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Welcome

• First large scale tutorial in France supported by
  8 institutes
• About 120 participants
• Try to cover all aspects of Geant4
• For novice and advanced users
• Version 8.3 (11 May 2007)

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Local organizers
Cilème
Sabine

• Sabine Bérard (CEA/SPhN)
• Simon Chollet (IN2P3/LLR)
• Cilème Dogan (CEA/SPhN)
• Paul Guèye (JLab/Hampton U.)
• Pierre François Honoré (CEA/SPhN)
• Sébastien Incerti (IN2P3/CENBG)
• Sophie Kerhoas-Cavata (CEA/SPhN)
• Catherine Seznec (IN2P3/CENBG)
• Marc Verderi (IN2P3/LLR)

Simon
Catherine
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Lecturers

• Michel Maire (IN2P3/LAPP)
• Marc Verderi (IN2P3/LLR)
• Makoto Asai (SLAC)
• Paul Guèye (JLab/Hampton U.)
• Sébastien Incerti (IN2P3/CENBG)
• Giovanni Santin (ESA)
• Ivana Hrivnacova (IN2P3/LAL)
• Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN)
• Aatos Hikkinen (HIP)
• Gunter Folger (CERN)
• John Apostolakis (CERN)
• Lydia Maigne (IN2P3/LPC Clermont)

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Specific application developers this Friday

• Sébastien Jan (CEA/DSV)
• GATE
• Laurent Guigues (CREATIS)
• ThIS
• Pierre Pourrouquet Thierry Beutier (TRAD)
• FASTRAD
• Giovanni Santin (ESA)
• GRAS
• Laurent Desorgher (Bern U.)
• PLANETOCOSMISCS

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Monday

• 09h00 09h10 Welcome and tutorial introduction
  (organizers)
• 09h10 09h45 Introduction to Monte Carlo
  simulations (M. Maire)
• 09h45 10h00 C for Geant4 users (M. Verderi)
• 10h00 10h45 Kernel 1 (M. Asai)
• General introduction
• Global structure of Geant4
• Run, event, track, step, trajectory, etc.
• User classes
• 10h45 11h15 Break
• 11h15 11h30 User Interface 1 (M. Asai)
• Syntax
• Interactive mode / batch mode
• G4UIterminal class

• 14h00 14h30 Material Definition (G. Santin)
• Defining Materials
• NIST Material database
• 14h30 15h15 Geometry 1 (M. Asai)
• Introduction
• G4VUserDetectorConstruction class
• Solid
• Logical volume
• 15h15 15h45 Physics 1 (M. Verderi)
• Introduction
• G4VUserPhysicsList class
• Modular physics list
• Packaged physics lists
• 15h45 16h15 Coffee Break
• 16h15 17h30 HANDS ON 1 (S. Incerti)

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Tuesday

• 9h00 9h15 Highlight of user applications (S.
  Incerti)
• 9h15 10h00 Geometry 2 (M. Asai)
• Placement volume
• Parameterized volume
• Replica volume
• Nested parametrisation
• 10h00 10h30 Visualization 2 (P. Gueye)
• Visualization of trajectory
• Visualization attributes
• 10h30 11h Break
• 11h00 11h45 Physics 2 (M. Verderi)
• Overview
• Processes
• Production thresholds

• 14h00 14h30 Physics 3 (M. Asai)
• Cuts per region
• Decay
• Optical
• 14h30 14h45 Analysis 1 (P. Gueye)
• Introduction to analysis tools
• 14h45 15h30 Scoring 1 (M. Asai)
• Introduction to sensitivity
• G4VPrimitiveScorer and related classes
• G4VSDFilter
• G4Run and G4UserRunAction
• 15h30 16h Coffee Break
• 16h00 17h30 HANDS ON 2 (I. Hrivnacova)
• Material and geometry implementation
• Visualization

