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13Advanced Examples
14</h2></div></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="sect.ExmpAdv.AdvExmp"></a>9.3.1. 
15Advanced Examples
16</h3></div></div></div><p>
17Geant4 advanced examples illustrate realistic applications of
18Geant4 in typical experimental environments. Most of them also show
19the usage of
20<a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/analysis.html" target="_top">
21analysis tools
22</a>
23 (such as histograms, ntuples and plotting), various
24visualization features and advanced user interface facilities,
25together with the simulation core.
26</p><p>
27<span class="bold"><strong>Note</strong></span>: Maintenance and updates of
28the code is under the responsibility of the authors. These applications
29are therefore not subject to regular system testing and no guarantee
30can be provided.
31</p><p>
32The advanced examples include:
33
34</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc" compact><li><p>
35 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/" target="_top">
36 <span class="bold"><strong>air_shower</strong></span>
37 </a>
38 , a simulation of the ULTRA detector with Fresnel lenses
39 for UV and charged particles detection in cosmic rays.
40 </p></li><li><p>
41 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/brachytherapy/" target="_top">
42 <span class="bold"><strong>brachytherapy</strong></span>
43 </a>
44 , illustrating a typical medical physics application simulating
45 energy deposit in a Phantom filled with soft tissue.
46 </p></li><li><p>
47 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/hadrontherapy/" target="_top">
48 <span class="bold"><strong>hadrontherapy</strong></span>
49 </a>
50 , illustrating a application simulating an hadron therapy beam line
51 for medical physics.
52 </p></li><li><p>
53 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/human_phantom" target="_top">
54 <span class="bold"><strong>human_phantom</strong></span>
55 </a>
56 , implementing an Anthropomorphic Phantom body built importing the
57 description from a
58 <a href="http://cern.ch/gdml" target="_top">GDML</a> representation.
59 </p></li><li><p>
60 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/medical_linac/" target="_top">
61 <span class="bold"><strong>medical_linac</strong></span>
62 </a>
63 , illustrating a typical medical physics application simulating
64 energy deposit in a Phantom filled with water for a typical linac
65 used for intensity modulated radiation therapy. The experimental
66 set-up is very similar to one used in clinical practice.
67 </p></li><li><p>
68 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/microbeam" target="_top">
69 <span class="bold"><strong>microbeam</strong></span>
70 </a>
71 , simulates the cellular irradiation beam line installed on the
72 AIFIRA electrostatic accelerator facility located at CENBG,
73 Bordeaux-Gradignan, France.
74 </p></li><li><p>
75 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/purging_magnet/" target="_top">
76 <span class="bold"><strong>purging_magnet</strong></span>
77 </a>
78 , illustrating an application that simulates electrons traveling
79 through a 3D magnetic field; used in a medical environment for
80 simulating a strong purging magnet in a treatment head.
81 </p></li><li><p>
82 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/~geant4/hep/radmon/" target="_top">
83 <span class="bold"><strong>radiation_monitor</strong></span>
84 </a>
85 , illustrating an application for the study of the effects of a chip
86 carrier on silicon radiation monitoring devices used in the LHC
87 environment.
88 </p></li><li><p>
89 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/radioprotection/" target="_top">
90 <span class="bold"><strong>radioprotection</strong></span>
91 </a>
92 , illustrating an application to evaluate the dose in astronauts, in
93 vehicle concepts and Moon surface habitat configurations, in a
94 defined interplanetary space radiation environment.
95 </p></li><li><p>
96 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/gammaray_telescope/" target="_top">
97 <span class="bold"><strong>gammaray_telescope</strong></span>
98 </a>
99 , illustrating an application to typical gamma ray telescopes with a
100 flexible configuration.
101 </p></li><li><p>
102 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/xray_telescope/" target="_top">
103 <span class="bold"><strong>xray_telescope</strong></span>
104 </a>
105 , illustrating an application for the study of the radiation
106 background in a typical X-ray telescope.
107 </p></li><li><p>
108 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/fluorescence/" target="_top">
109 <span class="bold"><strong>xray_fluorescence</strong></span>
110 </a>
111 , illustrating the emission of X-ray fluorescence and PIXE.
112 </p></li><li><p>
113 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/" target="_top">
114 <span class="bold"><strong>underground_physics</strong></span>
115 </a>
116 , illustrating an underground detector for dark matter searches.
117 </p></li><li><p>
118 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/cosmicray_charging/" target="_top">
119 <span class="bold"><strong>cosmicray_charging</strong></span>
120 </a>
121 , illustrating an application aimed at simulating the electrostatic
122 charging of isolated test masses in the LISA mission by galactic
123 cosmic ray protons and helium nuclei.
124 </p></li><li><p>
125 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/composite_calorimeter/" target="_top">
126 <span class="bold"><strong>composite_calorimeter</strong></span>
127 </a>
128 , test-beam simulation of the CMS Hadron calorimeter at LHC.
129 </p></li><li><p>
130 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/lAr_calorimeter/" target="_top">
131 <span class="bold"><strong>lAr_calorimeter</strong></span>
132 </a>
133 , simulating the Forward Liquid Argon Calorimeter (FCAL) of the ATLAS
134 Detector at LHC.
135 </p></li><li><p>
136 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/raredecay_calorimetry" target="_top">
137 <span class="bold"><strong>raredecay_calorimetry</strong></span>
138 </a>
139 , illustrating how to estimate importance of photonuclear reactions
140 for photon inefficiency of calorimeters and compare effectiveness
141 of different absorbers in order to reduce it.
142 </p></li><li><p>
143 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/RICH/" target="_top">
144 <span class="bold"><strong>Rich</strong></span>
145 </a>
146 , simulating the TestBeam Setup of the Rich detector at the LHCb
147 experiment, testing the performance of the aerogel radiator
148 </p></li><li><p>
149 <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/Tiara/" target="_top">
150 <span class="bold"><strong>Tiara</strong></span>
151 </a>
152 , a simulation of the neutron shielding experiment TIARA providing a
153 realistic example for applying geometrical importance sampling
154 </p></li></ul></div><p>
155</p><p>
156Further documentation about the analysis tools used in these
157examples is available at:
158<a href="http://aida.freehep.org/" target="_top">
159AIDA
160</a>
161(Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis) and
162
163<a href="http://lcg-pi.web.cern.ch/lcg-pi/" target="_top">
164AIDA/PI
165</a>
166,
167
168<a href="http://jas.freehep.org/jas3/" target="_top">
169JAS
170</a>
171
172 and
173
174<a href="http://openscientist.lal.in2p3.fr/" target="_top">
175OpenScientist
176</a>
177.
178</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch09s02.html"><img src="AllResources/IconsGIF/prev.gif" alt="Prev"></a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch09.html"><img src="AllResources/IconsGIF/up.gif" alt="Up"></a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch10.html"><img src="AllResources/IconsGIF/next.gif" alt="Next"></a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">9.2. 
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