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| 11 | Introduction
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| 12 | </h2></div></div></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="sect.scope"></a>1.1.
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| 13 | Scope of this manual
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| 14 | </h2></div></div></div><p>
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| 15 | The User's Guide for Application Developers is the first manual the
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| 16 | reader should consult when learning about Geant4 or developing a
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| 17 | Geant4-based detector simulation program. This manual is designed
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| 18 | to:
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| 19 | </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc" compact><li><p>
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| 20 | introduce the first-time user to the Geant4 object-oriented
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| 21 | detector simulation toolkit,
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| 22 | </p></li><li><p>
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| 23 | provide a description of the available tools and how to use
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| 24 | them, and
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| 25 | </p></li><li><p>
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| 26 | supply the practical information required to develop and run
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| 27 | simulation applications which may be used in real experiments.
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| 28 | </p></li></ul></div><p>
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| 29 | This manual is intended to be an overview of the toolkit, rather
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| 30 | than an exhaustive treatment of it. Related physics discussions are
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| 31 | not included unless required for the description of a particular
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| 32 | tool. Detailed discussions of the physics included in Geant4 can be
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| 33 | found in the
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| 34 | <a href="http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/support/userdocuments.shtml" target="_top">
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| 35 | Physics Reference Manual</a>.
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| 36 | Details of the design and functionality of the Geant4 classes can be found in the
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| 37 | <a href="http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/support/userdocuments.shtml" target="_top">
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| 38 | User's Guide for Toolkit Developers</a>, and a complete list of
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| 39 | all Geant4 classes is given in the
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| 40 | <a href="http://pcitapiww.cern.ch/asdcgi/geant4/SRM/G4GenDoc.csh?flag=1" target="_top">
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| 41 | Software Reference Manual</a>.
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| 42 | </p><p>
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| 43 | Geant4 is a completely new detector simulation toolkit written
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| 44 | in the C++ language. The reader is assumed to have a basic
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| 45 | knowledge of object-oriented programming using C++. No knowledge of
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| 46 | earlier FORTRAN versions of Geant is required. Although Geant4 is a
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| 47 | fairly complicated software system, only a relatively small part of
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| 48 | it needs to be understood in order to begin developing detector
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| 49 | simulation applications.
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