further exercises
- placing volumes
- first materials

12. Materials in Geant4

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

22/01/2020, 09:10

Creating materials for a setup - overview and exercises

16. Configurable setups

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

22/01/2020, 11:10

How to change the material of a volume via user command

18. Extracting information

22/01/2020, 14:10

Creating user actions to measure observables (energy deposition)

19. How can I intervene ?

22/01/2020, 15:55

What other hooks does Geant4 provide for the user to record, configure/change behaviour ?
A tour of Geant4 user actions, with exercises to demonstrate key aspects

20. More on Geant4 User actions

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

23/01/2020, 09:10

21. Controlling Geant4 applications

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

23/01/2020, 11:10

How to create your own User Command

22. The next steps

23/01/2020, 14:10

A taste of some of the most useful Geant4 features
- Creating a magnetic field
- First steps with multi-threading

23. Questions and Answers

23/01/2020, 15:55

Discussion session

8. Hands-on - I

John Apostolakis (CERN), Witold Pokorski (CERN)

• Guide to Geant4 installation
• Execute a few basic examples

15. Hands-on - III

Mihaly Novak (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Electromagnetic examples

17. Hands-on - IV

Mihaly Novak (CERN), Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

Exercise on EM physics

11. Hands-on II

Gabriele Cosmo (CERN), John Apostolakis (CERN)

Materials & simple geometry exercise

9. Material Definition

Mihaly Novak (CERN)

• Defining Materials
• NIST Material database

14. Particles and processes

Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

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

13. Physics - I

Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

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

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

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