Low Energy Electromagnetic Physics
 Advanced Examples - Test & Analysis

Development Projects and Release Milestones 2003

Physics

Project Status on 30 June 2003 Status on 31 Dec 2003

Release Milestone: April 2003

Update to new "cuts-per-region" design Done, emlowen-V05-00-18  

Release Milestone: June 2003

Penelope processes, photons Done, emlowen-V05-01-03  
Re-design of Bremsstrahlung angular distribution Done, emlowen-V05-01-03  
Ziegler 2000 model Done, emlowen-V05-01-03  

Release Milestone: December 2003

Penelope processes, e- and e+ 1st release of Bremsstrahlung done, emlowen-V05-01-03; ionisation in 
progress
Done, geant4-06-00-00
New models of Bremsstrahlung angular distribution In progress Done
New model of PIXE   In progress
Improve coverage of hadron/ion system testing In progress In progress

Release Milestone: to be defined (2003 or later)

Polarised Rayleigh In progress Published by one of the developers under his name only; this person is not considered appropriate for WG membership any longer.
The release is postponed until a thorough clarification of the correctness of this developer towards the WG.
Polarised Photoelectric    
OOAD - Final state cycle of EM re-design Designed, to be implemented Done for Bremsstrahlung
OOAD - Design iteration in atomic relaxation Tentative milestone Dec 2003, to be confirmed Postponed

Advanced Examples

Project Status on 30 June 2003 Status on 31 Dec 2003

Release Milestone: June 2003

Gamma-ray telescope
Implement recommendations of the code review
Use modular PhysicsList
Option for using LowE/standard e.m. physics
Introduce hadronic physics

 
Done, GammaRayTel-V05-01-00
 
 

 
X-ray telescope
Implement recommendations of the code review
Bug fixes
Done, XrayTel-V05-02-01   
Brachytherapy
Implement recommendations of the code review
Done, brachy-V05-01-04  
Fluorescence
Implement recommendations of the code review
Done, XrayFluo-V05-01-01  
Underground
Implement recommendations of the code review
Fix to physics list - reduction in object creation 
Addition to visualisation - HEPREP implementation 
Fix to hits collection - photocathode material could 
Done, DMX-V05-01-02   
Composite calorimeter
Implement recommendations of the code review
Done, ccal-V05-01-01   
lAr calorimeter
Implement recommendations of the code review
Done, lAr_calorimeter-V05-01-00  
RICH
1st release

Done, Rich-V05-01-00

 
Radioprotection
1st release
   

Release Milestone: December 2003

Gamma-ray telescope
Introduce FITS output
Geometry with GDML
Introduce Radioactive Decay
Review User Requirements
Design iteration
   
X-ray telescope    
Brachytherapy
Run from the web
Integration with DIANE (parallel, GRID)
Input from CT
  Done (see talk at Como 2004); will be released after publication
Fluorescence
Design iteration to introduce alternative geometries
Design iteration to better deal with materials
  Done
Underground    
Composite calorimeter    
lAr calorimeter    
RICH    
Radioprotection
Geometry to define a digital anthropomorphic phantom Input from CT, PET, SPECT
Voxel-based definition of tissue
Definition of a reference phantom
  The group responsible for this example quit the Geant4 Collaboration.
The INFN-Genova group will take over the responsibility for the radioprotection example, redefining its scope for release in 2004.
Hadrontherapy
1st release + validation with experimental data
  In progress
Treatment head
1st release
  In progress

Release Milestone: to be defined (Dec 2003 or 2004)

GEANE-like   The developer responsible for this project quit the Geant4 Collaboration.

Test & Analysis

Project Status on 30 June 2003 Status on 31 Dec 2003

Release Milestone: June 2003

General EM Physics test (test50 ) Done (1st release)  
First set of quantitative validation results (NIST) Done, EM Physics Test summary  
First release of the GoF Toolkit Done, StatisticsTesting-V1-00-00  

Release Milestone: December 2003

Integration of test50 in system testing Subject to availability of STT Done
Integration of statistics testing and test50 In progress Done
Automated regression testing To be discussed with STT Done at INFN-LNGS
Extended set of quantitative validation results  In progress Done
Extension of GoF Toolkit (AD, CvM, errors...) In progress Done

Other projects

Project Status on 30 June 2003 Status on 31 Dec 2003

Release Milestone: June 2003

DICOM interface, 1st release based on user contribution + major design and code review by G4 Done (1st release)  

Release Milestone: December 2003

DICOM interface, improved OOAD release    
DIANE: example of usage with Geant4 In progress In progress

Last update 27 April 2003 - Maria Grazia Pia