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5 | Geant4 - an Object-Oriented Toolkit for Simulation in HEP |
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8 | TestEm8 |
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11 | Test for investigation of ionisation in thin absorbers, transition |
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12 | and synchrotron radiations. |
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15 | 1- GEOMETRY DEFINITION |
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17 | The "absorber" is a tube made of a given material. |
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19 | Three parameters define the absorber : |
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20 | - the material of the absorber, |
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21 | - the thickness of an absorber, |
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22 | - the transverse size of the absorber (the input face is a square). |
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24 | The volume "World" contains the "absorber". |
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25 | In this test the parameters of the "World" can be changed , too. |
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27 | In addition a transverse uniform magnetic field can be applied. |
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29 | The default geometry is constructed in DetectorConstruction class, |
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30 | but all the parameters can be changed via |
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31 | the commands defined in the DetectorMessenger class. |
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33 | 2- AN EVENT : THE PRIMARY GENERATOR |
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35 | The primary kinematic consists of a single particle which hits the |
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36 | absorber perpendicular to the input face. The type of the particle |
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37 | and its energy are set in the PrimaryGeneratorAction class, and can |
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38 | be changed via the G4 build-in commands of ParticleGun class (see |
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39 | the macros provided with this example). |
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41 | A RUN is a set of events. |
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43 | 3- DETECTOR RESPONSE |
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45 | Here we test G4PAIionisation , G4IonisationByLogicalVolume and |
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46 | transition radiation processes |
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48 | A HIT is a record, event per event , of all the |
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49 | informations needed to simulate and analyse the detector response. |
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51 | In this example a CalorHit is defined as a set of 2 informations: |
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52 | - the total energy deposit in the absorber, |
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53 | - the total tracklength of all charged particles in the absorber, |
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55 | Therefore the absorber is declared |
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56 | 'sensitive detector' (SD), which means they can contribute to the hit. |
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58 | At the end of a run, from the histogram(s), one can study |
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59 | different physics quantities such as : |
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60 | - angle distribution, |
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61 | - energy deposit, |
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62 | - transmission/backscattering, |
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63 | - ... |
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65 | The test contains 10 built-in histograms, which can be activated by |
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66 | interactive commands (see the macros runxx.mac for details). |
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68 | The histogram files can be viewed using PAW e.g with the commands |
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70 | paw> h/file 1 geant4.plot01 or g4.p11 |
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71 | paw> option stat |
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72 | paw> h/pl 1 |
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76 | 4- PHYSICS DEMO |
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78 | The particle's type and the physic processes which will be available |
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79 | in this example are set in PhysicsList class. |
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81 | The messenger classes introduce interactive commands . Using these |
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82 | commands the geometry of the detector, the data of the primary |
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83 | particle, the limits of the histograms , etc. can be changed. |
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86 | 5- HOW TO START ? |
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88 | - compile and link to generate an executable |
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89 | % cd TestEm8 |
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90 | % gmake |
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92 | - execute TestEm8 in 'batch' mode from macro files e.g. |
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93 | % $(G4INSTALL)/bin/$(G4SYSTEM)/TestEm8 run11.mac |
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95 | - execute TestEm8 in 'interactive' mode with visualization e.g. |
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96 | % $(G4INSTALL)/bin/$(G4SYSTEM)/TestEm8 |
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97 | .... |
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98 | Idle> type your commands |
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99 | .... |
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