ASP2018

Lesson on Geant4 and MC at African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications, Windhoek (Namibia) 3rd July 2018

Indico event of the first lesson

Indico event of the second lesson

Indico event of the tutorial

Slides

Tutorial

Useful links

• Third Geant4 International User Conference
• Geant4 web page
• Reference Physics Lists
• Physics lists use cases
• A course on Geant4
• Geant4 doxygen
• Virtual Machine with Geant4 installed

Examples:

• An integral with MC
• Estimation of π with MC
• Geant4 example (modified version of examples/extended/analysis/AnaEx01)
• C++ example (inheritance and polymorphism)

How to download and run the python examples

scl enable python27 bash
pip2.7 install matplotlib --user

mkdir example
cd example
wget http://www.roma1.infn.it/~mancinit/Teaching/ASP2018/integral.py
python2.7 integral.py

wget http://www.roma1.infn.it/~mancinit/Teaching/ASP2018/calculatepi.py
python2.7 calculatepi.py

How to download, compile and run the Geant4 example

source /opt/geant/geant4.10.04.p01-install/bin/geant4.sh
git clone https://github.com/carlomt/AnaEx01.git 
mkdir anaEx01build
cd anaEx01build
cmake -DGeant4_DIR=/opt/geant/geant4.10.04.p01-install ../AnaEx01
make

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