Tutorial preliminary program

 

4–8 June 2007, Paris, France

 

Geant4 version 8.3

Last update on 20/12/2007

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Monday (04/06/07)

 

08h00 – 09h00 Registration – Breakfast with croissants will be served on site till 9h00 !

 

09h00 – 09h10 Welcome and tutorial introduction (organizers) (ppt)

 

09h10 – 09h45 Introduction to Monte Carlo simulations (M. Maire) (ppt, pdf)

 

09h45 – 10h00 C++ for Geant4 users (M. Verderi) (ppt)

 

10h00 – 10h45 Kernel 1 (M. Asai) (pdf)

General introduction

Global structure of Geant4

Run, event, track, step, trajectory, etc.

User classes

 

10h45 – 11h15 Break

 

11h15 – 11h30 User Interface 1 (M. Asai) (pdf)

Syntax

Interactive mode / batch mode

G4UIterminal class

 

11h30 – 12h00 Visualization 1 (P. Gueye) (ppt, pdf)

Introduction to Visualization

Quick Looks at Seven Visualization Drivers

Visualization UI commands

 

12h00 – 12h30 User Documents and Examples 1 (S. Incerti) (ppt, pdf)

Installation Guide

Application developers manual

Novice examples in Geant4 distribution

LXR source code browser

HyperNews

 

12h30 – 14h00  Break

 

14h00 – 14h30 Material Definition (G. Santin) (ppt, pdf)

Defining Materials

NIST Material database

 

14h30 – 15h15 Geometry 1 (M. Asai) (pdf)

Introduction

G4VUserDetectorConstruction class

Solid

Logical volume

 

15h15 – 15h45 Physics 1 (M. Verderi) (ppt, pdf)

Introduction

G4VUserPhysicsList class

Modular physics list

Packaged physics lists

 

15h45 – 16h15  Coffee Break 

 

16h15 – 17h30  HANDS ON 1 (S. Incerti) (ppt, pdf)

Execute novice examples to confirm the Geant4 installation and basic Geant4 user interface

 

17h30 – 20h30  Welcome cocktail  at Ministry of Research

 

 


Tuesday (05/06/07)

 

9h00 – 9h15 Highlight of user applications (S. Incerti) (ppt, pdf)

 

9h15 – 10h00 Geometry 2 (M. Asai) (pdf)

Placement volume

Parameterized volume

Replica volume

Nested parametrisation

 

10h00 – 10h30 Visualization 2 (P. Gueye) (ppt, pdf)

Visualization of trajectory

Visualization attributes

 

10h30 – 11h Break

 

11h00 – 11h45 Physics 2 (M. Verderi) (ppt, pdf)

Overview

Processes

Production thresholds

 

11h45 – 12h30 Primary Particle (G. Santin) (ppt1, pdf1) (ppt2, pdf2)

G4VUserPrimaryGeneratorAction class

G4ParticleGun

General particle source

 

12h30 – 14h00  Break

 

13h50 – 14h00 File exchange with VMware (S. Incerti) (ppt, pdf)

 

14h00 – 14h30 Physics 3 (M. Asai) (pdf)

Cuts per region

Decay

Optical

 

14h30 – 14h45 Analysis 1 (P. Gueye) (ppt, pdf)

Introduction to analysis tools

 

14h45 – 15h30 Scoring 1 (M. Asai) (pdf)

Introduction to sensitivity

G4VPrimitiveScorer and related classes

G4VSDFilter

G4Run and G4UserRunAction

 

15h30 – 16h  Coffee Break 

 

16h00 – 17h30  HANDS ON 2 (I. Hrivnacova) (html)

Material and geometry implementation

Visualization

 


Wednesday (06/06/07)

 

09h00 – 09h30 Geometry 3 (I. Hrivnacova) (ppt, pdf, odp)

Geometry checking tools

Touchable

Region

 

09h30 – 10h15 EM Physics 1 (M. Maire, V. Ivantchenko) (pdf)

EM standard overview

Multiple scattering

 

10h15 – 10h45 EM Physics 2 (S. Incerti) (ppt, pdf)

Low–E EM overview

 

