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A Short Course on Geant4 Simulation Toolkit Introduction

A Short Course on Geant4 Simulation Toolkit Introduction. http://cern.ch/geant4. Simulation plays a fundamental role in various domains and phases of an experimental physics project design of the experimental set-up evaluation and definition of the potential physics output of the project

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A Short Course on Geant4 Simulation Toolkit Introduction

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  1. A Short Course on Geant4 Simulation ToolkitIntroduction http://cern.ch/geant4

  2. Simulation plays a fundamental role in various domains and phases of an experimental physics project design of the experimental set-up evaluation and definition of the potential physics output of the project evaluation of potential risks to the project assessment of the performance of the experiment development, test and optimisation of reconstruction and physics analysis software contribution to the calculation and validation of physics results The scope of these lectures (and of Geant4) encompasses the simulation of the passage of particles through matter there are other kinds of simulation components, such as physics event generators, electronics response generation, etc. often the simulation of a complex experiment consists of several of these components interfaced to one another The role of simulation

  3. Detector Simulation - General • General characteristics of a detector simulation system • You specify the geometry of a particle detector • Then the software system automatically transports the particle you shoot into the detector by simulating the particle interactions in matter based on the Monte Carlo method • The heart of the simulation: the Monte Carlo method • A method to search for solutions to a mathematical problem using a statistical sampling with random numbers

  4. Basic requirements for a simulation system • Modeling the experimental set-up • Tracking particles through matter • Interaction of particles with matter • Modeling the detector response • Run and event control • Accessory utilities (random number generators, PDG particle information etc.) • Interface to event generators • Visualisation of the set-up, tracks and hits • User interface • Persistency

  5. The zoo DPM EA-MC FLUKA GEM HERMES LAHET MCBEND MCU MF3D NMTC MONK MORSE RTS&T-2000 SCALE TRAX VMC++ EGS4, EGS5, EGSnrc Geant3, Geant4 MARS MCNP, MCNPX, A3MCNP, MCNP-DSP, MCNP4B MVP, MVP-BURN Penelope Peregrine Tripoli-3, Tripoli-3 A, Tripoli-4 ...and I probably forgot some more Many codes not publicly distributed A lot of business around MC Monte Carlo codes presented at the MC200 Conference, Lisbon, October 2000

  6. What is ? OO Toolkit for the simulation of next generation HEP detectors Born from the requirements of large scale HEP experiments • Geant3 • Fortran • CERN product • inadequate for LHC experiments ...of the current generation too ...not only of HEP detectors also… An experiment of distributed software production and management An experiment of application of rigoroussoftware engineering methodologies andObject Oriented technology to the HEP environment R&D phase: RD44, 1994 - 1998 1st release: December 1998 2 new releases/year since then

  7. ATLAS all interactions 9 orders of magnitude! Higgs LHCb Born from the requirements of large scale HEP experiments LHC Storage raw recording rate 0.1–1 GByte/s accumulating at 12-14 PBytes/year Processing 70,000 of today’s fastest PCs (~6 hours’ Intel CPU production today) 1000 person-years “0ffline” software effort per experiment ~5000 physicistsaround the world, around the clock 20 years software life-span • Geant3 • Fortran • CERN product • inadequate for LHC • experiments

  8. An example of user application FAO/IAEA International Conference on Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests: Integrating the Sterile Insect and Related Nuclear and Other Techniques Vienna, May 9-13, 2005 K. Manai, K. Farah, A.Trabelsi, F. Gharbi and O. Kadri (Tunisia) Dose Distribution and Dose Uniformity in Pupae Treated by the Tunisian Gamma Irradiator Using the GEANT4 Toolkit

  9. Geant4 Collaboration CERN, ESA, KEK, SLAC, TRIUMF, TJNL INFN, IN2P3, PPARC Barcelona Univ., Budker Inst., Frankfurt Univ., Karolinska Inst., Helsinki Univ., Lebedev Inst., LIP, Northeastern Univ. etc. MoU based Distribution, Development and User Support of Geant4

  10. What Can Geant4 Do for You? • Transports a particle step-by-step by taking into account the interactions with materials and external electromagnetic fields until the particle • loses its kinetic energy to zero, • disappears by an interaction, • comes to the end of the simulation volume • Provides a way for the user to access the transportation process and grab the simulation results • at the beginning and end of transportation, • at the end of each stepping in transportation, • at the time when the particle is going into the sensitive volume of the detector • etc. • These are called “User Actions”

  11. What You Have to Do for Geant4? • Three essential information you have to provide: • Geometrical information of the detector • Choice of physics processes • Kinematical information of particles going into the detector • Auxiliary you have to prepare: • Magnetic and electric field • Actions you want to take when you access the particle transportation • Actions you want to take when a particle goes into a sensitive volume of the detector • etc.

  12. Tools for Input Preparation Geant4 provides standard tools to help you to prepare input information • Multiple choices to describe the detector geometry • Combining basic geometry elements (box, cylinder, trapezoid, etc) • Representation by surface planes • Representation by boolean operation, etc. • Standard way to define materials in the detector • A large collection of examples to define various materials • A set of wide variety of particles • Standard elementary particles (electron, muon, proton,….) • Unstable particles (resonances, quarks, …) • Ions • Exotic particles (geantino, charged geantino)

  13. Choice of Physics Processes Geant4 provides a wide variety of physics models of particle interactions with matter you can select • Category of physics processes • Standard electromagnetic processes • Low energy electromagnetic processes • Hadronic processes • How to use physics processes • A rich samples of Physics List provided with example applications • Recommended Physics List (educated guess) for hadronic physics

  14. Minimum Software Knowledge to Use Geant4 • C++ • Geant4 is implemented in C++, therefore a basic knowledge of C++ is mandatory • C++ is a complex language, but you are not required to be a C++ expert to use Geant4 • Object Oriented Technology • basic concepts • in-depth knowledge needed only for the development of complex applications • Unix/Linux • Unix/Linux is a standard working environment for Geant4, therefore a minimum knowledge/experience is required • How to use basic Unix command • How to compile a C++ code • Windows • You can use Visual C++ • Though still you need some knowledge of Unix (cygwin) for installation

  15. Tools to Help Your Simulation • User interface • Interactive mode with terminal or GUI • Batch mode • Visualisation • Trajectory of a particle and its all secondaries • Detector geometry • Debugging • Controllable verbose outputs from the kernel during transportation • Errors in the geometry definition, etc. • Data analysis

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