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Wednesday

• 09h00 09h30 Geometry 3 (I. Hrivnacova)
• Geometry checking tools
• Touchable
• Region
• 09h30 10h15 EM Physics 1 (M. Maire, V.
  Ivantchenko)
• EM standard overview
• Multiple scattering
• 10h15 10h45 EM Physics 2 (S. Incerti)
• Low-E EM overview
• 10h45 11h15 Break
• 11h15 12h00 Hadronic Physics 1 (A. Heikkinen,
  G. Folger)
• Overview
• Elastic process
• Precompound/de-exitation models
• Cascade models

• 14h00 - 14h30 User Interface 2 (M. Asai)
• Define user commands
• 14h30 - 14h50 User Documents and Examples 2 (J.
  Apostolakis)
• Toolkit developers manual
• Physics reference manual
• Extended and advanced examples in Geant4
  distribution
• 14h50 - 15h30 Scoring 2 (M. Asai)
• Sensitive detector
• Hits
• 15h30 - 16h00 Break
• 16h00 17h30 HANDS ON 3 (M. Maire, V.
  Ivantchenko, G. Folger, A. Heikkinen)
• Physics

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Thursday

• 09h00 - 09h30 Geometry 4 (I. Hrivnacova)
• Nested parameterization
• Reflected volume, Assembly volume
• Geometry optimization
• 09h30 - 10h00 Geometry 5 (I. Hrivnacova, J.
  Apostolakis)
• Navigator's view of the geometry
• Best practice in creating a geometry
• 10h00 - 10h45 External fields (J. Apostolakis)
• Magnetic field
• Describing EM fields to the kernel
• Tailoring an application for accuracy/performance
  
• 10h45 - 11h15 Break
• 11h15 - 12h00 Hadronic Physics 3 (A. Heikkinen,
  G. Folger)
• String models
• CHIPS / electro-nuclear models

• 14h00 - 14h45 Analysis (P. Gueye)
• Data analysis
• Ntuples
• 14h45 - 15h15 Event Biasing (M. Verderi)
• Overview
• Geometrical biasing
• Physics biasing
• Bremsstrahlung splitting
• 15h15 15h45 Kernel 2 (M. Asai) (ppt, pdf)
• User limits
• User information classes
• Stack management
• 15h45 - 16h15 Break
• 16h15 - 17h30 HANDS ON 4 (M. Verderi)
• Define scorers histograms

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Friday

• 09h00 - 09h30 Kernel 3 (M. Asai) (ppt, pdf)
• Parallel geometry
• Moving objects
• Shower parameterization
• 9h30 - 10h15 Cluster implementation and grid (L.
  Maigne)
• 10h15 10h30 JLab Physics and Geant4 (P. Gueye)
• 10h30 - 11h00 Coffee Break
• 11h00 - 11h20 GATE (S. Jan, CEA/DSV Orsay)
• 11h20 - 11h40 ThIS (L. Guigues, CREATIS Lyon )
• 11h40 - 12h00 FASTRAD (T. Beutier or P.
  Pourrouquet )
• 12h00 - 12h20 GRAS (G. Santin)

• 14h00 - 14h20 PLANETOCOSMICS (L. Desorgher)
• 14h20 - 15h45 User Forum idea box
• 15h45 - 16h00 Coffee Break
• 16h00 16h30 Development plans and discussion
  about a Geant4 France collaboration

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Practical information

• 900 1730 daily schedule
• Coffee breaks and lunch included
• WiFi access during the tutorial
• Emergency contact
• 06 16 90 24 51 (Sophie)
• 06 74 02 82 12 (Sébastien)
• 06 77 14 15 01 (Marc)

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Social program

• Welcome drink at the Ministère de la Recherche
• Monday starting 1730
• Seine river  Bateau mouche  tour quai Saint
  Michel
• Thursday starting 1900

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Group Photo

• Someday, somewhere

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Thanks !

• CEA
• Ecole Polytechnique
• ESA
• Hampon University
• IN2P3
• INSERM
• Institut Curie
• Jefferson Lab