Short Course Stphane Chauvie Cuneo Hospital and INFN

Short Course Stéphane Chauvie (Cuneo Hospital and INFN Torino) Susanna Guatelli (INFN Genova) Maria Grazia Pia (INFN Genova) Siena, 5 -6 October 2006 Geant 4 Training 2006

Outline of the course: part 1 Introduction – Brief overview of basic concepts in the simulation of particle interactions with matter – Geant 4 vision: scope, fundamental concepts Basic structure of the Geant 4 Simulation Toolkit – Geant 4 architecture – System of units – Geant 4 kernel (Run, Event, Tracking) Detector modeling – – Materials Basic Geometry Advanced Geometry Read-out and detector response Geant 4 Training 2006

Outline of the course: part 2 Primary event generation and interactions of particle with matter – – Primary particle generation Particles and physics processes Electromagnetic physics: standard, low-energy, optical processes Hadronic physics Geant 4 Training 2006

Outline of the course: part 3 Interactive capabilities – Visualisation – User interface – Associated data analysis Overview of other Geant 4 capabilities – – Event biasing Parameterisation (fast simulation) Persistency Parallelisation and integration in a distributed computing environment Overview of Geant 4 application in diverse domains – – High energy and nuclear physics experiments Astroparticle physics and astrophysics Space science Medical physics Geant 4 Training 2006

Outline of the course: part 4 How to use Geant 4 – Design of a basic user application – User initialisation and actions An application example: dosimetry with Geant 4 – Design overview – Code overview – Demo Installation – Geant 4 installation, supported platforms How to learn more – Documentation – User support Discussion Geant 4 Training 2006

Course material All course material can be downloaded from http: //www. ge. infn. it/geant 4/events/siena_oct 2006/geant 4 co urse. html Geant 4 User Documentation and further training material can be found at Geant 4 web site: http: //cern. ch/geant 4 After this course, you may profit of Geant 4 user support, provided by the Geant 4 Collaboration – including a User Forum accessible through Hyper. News (link from Geant 4 home page) Geant 4 Training 2006

Geant 4 Training and User Support This course is part of the training programme offered by the Geant 4 Collaboration – an international collaboration of scientists, developing and maintaining the Geant 4 Simulation Toolkit This course is a brief introduction to the architecture, modeling capabilities, physics, functionality and applications of the Geant 4 Toolkit – it does not replace the study of Geant 4 User Documentation More extensive courses, with hands-on exercises, are organized by the Geant 4 Collaboration – information available from Geant 4 web site http: //cern. ch/geant 4 Geant 4 Training 2006