Ecole Geant4 de l’IN2P3 et PHENIICS

Orsay, building 203 (LAL)

The 2018 tutorial is supported and organised by The Doctoral School PHENIICS, see also the tutorial Web sites:
https://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr/sites/default/files/geant4_1.pdf.

Lecturers

Ivana Hrivnacova (IPN Orsay, Universite de Paris-Sud, IN2P3-CNRS) (responsible),
Laurent Garnier (Immersia Rennes),
Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole Polytechnique)

Registration (for external participants) – CLOSED

Only participants from non-commercial educational or research organizations can apply to this session. The participants from commercial organizations can apply to the second session proposed by CNRS Formation Entreprises which will take place in June.

No registration fee will be asked. The travel, accommodation and meals will not be provided and will be entirely at the charge of participants.

If you are interested in participating in the tutorial, please fill in the registration form and return it to us ( ivana@ipno.in2p3.fr) together with a document proving your position (student, teacher, researcher) in a non-commercial organization. An ID will be required upon arrival at the tutorial place.

Objectives

The tutorial will alternate lectures with exercises for development of a user application. The goal is to learn step by step using the Geant4 toolkit and developing of a Geant4 application. The following topics will be covered:

Definition of geometry and materials
Definition the primary particles sources
Definition of physical processes and selection of a physics list
User interfaces, macros, visualization
Accounting physical quantities (« scoring »), analysis
Multithreading
Biasing

Timetable

Registration: Monday: from 10h00 to 10h30
Morning session (Monday): from 10h30 to 12h30
Morning sessions (Tue-Fri): from 9h00 to 12h30
Afternoon sessions (Mon-Thu): from 14h00 to 18h00
Afternoon session (Friday): from 14h00 to 16h00

The detailed program is available here.

Required skills

Basic level of C++ programming language is required :

basic/syntax: if statements, loop constructs functions, pointers, references, passing function arguments
classes: class definition and implementation, class data members and member functions/methods, static data members, member functions/methods, base class and derived class, pure virtual function/method
standard template library: iostream, vector

For those who need a revision see more here.

Geant4 Installation

The hands on will be done on the classroom computers (MAC OSX) with the Geant4 software already installed. If participants want to work with their laptops, it is necessary to install Geant4 before start of the course. No support for installation will be provided during the course. Also no support will be provided for Windows OS.

More detailed instructions about the necessary Geant4 configuration are available here.

Contact:
Ivana Hrivnacova, IPN Orsay
E-mail: ivana@ipno.in2p3.fr

Tutorial 2018, 14 – 18 May