Session 4

Physics

Objectives

  • Give an overview of the physics panel of Geant4
    • Explain how Geant4 models/abstracts the physics processes
    • Explain how Geant4 handles the variety of physics models and provides various physics configurations.
  • Expose the issue of the control of production thresholds

Presentations

  • Physics 0 ( slides )

    • Overview of physics presentations in this tutorial, Introduction
  • Physics 1 ( slides )

    • G4VUserPhysicsList class, Modular physics list, Packaged physics lists, Physics list factory.
  • Physics 2 ( slides )

    • Physics Processes, Production thresholds, Cuts per region.

Exercise

  • Explore physics processes
  • Use of G4PhysListFactory class
  • Set particle thresholds
  • Define regions