10h45 – 11h15 Break

 

11h15 – 12h00 Hadronic Physics 1 (A. Heikkinen : pdf) (G. Folger : ppt, pdf)

Overview

Elastic process

Precompound/de–exitation models

Cascade models

Parameterized models

 

12h00 – 12h30 Hadronic Physics 2 (G. Folger)  (ppt, pdf)

Neutron physics

Ion physics

 

12h30 – 14h00 Break

 

14h00 – 14h30 User Interface 2 (M. Asai) (pdf)

Define user commands

 

14h30 – 14h50 User Documents and Examples 2 (J. Apostolakis) (ppt, pdf)

Toolkit developers manual

Physics reference manual

Extended and advanced examples in Geant4 distribution

 

14h50 – 15h30 Scoring 2 (M. Asai) (pdf)

Sensitive detector

Hits

 

15h30 – 16h00 Break

 

16h00 – 17h30  HANDS ON 3 (M. Maire, V. Ivantchenko, G. Folger, A. Heikkinen) (ppt, pdf)

Physics

 

 


Thursday (07/06/07)

 

09h00 – 09h30 Geometry 4 (I. Hrivnacova) (ppt, pdf, odp)

Division

Reflected volume, Assembly volume

Geometry optimization

 

09h30 – 10h00 Geometry 5 (I. Hrivnacova) (ppt, pdf, odp)

Navigator's view of the geometry

Best practice in creating a geometry (things to avoid, recipes to use)

 

10h00 – 10h45 External fields (J. Apostolakis) (ppt, pdf)

Magnetic field

Describing EM fields to the kernel

Tailoring an application for accuracy/performance

 

10h45 – 11h10 Break

 

11h15 – 12h00 TestEm series (M. Maire) (ppt, pdf)

 

11h15 – 12h00 Hadronic Physics 3 (G. Folger) (ppt, pdf)

String models

CHIPS / electro–nuclear models

Capture / fission / isotope–production models

Radioactive decay

 

12h00 – 12h30 Physics lists (P. Gueye : ppt, pdf) (G. Folger : ppt, pdf)

 

12h30 – 14h00 Break

 

14h00 – 14h45 Analysis 2 (P. Gueye) (ppt, pdf)

Data analysis
ntuples

 

Files for AIDA installation available here

 

14h45 – 15h15 Event Biasing (M. Verderi) (ppt, pdf)

Overview

Geometrical biasing

Physics biasing

Bremsstrahlung splitting

 

15h15 – 15h45 Kernel 2 (M. Asai) (pdf)

User limits

User information classes

Stack management

 

15h45 – 16h15 Break

 

16h15 – 17h30 HANDS ON 4 (M. Verderi) (html)

Define scorers & histograms

Alternate physics lists

Output results

 

19h00 – 20h00 Bateau mouche tour at quai Saint Michel

 


Friday (08/06/07)

 

09h00 – 09h30 Kernel 3 (M. Asai) (pdf)

Parallel geometry

Moving objects

Shower parameterization

 

9h30 – 10h15 Cluster implementation and grid (random seed, data merging, Grille) (L. Maigne)  (pdf)

 

10h15 – 10h30 JLab Physics and Geant4 (P. Gueye) (ppt, pdf)

 

10h30 – 11h00  Coffee Break 

 

11h00 – 11h20 GATE (S. Jan, CEA/DSV Orsay) (ppt, pdf)

 

11h20 – 11h40 ThiS (L. Guigues, CREATIS Lyon ) (ppt, pdf)

 

11h40 – 12h00 FASTRAD (T. Beutier or P. Pourrouquet ) (ppt, pdf)

 

12h00 – 12h20 Geant4 Radiation Analysis for Space GRAS (G. Santin) (ppt, pdf)

 

12h30 – 14h00  Break

 

14h00 – 14h20 PLANETOCOSMICS (L. Desorgher) (ppt, pdf)

 

14h20 – 15h45  User Forum + idea box

 

15h45 – 16h00  Coffee Break 

 

16h00 – 16h30 Development Plans and discussion about a “Geant4 France” collaboration

 

16h30 Adjourn