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| 22 | <b>Geant4 User's Guide</b>
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| 23 | <br>
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| 24 | <b>For Application Developers</b>
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| 25 | <br>
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| 26 | <b>Geometry</b>
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| 30 | <br><br>
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| 33 | <h2>4.1.1 Introduction</h2></a>
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| 35 | <p>
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| 36 | The detector definition requires the representation of its geometrical
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| 37 | elements, their materials and electronics properties, together with
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| 38 | visualization attributes and user defined properties. The geometrical
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| 39 | representation of detector elements focuses on the definition of solid
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| 40 | models and their spatial position, as well as their logical relations
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| 41 | to one another, such as in the case of containment.
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| 44 | Geant4 uses the concept of "Logical Volume" to manage the representation
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| 45 | of detector element properties. The concept of "Physical Volume" is used
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| 46 | to manage the representation of the spatial positioning of detector
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| 47 | elements and their logical relations. The concept of "Solid" is used
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| 48 | to manage the representation of the detector element solid modeling.
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| 51 | The Geant4 solid modeler is STEP compliant. STEP is the ISO standard defining
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| 52 | the protocol for exchanging geometrical data between CAD systems. This is
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| 53 | achieved by standardizing the representation of solid models via the EXPRESS
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| 54 | object definition language, which is part of the STEP ISO standard.</p>
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