Geant4 @ Particle Detector course (Sapienza 2021)

Class on Geant4 given during the course "Detector and Accelerator for Particle Physics" of the Department of Physics, Sapienza

• Aula Rasetti. 15 and 22 April - 13, 20 and 27 May 2021

Useful links

• Geant4 web page
• Guide for Physics Lists
• A course on Geant4
• Virtual Machine with Geant4 installed

Examples:

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

Exercises:

• Intro
• Task 0
• Task 1
• Task 2
• Task 3

Docker

You can also use a Docker container with Geant4 and Qt once you have installed Docker on you machine, download the container with:

docker pull carlomt/geant4-gui

and follow the instructions from here

Suggestions on Geant4 installation