Geant4 Users' Tutorial

Geant4 Tasks

The practical sessions of this course are organized in several tasks, each one covering a part of Geant4. All the exercises are based on an unique application, but are related to different parts of this.

Task 0 - Introduction to Geant4

• How to compile and run the example programs
• Introduction to basic UI commands
• Introduction to visualization
• Where to find help

Task 1 - Geometry

• Defining and using materials
• Constructing a volume using solids, logical and physical volumes
• (Optional:) Magnetic fields

Task 2 - Primary Particles and User Interface

• Particle gun
• General Particle source

Task 3 - Physics and Physics Lists

• Processes and particles
• Physics constructors
• Physics lists
• Production and cuts

Task 4 - Getting Information from Geant4 Objects and using it.

• User Actions
• Native Scoring
• Sensitive Detectors
• User-custom Hits
• Multithreading (optional)

Task 5 - (Optional) build an entire full application