Welcome

• First large scale tutorial in France supported by 8 institutes

• About 120 participants• Try to cover all aspects of Geant4• For novice and advanced users• Version 8.3 (11 May 2007)

Local organizers

• Sabine Bérard (CEA/SPhN)• Simon Chollet (IN2P3/LLR)• Cilème Dogan (CEA/SPhN)• Paul Guèye (JLab/Hampton U.)• Pierre François Honoré (CEA/SPhN)• Sébastien Incerti (IN2P3/CENBG)• Sophie Kerhoas-Cavata (CEA/SPhN)• Catherine Seznec (IN2P3/CENBG)• Marc Verderi (IN2P3/LLR)

Sabine

Cilème

Simon

Catherine

Lecturers

• Michel Maire (IN2P3/LAPP)• Marc Verderi (IN2P3/LLR)• Makoto Asai (SLAC)• Paul Guèye (JLab/Hampton U.)• Sébastien Incerti (IN2P3/CENBG)• Giovanni Santin (ESA)• Ivana Hrivnacova (IN2P3/LAL)• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)• Aatos Hikkinen (HIP)• Gunter Folger (CERN)• John Apostolakis (CERN)• Lydia Maigne (IN2P3/LPC Clermont)

Specific application developers this Friday• Sébastien Jan (CEA/DSV)

• GATE

• Laurent Guigues (CREATIS)• ThIS

• Pierre Pourrouquet & Thierry Beutier (TRAD)• FASTRAD

• Giovanni Santin (ESA) • GRAS

• Laurent Desorgher (Bern U.)• PLANETOCOSMISCS

Monday09h00 – 09h10 Welcome and tutorial introduction (organizers)

09h10 – 09h45 Introduction to Monte Carlo simulations (M. Maire)

09h45 – 10h00 C++ for Geant4 users (M. Verderi)

10h00 – 10h45 Kernel 1 (M. Asai)General introduction Global structure of Geant4 Run, event, track, step, trajectory, etc. User classes

10h45 – 11h15 Break

11h15 – 11h30 User Interface 1 (M. Asai) Syntax Interactive mode / batch mode G4UIterminal class

11h30 – 12h00 Visualization 1 (P. Gueye) Introduction to Visualization Quick Looks at Seven Visualization Drivers Visualization UI commands

12h00 – 12h30 User Documents and Examples 1 (S. Incerti)Installation Guide Application developers manual Novice examples in Geant4 distribution LXR source code browser HyperNews

14h00 – 14h30 Material Definition (G. Santin) Defining Materials NIST Material database

14h30 – 15h15 Geometry 1 (M. Asai) Introduction G4VUserDetectorConstruction class Solid Logical volume

15h15 – 15h45 Physics 1 (M. Verderi) Introduction G4VUserPhysicsList class Modular physics list Packaged physics lists

15h45 – 16h15 Coffee Break

16h15 – 17h30 HANDS ON 1 (S. Incerti)Execute novice examples to confirm the Geant4 installationBasic Geant4 user interface

Tuesday

9h00 – 9h15 Highlight of user applications (S. Incerti)

9h15 – 10h00 Geometry 2 (M. Asai) Placement volume Parameterized volume Replica volume Nested parametrisation

10h00 – 10h30 Visualization 2 (P. Gueye) Visualization of trajectory Visualization attributes

10h30 – 11h Break

11h00 – 11h45 Physics 2 (M. Verderi) Overview Processes Production thresholds

11h45 – 12h30 Primary Particle (G. Santin) G4VUserPrimaryGeneratorAction class G4ParticleGun General particle source

14h00 – 14h30 Physics 3 (M. Asai)Cuts per region Decay Optical

14h30 – 14h45 Analysis 1 (P. Gueye)

Introduction to analysis tools

14h45 – 15h30 Scoring 1 (M. Asai)Introduction to sensitivity G4VPrimitiveScorer and related classes G4VSDFilter G4Run and G4UserRunAction

