| [807] | 1 | $Id: README,v 1.2 2007/11/13 16:43:59 maire Exp $
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| 2 | -------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 3 |
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| 4 | =========================================================
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| 5 | Geant4 - an Object-Oriented Toolkit for Simulation in HEP
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| 6 | =========================================================
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| 7 |
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| 8 | TestEm18
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| 9 | --------
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| 10 | This example allows to study the energy lost by a charged particle in a
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| 11 | single layer, due to ionization and bremsstrahlung. Results are compared to
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| 12 | 'reference' values.
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| 13 |
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| 14 | 1- GEOMETRY DEFINITION
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| 15 |
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| 16 | It is a single box of homogeneous medium.
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| 17 | Two parameters define the geometry :
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| 18 | - the material of the box,
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| 19 | - the (full) size of the box.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | The default geometry (1 cm of water) is constructed in DetectorConstruction,
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| 22 | but the above parameters can be changed interactively via the commands
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| 23 | defined in DetectorMessenger.
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| 24 |
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| 25 | 2- PHYSICS
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| 26 |
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| 27 | The physics list contains the 'standard' electromagnetic processes.
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| 28 | However the MultipleScattering is not registered, in order to focuse on
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| 29 | fluctuations due to energy loss alone.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | 3- BEAM
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| 32 |
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| 33 | The primary kinematic is a single particle starting at the edge
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| 34 | of the box. The type of the particle and its energy are set in
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| 35 | PrimaryGeneratorAction (e- 10 MeV), and can be changed via the G4
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| 36 | build-in commands of ParticleGun class.
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| 37 |
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| 38 | 4- RUN
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| 39 |
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| 40 | During the tracking of the incident particle, the secondary particles
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| 41 | are immediately killed, after that their energy has been registered
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| 42 | (see StackingAction).
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| 43 | Therefore, we study here the total energy lost by the incident particle,
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| 44 | not the energy deposited in a layer of finite thickness.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | At EndOfRun, the above results are compared with 'reference' values,
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| 47 | i.e. the values read from EnergyLoss tables.
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| 48 |
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| 49 | 5- HISTOGRAMS
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| 50 |
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| 51 | The test contains 6 built-in 1D histograms, which are managed by the
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| 52 | HistoManager class and its Messenger.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | 1 continuous energy loss along primary track
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| 55 | 2 energy from secondaries
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| 56 | 3 total energy lost by primary track (1+2)
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| 57 | 4 energy spectrum of e-+
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| 58 | 5 energy spectrum of gamma
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| 59 | 6 step size of primary track
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| 60 |
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| 61 | The histos can be activated individually with the command :
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| 62 | /testem/histo/setHisto id nbBins valMin valMax unit
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| 63 | where 'unit' is the desired unit for the histo (MeV or KeV, cm or mm, etc..)
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| 64 |
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| 65 | One can control the name and the type of the histograms file with
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| 66 | the commands:
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| 67 | /testem/histo/setFileName name (default testem18)
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| 68 | /testem/histo/setFileType name (default hbook)
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| 69 |
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| 70 | It is also possible to print selected histograms on an ascii file:
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| 71 | /testem/histo/printHisto id
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| 72 | All selected histos will be written on a file name.ascii (default testem18)
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| 73 |
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| 74 | Note that, by default, histograms are disabled. To activate them, uncomment
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| 75 | the flag G4ANALYSIS_USE in GNUmakefile.
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| 76 |
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| 77 | 6- VISUALIZATION
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| 78 |
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| 79 | The Visualization Manager is set in the main().
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| 80 | The initialisation of the drawing is done via the commands
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| 81 | /vis/... in the macro vis.mac. To get visualisation:
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| 82 | > /control/execute vis.mac
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| 83 |
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| 84 | The detector has a default view which is a longitudinal view of the box.
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| 85 | The tracks are drawn at the end of event, and erased at the end of run.
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| 86 |
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| 87 | 7- HOW TO START ?
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| 88 |
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| 89 | compile and link to generate an executable
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| 90 | % cd geant4/examples/extended/electromagnetic/TestEm18
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| 91 | % gmake
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| 92 |
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| 93 | execute TestEm18 in 'batch' mode from macro files :
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| 94 | % TestEm18 electron.mac.mac
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| 95 |
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| 96 | execute TestEm18 in 'interactive mode' with visualization :
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| 97 | % TestEm18
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| 98 | Idle> control/execute vis.mac
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| 99 | ....
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| 100 | Idle> type your commands
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| 101 | ....
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| 102 | Idle> exit
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| 103 |
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| 104 | 8- USING HISTOGRAMS
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| 105 |
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| 106 | By default the histograms are not activated. To activate histograms
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| 107 | the environment variable G4ANALYSIS_USE should be defined. For instance
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| 108 | uncomment the flag G4ANALYSIS_USE in GNUmakefile.
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| 109 |
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| 110 | Before compilation of the example it is optimal to clean up old files:
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| 111 | gmake histclean
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| 112 | gmake
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| 113 |
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| 114 | To use histograms, at least one of the AIDA implementations should be
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| 115 | available (see http://aida.freehep.org).
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| 116 |
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| 117 | 8a - PI
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| 118 |
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| 119 | A package including AIDA and extended interfaces also using Python is PI,
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| 120 | available from: http://cern.ch/pi
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| 121 |
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| 122 | Once installed PI or PI-Lite in a specified local area $MYPY, it is required
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| 123 | to add the installation path to $PATH, i.e. for example, for release 1.2.1 of
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| 124 | PI:
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| 125 | setenv PATH ${PATH}:$MYPI/1.2.1/app/releases/PI/PI_1_2_1/rh73_gcc32/bin
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| 126 |
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| 127 | CERN users can use the PATH to the LCG area on AFS.
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| 128 | Before running the example the command should be issued:
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| 129 | eval `aida-config --runtime csh`
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| 130 |
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| 131 | 8b - OpenScientist
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| 132 |
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| 133 | OpenScientist is available at http://OpenScientist.lal.in2p3.fr.
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| 134 |
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| 135 | You have to "setup" the OpenScientist AIDA implementation before compiling
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| 136 | (then with G4ANALYSIS_USE set) and running your Geant4 application.
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| 137 |
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| 138 | On UNIX you setup, with a csh flavoured shell :
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| 139 | csh> source <<OpenScientist install path>/aida-setup.csh
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| 140 | or with a sh flavoured shell :
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| 141 | sh> . <<OpenScientist install path>/aida-setup.sh
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| 142 | On Windows :
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| 143 | DOS> call <<OpenScientist install path>/aida-setup.bat
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| 144 |
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| 145 | You can use various file formats for writing (AIDA-XML, hbook, root).
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| 146 | These formats are readable by the Lab onx interactive program
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| 147 | or the OpenPAW application. See the web pages.
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| 148 |
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| 149 |
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| 150 | With OpenPAW, on a run.hbook file, one can view the histograms
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| 151 | with something like :
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| 152 | OS> opaw
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| 153 | opaw> h/file 1 run.hbook ( or opaw> h/file 1 run.aida or run.root)
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| 154 | opaw> zone 2 2
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| 155 | opaw> h/plot 1
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| 156 | opaw> h/plot 2
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