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| 14 | </h2></div></div></div><p> |
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| 15 | A very basic introduction to Geant4 is presented in |
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| 16 | <span class="bold"><strong>Chapter 2, "Getting Started with Geant4 - |
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| 17 | Running a Simple Example"</strong></span>. |
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| 18 | It is a recipe for writing and running a simple Geant4 application |
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| 19 | program. New users of Geant4 should read this chapter first. It is |
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| 20 | strongly recommended that this chapter be read in conjunction with |
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| 21 | a Geant4 system installed and running on your computer. It is |
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| 22 | helpful to run the provided examples as they are discussed in the |
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| 23 | manual. To install the Geant4 system on your computer, please refer |
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| 24 | to the |
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| 25 | <a href="http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/support/userdocuments.shtml" target="_top"> |
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| 26 | Installation Guide for Setting up Geant4 in Your Computing Environment</a>. |
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| 27 | </p><p> |
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| 28 | <span class="bold"><strong>Chapter 3, "Toolkit Fundamentals"</strong></span> |
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| 29 | discusses generalGeant4 issues such as class categories and the physical |
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| 30 | units system. It goes on to discuss runs and events, which are the basic |
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| 31 | units of a simulation. |
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| 32 | </p><p> |
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| 33 | <span class="bold"><strong>Chapter 4, "Detector Definition and Response"</strong></span> |
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| 34 | describes how to construct a detector from customized materials and geometric |
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| 35 | shapes, and embed it in electromagnetic fields. It also describes |
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| 36 | how to make the detector sensitive to particles passing through it |
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| 37 | and how to store this information. |
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| 38 | </p><p> |
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| 39 | How particles are propagated through a material is treated in |
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| 40 | <span class="bold"><strong>Chapter 5, "Tracking and Physics"</strong></span>. |
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| 41 | The Geant4 "philosophy" of particle tracking is presented along with |
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| 42 | summaries of the physics processes provided by the toolkit. The definition |
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| 43 | and implementation of Geant4 particles is discussed and a list of |
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| 44 | particle properties is provided. |
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| 45 | </p><p> |
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| 46 | <span class="bold"><strong>Chapter 6, "User Actions"</strong></span> is a description |
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| 47 | of the "user hooks" by which the simulation code may be customized to perform |
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| 48 | special tasks. |
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| 49 | </p><p> |
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| 50 | <span class="bold"><strong>Chapter 7, "Communication and Control"</strong></span> |
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| 51 | provides a summary of the commands available to the user to control the |
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| 52 | execution of the simulation. After Chapter 2, Chapters 6 and 7 are of formeost |
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| 53 | importance to the new application developer. |
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| 54 | </p><p> |
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| 55 | The display of detector geometry, tracks and events may be incorporated |
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| 56 | into a simulation application by using the tools described in |
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| 57 | <span class="bold"><strong>Chapter 8, "Visualization"</strong></span>. |
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| 58 | </p><p> |
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| 59 | <span class="bold"><strong>Chapter 9, "Examples"</strong></span> provides a set of |
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| 60 | novice and advanced simulation codes which may be compiled and run "as is" |
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| 61 | from the Geant4 source code. These examples may be used as |
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| 62 | educational tools or as base code from which more complex |
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| 63 | applications are developed. |
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