15h30 – 16h Coffee Break

16h00 – 17h30 HANDS ON 2 (I. Hrivnacova)Material and geometry implementation Visualization

Wednesday09h00 – 09h30 Geometry 3 (I. Hrivnacova)

Geometry checking tools Touchable Region

09h30 – 10h15 EM Physics 1 (M. Maire, V. Ivantchenko) EM standard overview Multiple scattering

10h15 – 10h45 EM Physics 2 (S. Incerti)Low-E EM overview

10h45 – 11h15 Break

11h15 – 12h00 Hadronic Physics 1 (A. Heikkinen, G. Folger) Overview Elastic process Precompound/de-exitation models Cascade models Parameterized models

12h00 – 12h30 Hadronic Physics 2 (G. Folger) Neutron physics Ion physics

14h00 - 14h30 User Interface 2 (M. Asai)Define user commands

14h30 - 14h50 User Documents and Examples 2 (J. Apostolakis) Toolkit developers manual Physics reference manual Extended and advanced examples in Geant4 distribution

14h50 - 15h30 Scoring 2 (M. Asai)Sensitive detector Hits

15h30 - 16h00 Break

16h00 – 17h30 HANDS ON 3 (M. Maire, V. Ivantchenko, G. Folger, A. Heikkinen) Physics

Thursday09h00 - 09h30 Geometry 4 (I. Hrivnacova)

Nested parameterization Reflected volume, Assembly volume Geometry optimization

09h30 - 10h00 Geometry 5 (I. Hrivnacova, J. Apostolakis) Navigator's view of the geometryBest practice in creating a geometry

10h00 - 10h45 External fields (J. Apostolakis) Magnetic fieldDescribing EM fields to the kernelTailoring an application for accuracy/performance

10h45 - 11h15 Break

11h15 - 12h00 Hadronic Physics 3 (A. Heikkinen, G. Folger) String models CHIPS / electro-nuclear models Capture / fission / isotope-production models Radioactive decay

12h00 – 12h30 Physics lists (P. Gueye, G. Folger)

14h00 - 14h45 Analysis (P. Gueye) Data analysisNtuples

14h45 - 15h15 Event Biasing (M. Verderi) Overview Geometrical biasing Physics biasing Bremsstrahlung splitting

15h15 – 15h45 Kernel 2 (M. Asai) (ppt, pdf)User limits User information classes Stack management

15h45 - 16h15 Break

16h15 - 17h30 HANDS ON 4 (M. Verderi)Define scorers & histogramsAlternate physics lists Output results

Friday09h00 - 09h30 Kernel 3 (M. Asai) (ppt, pdf)

Parallel geometry Moving objects Shower parameterization

9h30 - 10h15 Cluster implementation and grid (L. Maigne)

10h15 – 10h30 JLab Physics and Geant4 (P. Gueye)

10h30 - 11h00 Coffee Break

11h00 - 11h20 GATE (S. Jan, CEA/DSV Orsay)

11h20 - 11h40 ThIS (L. Guigues, CREATIS Lyon )

11h40 - 12h00 FASTRAD (T. Beutier or P. Pourrouquet )

12h00 - 12h20 GRAS (G. Santin)

14h00 - 14h20 PLANETOCOSMICS (L. Desorgher)

14h20 - 15h45 User Forum + idea box

15h45 - 16h00 Coffee Break

16h00 – 16h30 Development plans and discussion about a “Geant4 France” collaboration

Practical information

• 9:00 – 17:30 daily schedule

• Coffee breaks and lunch included

• WiFi access during the tutorial

• Emergency contact • 06 16 90 24 51 (Sophie)• 06 74 02 82 12 (Sébastien)• 06 77 14 15 01 (Marc)

Social program

• Welcome drink at the Ministère de la Recherche• Monday starting 17:30

• Seine river « Bateau mouche » tour – quai Saint Michel• Thursday starting 19:00

Group Photo

Someday, somewhere

Thanks !

• CEA• Ecole Polytechnique• ESA• Hampon University • IN2P3• INSERM• Institut Curie• Jefferson Lab