SLAC Geant4 Tutorial 2007 - Agenda

Monday (05/14/07)

13:30 - 14:00 Registration

14:00 - 14:15 Welcome (R.Mount)

14:15 - 14:30 Tutorial Introduction (J.Perl) (ppt, pdf)

Emergency Information

Networking

Tutorial structure

Lecturer introduction

14:30 - 15:30 Kernel I (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

General introduction

Global structure of Geant4

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

User classes

15:30 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 16:20 User Interface I (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

Syntax

Interactive mode / batch mode

G4UIterminal class

16:20 - 16:50 Visualization I (J.Perl) (ppt, pdf)

Introduction to Visualization

Quick Looks at Seven Visualization Drivers

Basic Visualization Commands

16:50 - 18:00 Hands-on I (J.Tinslay)

Complete Geant4 installation if you have not already done so

Execute a few novice examples to confirm the installation

Linux

Mac

Windows

OpenGL

HepRApp

DAWN

Troubleshooting: Installation and Configuration Hypernews

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Tuesday (05/15/07)

09:00 - 09:30 User Documents and Examples I (D.Wright) (ppt, pdf)

Installation Guide

Application developers manual

Novice examples in Geant4 distribution

LXR source code browser

HyperNews

09:30 - 09:50 Material Definition (T.Koi) (ppt, pdf)

Defining Materials

NIST Material database

09:50 - 10:30 Geometry I (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

Introduction

G4VUserDetectorConstruction class

Solid

Logical volume

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:45 Physics I (D.Wright) (ppt, pdf)

Introduction

G4VUserPhysicsList class

Modular physics list

Packaged physics lists

11:45 - 12:30 Geometry II (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

Placement volume

Parameterized volume

Replica volume

12:30 - 14:00 Break

14:00 - 14:45 Physics II (D.Wright) (ppt, pdf)

Overview

Processes

Production thresholds

14:45 - 15:10 Visualization II (J.Perl) (ppt, pdf)

Basic Visualization Commands

15:10 - 15:30 Primary Particle (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

G4VUserPrimaryGeneratorAction class

G4ParticleGun

General particle source

15:30 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 18:00 Hands-on II (T.Koi)

Material and geometry implementation

Visualization of geometry

Shoot primaries

Minimal (EM) physics list

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Wednesday (05/16/07)

NO TUTORIAL IN THE MORNING

14:00 - 14:30 Physics III (D.Wright) (ppt, pdf)

Cuts per region

Decay

Optical

14:30 - 14:55 Visualization III (J.Perl) (ppt, pdf)

Advanced Visualization

14:55 - 15:25 Scoring I (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

Introduction to sensitivity

G4VPrimitiveScorer and related classes

G4VSDFilter

G4Run and G4UserRunAction

15:25 - 15:30 Analysis (J.Perl) (ppt, pdf)

Analyze scored results

15:30 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 18:00 Hands-on III (T.Koi)

Define scorers

Output results

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Thursday (05/17/07)

09:00 - 09:30 EM Physics I (T.Koi) (ppt, pdf)

EM standard overview

Multiple scattering

09:30 - 10:00 EM Physics II (D.Wright) (ppt, pdf)

Low-E EM overview

10:00 - 10:30 Geometry III (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

Division

Geometry checking tools

Touchable

Region

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 11:50 Hadronic Physics I (D.Wright) (ppt, pdf)

Overview

Elastic process

Precompound/de-exitation models

Cascade models

Parameterized models

11:50 - 12:30 Hadronic Physics II (T.Koi) (ppt, pdf)

Neutron physics

Ion physics

Radioactive decay

12:30 - 14:00 Break

14:00 - 14:30 User Interface II (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

Define user commands

14:30 - 14:50 User Documents and Examples II (D.Wright) (ppt, pdf)

Toolkit developers manual

Physics reference manual

Extended and advanced examples in Geant4 distribution

14:50 - 15:30 Scoring II (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

Sensitive detector

Hits

15:30 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 18:00 Hands-on IV (T.Koi)

Storing hits

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Friday (05/18/07)

09:00 - 09:45 Geometry IV (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

Magnetic field

Nested parameterization

Reflected volume, Assembly volume

Geometry optimization

09:45 - 10:30 Event Biasing (J.Tinslay) (ppt, pdf)

Overview

Geometrical biasing

Physics biasing

Bremsstrahlung splitting

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Hands-on V (J.Tinslay)

Alternate physics lists

Event biasing by Bremsstrahlung splitting

12:30 - 14:00 Break

14:00 - 14:30 How to Upgrade Your Geant4 Release (J.Perl) (ppt, pdf)

About the new Geant4 release, 8.3

Major versus minor releases

What to look for in the release notes

How to upgrade

14:30 - 15:00 Kernel II (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

User limits

User information classes

Stack management

15:00 - 15:30 Hadronic Physics III (D.Wright) (ppt, pdf)

String models

CHIPS / electro-nuclear models

Capture / fission / isotope-production models

15:30 - 16:00 Break

16:00 - 16:30 Kernel III (M.Asai) (ppt, pdf)

Parallel geometry

Moving objects

Shower parameterization

16:30 - 16:50 Q/A and comments

16:50 - 17:00 Development Plans for Future Releases and Concluding Remarks (M.Asai)

17:00 Adjourn