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Geant4 IN2P3 School

18 - 22 March 2024, Accra, Ghana

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The 2023 tutorial is supported and organised by The Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences (SNAS) at the University of Ghana, in collaboration with the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), Université Paris Saclay (UPS) in France, and the French Embassy in Ghana. See also the Ghana tutorial Web sites:

https://franceghana-geant4.com/

Location

**Graduate School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences , Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Accra, Ghana Map

Timetable

  • Monday: 11:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 18:00 *
  • Tuesday - Friday: 9:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 18:00 *

Lecturers

  • Ivana Hrivnacova (IJCLab Orsay, Universite de Paris-Sud, IN2P3-CNRS) (responsible),
  • Igor Semeniouk (LLR, Ecole Polytechnique),
  • Marc Verderi (LLR, Ecole Polytechnique)
  • Konstantinos Chatzipapas (IN2P3)

Participants

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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.

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

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, besides the books on C++, you can also revise your knowledge e.g. on this site: https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/index.html#Cpp and follow: 5. C++ OOP Examples 6. C++ OOP Inheritance & Polymorphism where the most important concepts used in Geant4 are presented.

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