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Quick Intro to Geant4

Quick Intro to Geant4. Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS) G4NAMU meeting @ AAPM Minneapolis 22 July 2007. What is Geant4?. An All Particle Monte-Carlo Free Flexible Object-Oriented (C++) You get the source Successor of GEANT3, world-standard for HEP detector simulation.

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Quick Intro to Geant4

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  1. Quick Intro to Geant4 Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS) G4NAMU meeting @ AAPM Minneapolis 22 July 2007

  2. What is Geant4? • An All Particle Monte-Carlo • Free • Flexible • Object-Oriented (C++) • You get the source • Successor of GEANT3,world-standard for HEP detector simulation. • Used well beyond HEP: heavy ion physics, CP violation physics, cosmic ray physics, astrophysics, space science, shielding and medical applications. Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  3. Flexibility of Geant4 • In order to meet wide variety of requirements from various application fields, a large degree of functionality and flexibility are provided. • Geant4 has many types of geometrical descriptions to describe most complicated and realistic geometries • CSG, BREP and Boolean solids • Placement, replica, divided, parameterized, reflected and grouped • XML interface • Everything is open to the user • Choice of physics processes/models • Choice of GUI, Visualization, persistency, histogramming technologies Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  4. Physics in Geant4 • It is rather unrealistic to develop a uniform physics model to cover wide variety of particles and/or wide energy range. • Much wider coverage of physics comes from mixture of theory-driven, parameterized, and empirical formulae. Thanks to polymorphism mechanism, both cross-sections and models (final state generation) can be combined in arbitrary manners into one particular process. • Geant4 offers • EM processes • Hadronic processes • Polarization • Photon/lepton-hadron processes • Optical photon processes • Decay processes • Shower parameterization • Event biasing techniques • And you can plug-in more Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  5. Geant4 – Its history • Dec ’94 - Project start • Apr ’97 - First alpha release • Jul ’98 - First beta release • Dec ’98 - First Geant4 public release - version 1.0 • … • June 30th, ’06 - Geant4 version 8.1 release • July 27th, ’06 - Geant4 8.1-patch01 release • Dec 15th, ’06 - Geant4 version 8.2 release • Feb 23rd, ’07 - Geant4 8.2-patch01 release • May 11th, ’07 - Geant4 version 8.3 release • June 29th, ’07 - Geant4 version 9.0 release <--- Current Release • We currently provide two to three public releases every year. • Bimonthly beta releases are available to the registered beta-testers. Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  6. Geant4 Collaboration TRIUMF Lebedev Collaborators also from non-member institutions, including Budker Inst. of Physics IHEP Protvino MEPHI Moscow Pittsburg University J.W.GoetheUniversität Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

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  8. http://top25.sciencedirect.com/index.php?subject_area_id=21 Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  9. http://www.in-cites.com/hotpapers/2004/november04-eng.html http://www.in-cites.com/hotpapers/2005/mar05-eng.html http://www.in-cites.com/hotpapers/2005/jan05-eng.html http://www.in-cites.com/hotpapers/2005/may05-eng.html http://www.in-cites.com/hotpapers/2005/july05-eng.html Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  10. Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  11. Courtesy of S.Incerti (IN2P3/CNRS) Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  12. INTEGRAL Cassini Bepi Colombo LISA Herschel GLAST SWIFT ACE Astro-E2 Smart-2 XMM-Newton GAIA JWST EUSO AMS MAXI ISS Columbus Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  13. Courtesy T. Ersmark, KTH Stockholm Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

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  16. Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  17. GEANT4 based proton dose calculation in a clinical environment: technical aspects, strategies and challenges Harald Paganetti Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  18. References

  19. Some Recent Conferences of Interest • First European Workshop on Monte Carlo Treatment Planning of the European Workgroup on MCTP • October 22 - 25, 2006 • Gent, Belgium • Talks Online at:http://cdfc00.ugent.be/Ewg-mctp/ • The Japan-Taiwan Symposium on Simulation in Medicine • December 12 - 15, 2006 • Tsukuba, Japan • Monte Carlo techniques in radiotherapy and verification : Third McGill International Workshop • May 28 - June 1, 2007 • McGill University, Montreal, Canada • Talks Online at:http://www.medphys.mcgill.ca/~mcworkshop2007/talks/ Intro to Geant4 - Joseph Perl (SLAC/SCCS)

  20. Step by Step Installation Guides I maintain a set of step-by-step installation guides for Geant4 for standard, single-user installations in Windows, Mac or Linux. Versions available for all releases from the last two or three years up to the latest release, 9.0. The guides have been very popular. Try them out. http://geant4.slac.stanford.edu/installation

  21. Latest Geant4 Tutorial The latest comprehensive Geant4 tutorial given by the SLAC team was in May 2007.The materials from this five day event provide an excellent structured course that you can pursue at your own pace.Just follow the links from the agenda page. http://geant4.slac.stanford.edu/SLACTutorial07/agenda.html

  22. Presentation on Event Biasing andVariance Reduction Techniques Jane Tinslay of the SLAC Geant4 team gave a presentation at the 2007 SLAC Geant4 tutorial that constitutes the best survey to date of the various event biasing and variance reduction techniques available within Geant4. She has pointed out techniques that even many of the Geant4 developers did not know we had supported. http://geant4.slac.stanford.edu/SLACTutorial07/EventBiasing.ppt or .pdf

  23. SLAC Tutorial Hands-On Example 5 Uniform Bremsstrahlung Splitting No splitting Splitting factor = 100 Scoring Geometry One of the hands-on examples from the SLAC tutorial shows you how to implement Bremsstrahlung Splitting. It is based on an experimental benchmark originally coded for Bruce Faddegon. http://geant4.slac.stanford.edu/SLACTutorial07/HandsOn5/HandsOn5.htm

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