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Other Issues. Manpower J. Apostolakis Geant4 D Review 2009. # 30: Manpower and resource plans.

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  1. Other Issues Manpower J. Apostolakis Geant4 D Review 2009

  2. # 30: Manpower and resource plans Recommendation: “We recommend that Geant4 develop manpower and resource plans for the next five years. They should be consistent with timely delivery of features and capabilities to the user community.” Response: • Plans for 2009 and 2010-12 have been drafted for maintenance, development and validation in ElectroMagnetic, Hadronic and Geometry areas. • Preparing working plans for 2009 and 2010-12 • Identifying areas where missing or additional manpower is required for timely delivery of new models, capabilities, for validation or improvements.

  3. #30 (cont.) • Profile of Geant4 Collaboration • Institutions • HEP Labs: CERN, KEK/Japan Univ., SLAC, TRIUMF – and FNAL • HEP Funding agency grouped: IN2P3, INFN, STFC • ESA • Institutes / Universities • HIP, LIP - and Sevilla • Individual members • Contributors from additional institutions/labs • CIEMAT, DESY (Zeuthen), • Contributors from existing ‘tools’ • INCL team: Liege, CEA

  4. #30 • Considerations • Contributors profile • Contribution type

  5. #31: Seeking manpower Recommendation 31: “We recommend that Geant4 seek the additional support implied by the manpower and resource plans from all available sources.” Response: • US proposals • A proposal is being readied to submit to the US DoE for funding for Geant4 development and maintenance for HEP applications. • Pursuing funding for Geant4 medical physics applications from US NIH. • Pursuing funding for head-to-head comparison between Geant4 and MCNPX from US DHS. • Participation of CERN in EU-funded projects: obtained 2 PhD students • Effect of neutrons on gas detectors (including validation of key neutron physics) • ( MC-PAD project “ESR”=early stage researcher) • Validation for hadrontherapy (PARTNER). • 3 ESA technology programs for 2009-10 • Support for sub-micrometer dosimetry / Geant4-DNA • Funded for 2009 by Region Acquiataine and CNRS (France) • Further future funding being sought (2 proposals) • FJPPL: France – Japan Particle Physics Laboratory (started in 2007) • collaboration for travel, brief stays.

  6. BACKUP SLIDe(S)

  7. External contributions • 2008 • Feedback from SMM authors (Botvinna et al.) • Correcting Multi-fragmentation to correspond to their original model • Contribution by orig. authors and I. Pshenichnov • Future • Offered capabilities for neutron transport • Full new data library and implementation (LLNL) • Additional ability for data input / CIEMAT (in discussion)

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