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| 16 | <td ALIGN=RIGHT><b><font color="#238E23"><font size=-1>Geant4 User's Guide</font></font></b> |
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| 17 | <br><b><font color="#238E23"><font size=-1>For Application Developers</font></font></b> |
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| 18 | <br><b><font color="#238E23"><font size=-1>Examples</font></font></b></td> |
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| 23 | <p><b><font color="#238E23"><font size=+3>9.3 Advanced Examples</font></font></b></center> |
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| 27 | <h2> |
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| 28 | <a name="9.3.1"> |
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| 29 | 9.3.1 Advanced Examples</h2></a> |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | Geant4 advanced examples illustrate realistic applications of Geant4 in |
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| 32 | typical experimental environments. Most of them also show the usage of |
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| 33 | <a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/analysis.html">analysis |
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| 34 | tools</a> (such as histograms, ntuples and plotting), various visualization |
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| 35 | features and advanced user interface facilities, together with the simulation |
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| 36 | core.<BR> |
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| 37 | <B>Note</B>: Maintenance and updates of the code is under the responsibility |
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| 38 | of the authors. These applications are therefore not subject to |
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| 39 | regular system testing and no guarantee can be provided. |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | <br>The advanced examples include: |
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| 42 | <ul> |
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| 43 | <li> |
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| 44 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples">air_shower</a></b>, |
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| 45 | a simulation of the ULTRA detector with Fresnel lenses for UV and charged |
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| 46 | particles detection in cosmic rays.</li> |
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| 48 | <li> |
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| 49 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/brachytherapy">brachytherapy</a></b>, |
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| 50 | illustrating a typical medical physics application simulating energy deposit |
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| 51 | in a Phantom filled with soft tissue.</li> |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | <li> |
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| 54 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/hadrontherapy">hadrontherapy</a></b>, |
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| 55 | illustrating a application simulating an hadron therapy beam line for |
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| 56 | medical physics.</li> |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | <li> |
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| 59 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/human_phantom">human_phantom</a></b>, |
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| 60 | implementing an Anthropomorphic Phantom body built importing the description from |
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| 61 | a <A HREF="http://cern.ch/gdml">GDML</A> representation.</li> |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | <li> |
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| 64 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/medical_linac">medical_linac</a></b>, |
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| 65 | illustrating a typical medical physics application simulating energy deposit |
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| 66 | in a Phantom filled with water for a typical linac used for intensity modulated |
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| 67 | radiation therapy. The experimental set-up is very similar to one used in |
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| 68 | clinical practice.</li> |
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| 70 | <li> |
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| 71 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/microbeam">microbeam</a></b>, |
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| 72 | simulates the cellular irradiation beam line installed on the AIFIRA electrostatic |
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| 73 | accelerator facility located at CENBG, Bordeaux-Gradignan, France. |
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| 74 | |
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| 75 | <li> |
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| 76 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/purging_magnet">purging_magnet</a></b>, |
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| 77 | illustrating an application that simulates electrons traveling through a 3D |
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| 78 | magnetic field; used in a medical environment for simulating a strong purging |
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| 79 | magnet in a treatment head.</li> |
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| 80 | |
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| 81 | <li> |
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| 82 | <b><a href=" http://www.ge.infn.it/~geant4/hep/radmon">radiation_monitor</a></b>, |
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| 83 | illustrating an application for the study of the effects of a chip carrier on silicon |
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| 84 | radiation monitoring devices used in the LHC environment. |
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| 85 | |
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| 86 | <li> |
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| 87 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/radioprotection">radioprotection</a></b>, |
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| 88 | illustrating an application to evaluate the dose in astronauts, in vehicle |
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| 89 | concepts and Moon surface habitat configurations, in a defined interplanetary |
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| 90 | space radiation environment.</li> |
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| 91 | |
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| 92 | <li> |
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| 93 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/gammaray_telescope">gammaray_telescope</a></b>, |
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| 94 | illustrating an application to typical gamma ray telescopes with a flexible |
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| 95 | configuration.</li> |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | <li> |
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| 98 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/xray_telescope">xray_telescope</a></b>, |
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| 99 | illustrating an application for the study of the radiation background in |
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| 100 | a typical X-ray telescope.</li> |
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| 101 | |
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| 102 | <li> |
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| 103 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/fluorescence">xray_fluorescence</a></b>, |
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| 104 | illustrating the emission of X-ray fluorescence and PIXE.</li> |
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| 105 | |
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| 106 | <li> |
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| 107 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples">underground_physics</a></b>, |
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| 108 | illustrating an underground detector for dark matter searches.</li> |
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| 109 | |
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| 110 | <li> |
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| 111 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/cosmicray_charging">cosmicray_charging</a></b>, |
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| 112 | illustrating an application aimed at simulating the electrostatic charging of |
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| 113 | isolated test masses in the LISA mission by galactic cosmic ray protons and |
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| 114 | helium nuclei.</li> |
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| 115 | |
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| 116 | <li> |
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| 117 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/composite_calorimeter">composite_calorimeter</a></b>, |
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| 118 | test-beam simulation of the CMS Hadron calorimeter at LHC.</li> |
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| 120 | <li> |
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| 121 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/lAr_calorimeter">lAr_calorimeter</a></b>, |
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| 122 | simulating the Forward Liquid Argon Calorimeter (FCAL) of the ATLAS |
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| 123 | Detector at LHC. |
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| 124 | |
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| 125 | <li> |
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| 126 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/raredecay_calorimetry">raredecay_calorimetry</a></b>, |
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| 127 | illustrating how to estimate importance of photonuclear reactions for photon inefficiency |
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| 128 | of calorimeters and compare effectiveness of different absorbers in order to reduce it. |
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| 130 | <li> |
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| 131 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/RICH">Rich</a></b>, |
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| 132 | simulating the TestBeam Setup of the Rich detector at the LHCb experiment, |
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| 133 | testing the performance of the aerogel radiator</li> |
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| 135 | <li> |
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| 136 | <b><a href="http://www.ge.infn.it/geant4/examples/Tiara">Tiara</a></b>, |
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| 137 | a simulation of the neutron shielding experiment TIARA providing a |
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| 138 | realistic example for applying geometrical importance sampling</li> |
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| 139 | </ul> |
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| 141 | Further documentation about the analysis tools used in these examples is |
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| 142 | available at:<br> |
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| 143 | <a href="http://aida.freehep.org">AIDA</a>(Abstract Interfaces for Data Analysis) and |
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| 144 | <a href="http://cern.ch/PI">AIDA/PI</a>, |
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| 145 | <a href="http://jas.freehep.org">JAS</a> and |
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| 146 | <a href="http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/OpenScientist/">OpenScientist</a>. |
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| 147 | <p> |
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| 148 | <hr><i><a href="../../../../Authors/html/subjectsToAuthors.html">About |
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| 149 | the authors</a></i> |
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