Introduction

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

- General introduction to the course

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

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

- Magnetic field - Field integration and other types of field - Steppers & Interpolation

Physics

• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)

- 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)

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

Discussion

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)
• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
• John Apostolakis (CERN)

- Magnetic field - EM physics - Hadronic physics

Definition of UI commands

• Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

- G4UIExecutive - Definition of custom UI commands

Scoring

• Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

- Sensitive detectors & Hits - Basic scoring commands - Advanced scoring

Additional User classes

• Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

- User limits - User information classes - Stack management

Discussion

• Makoto Asai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

- UI commands - User actions - Scoring

Multithreading

• John Apostolakis (CERN)

- Thread safety - Reading input file in multithreaded mode

Questions & Answers General discussion on topics raised on Mattermost

Electromagnetic physics

• Mihaly Novak (CERN)

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

Electromagnetic physics II - Optical Photons

• Alexander Howard (Imperial College (GB))

Optical photons - generation, propagation and their physics processes

Discussion

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

- Electromagnetic physics - Optical photon generation and optical processes

Geometry II

• Gabriele Cosmo (CERN)

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

Discussion

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

- Geometry - Navigation & Transportation

Physics Lists

• Gunter Folger (CERN)

- Introduction to Physics Lists - The Geant4 Physics List interface - Using pre-packaged physics lists - How to choose a physics list - Examples

Hadronics physics II

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

- 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

Discussion

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)
• Gunter Folger (CERN)

- Physics lists - Hadronic physics

Event Biasing

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

- Overview - Geometrical biasing - Bremsstrahlung splitting

Physics Biasing

• Alberto Ribon (CERN)

Physics biasing techniques

Discussion

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

- Event biasing - Physics biasing

Fast Simulation

• Anna Zaborowska (CERN)

- Fast parameterised simulation - G4VFastSimulationModel - G4FastSimulationManagerProcess - Use of "Ghost" volumes - Techniques of fast simulation

Questions & Answers General discussion Answers on topics raised on Mattermost