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IEEE NSS-MIC 2003
A Short Course on the Geant4 Simulation
Toolkit, organized by the Geant4 Collaboration, is available as part of
the programme of the 2003
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium - Medical Imaging Conference.
Lecture
Notes
A CD containing the lecture notes, Geant4 code, libraries and examples will
be distributed to all course participants.
Please note that no paper copies of the lecture notes
will be distributed: the students are invited to print
the files linked to this page, if they wish to have their own paper copy
of the lecture notes.
- Brief overview of basic concepts in the simulation of particle
interactions with matter
- Geant4 vision: scope, fundamental concepts
- Geant4 architecture
- System of units
- Geant4 kernel (Run, Event, Tracking)
Detector modeling - G. Cosmo, M. Asai (60')
Tea Break
Primary event generation and interactions of particle with matter - M. Asai,
M.G. Pia, D. Wright (120')
Lunch
- Visualisation
- User interface
- Associated data analysis
- Event biasing
- Parameterisation (fast simulation)
- Persistency
- Parallelisation and integration in a distributed computing environment
- High energy physics experiments
- Astroparticle physics and astrophysics
- Space science
- Medical physics: radiotherapy, nuclear medicine
- Design of a simple user application
- User initialisation and actions
Tea Break
- Design overview
- Code overview
- Demo
- Geant4 installation, supported platforms
- Documentation
- User support
Total training time: 8 hours
Last update 13 October 2003 - Maria
Grazia Pia