2013 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium - Medical Imaging Conference
Seoul, COEX, 27 October 2013

Short Course: Geant4 Simulation Toolkit

Abstract

Geant4 is a software toolkit for the simulation of the interaction of particles with matter, developed by an international collaboration of physicists, engineers and computer scientists. Its application areas include high energy physics experiments, nuclear physics, astrophysics and astroparticle physics, space science, medical physics and medical imaging, radiation protection, and education. It exploits the object oriented technology to achieve transparency of the physics implementation, as well as openness to extension and evolution. A Geant4 reference paper is the most cited publication in the Nuclear Science & Technology and Instrument & Instrumentation categories, which jointly encompass more than 600000 scholarly publications since 1970 (source: Web of  Knowledge).

Geant4 encompasses a wide set of tools for all the domains of detector simulation, including Geometry modeling, Detector Response, Run and Event management, Tracking, Visualisation and User Interface. An abundant set of Physics Processes handle the diverse interactions of particles with matter across a wide energy range, as required by Geant4 multi-disciplinary nature; for many physics processes a choice among different models is available. The Geant4 source code, libraries and user documentation are freely available. Further information can be found in Geant4 User Documentation.

This Short Course provides an overview of Geant4 capabilities and illustrates the major features available in the toolkit to simulate an experimental scenario. Special emphasis is placed in presenting a methodological approach to developing and validating Geant4-based simulations for experimental applications. The course offers an excellent opportunity to get directly in touch with Geant4 developers and experts.

To best profit from the course, some basic knowledge of the C++ programming language and of the object oriented technology is recommended.

Please feel free to contact the Geant4 Course Organizer or the IEEE NSS 2013 Short Course Co-Chair for further information.

Course Outline Instructors Practical information Lecture Notes


Course Outline  

Presentation of the course

Overview of Geant4

Refresher of basic concepts of Object Oriented Programming and C++ features (optional)

Concepts of a Geant4 user application

Elements of Geant4 kernel

Modelling an experimental set-up with Geant4

Geant4 physics

Overview of additional capabilities

Geant4 in practice

How to learn more

Conclusion and outlook


Course Organizer, Instructors and Junior Assistant

Maria Grazia Pia is a physicist at INFN Genova, Italy. She has been a member of the Geant4 Collaboration since its R&D phase and has been contributing for more than 15 years to Geant4 physics design, development and validation. She has lead various projects within Geant4, including Low Energy Electromagnetic Physics, and R&D for applications in high energy physics, astrophysics and medical physics. Currently she leads a project to open new frontiers to Monte Carlo simulation for particle transport as a quantitative science. She launched the Geant4 Training Programme and is active in the field of technology transfer.  Her Geant4-related activity is documented in several publications. Maria Grazia Pia is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
INFN Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy - Phone: +39 010 353 6328, Fax: +39 010 313358
  Sunanda Banerjee is the Head of the High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics Division at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India. He is a member of the CMS experiment at CERN. He has contributed to Geant4 development and validation since its early R&D phase in the RD44 project. His Geant4-related activity mainly concerns the validation of hadronic physics models and the investigation of shower properties in calorimeters for high energy physics experiments.
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sector-1, Block-AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata-700 064, India- Phone: +41 22 76 71589, Fax: +91-33-2337-4637
  Steffen Hauf is a physicist at the European XFEL, Hamburg, Germany. He currently works on calibration software and simulation tools for detectors at this intense X-ray light source. Previously, he has worked on Geant4-based cosmic-ray background simulations for space-based X-ray observatories. Hee has developed a new radioactive decay package for Geant4 and is involved in Geant4 R&D for physics modeling and validation.
European XFEL GmbH, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany - Phone +49 (0)40 8998-6964, Fax +49 (0)40 8998-1905  

 

  Min Cheol Han is a graduate student at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. He is a member of the NANO5 team and has contributed since 2009 to the development of new Geant4 tools for data management and geometry modeling, and to Geant4 physics validation. His PhD project involves the development of  a Geant4-based 4D computational human phantom for accurate dose calculation and image acquisition.  
Hanyang University, Haengdang 1-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea - Phone: +82 10 2202 1944, Fax: +82 2 2220 4054

Registration

The registration formalities are handled by the IEEE-NSS/MIC Organization. The registration to the Geant4 Course is distinct from the registration to the Conference, i.e. one can attend just the Geant4 Course, or both the Conference and the Geant4 Course. 
Please contact the IEEE NSS-MIC 2013 Short Course Co-Chairs, if you wish further information about attending the Geant4 Course.


Lecture Notes

Lecture notes can be downloaded here.

Last update 26 ottobre 2013 - Maria Grazia Pia