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5 Geant4 - an Object-Oriented Toolkit for Simulation in HEP
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8 fanoCavity2
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10
11 This program computes the dose deposited in an ionization chamber by an
12 extended (one dimensional) monoenergetic electron source.
13 The geometry of the chamber satisfies the conditions of charged particle
14 equilibrium. Hence, under idealized conditions, the ratio of the dose
15 deposited over the beam energy fluence must be equal to 1.
16 This variante of the Fano cavity test make use of an reciprocity theorem.
17
18 J.Sempau and P.Andreo, Phys. Med. Biol. 51 (2006) 3533
19
20 1- GEOMETRY
21
22 The chamber is modelized as a cylinder with a cavity in it.
23
24 5 parameters define the geometry :
25 - the radius of the chamber (must be big)
26 - the material of the wall
27 - the thickness of the wall
28 - the material of the cavity
29 - the thickness of the cavity
30
31 Wall and cavity must be made of the same material, but with different
32 density.
33 Radius must be bigger than range of electrons in cavity.
34
35 All above parameters can be redifined via the UI commands built in
36 DetectorMessenger class.
37
38 _________________
39 radius (infinite) | | | |
40 | | | |
41 | | | |
42 | | | |
43 | | <-+-----+--- cavity
44 | | | |
45 | | | |
46 ---------------------------- cylinder axis = e- source
47 | | | |
48 | | | |
49 | | | |
50 |wall | |wall |
51 | | | |
52 | | | |
53 | | | |
54 -----------------
55
56 2- BEAM
57
58 Monoenergetic (E0) incident electron source is uniformly distribued along
59 cylinder axis, within wall and cavity, with constant lineic density
60 per mass: I.
61 An effective wall thickness is defined from the range of e- at energy E0.
62
63 Beam_energy_fluence is E0*I
64
65 3- PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM
66
67 The program computes the dose deposited in the cavity and the ratio
68 Dose/Beam_energy_fluence. This ratio must be 1.
69
70 The program needs high statistic to reach precision on the computed dose.
71 The UI command /testem/event/printModulo allows to survey the convergence of
72 the dose calculation.
73
74 The simplest way to study the effect of e- tracking parameters on dose
75 deposition is to use the command /testem/stepMax.
76
77 4- PHYSICS
78
79 The physics list contains the standard electromagnetic processes, with few
80 modifications listed here.
81
82 - Bremsstrahlung : Fano conditions imply no energy transfer via
83 bremsstrahlung radiation. Therefore this process is not registered in the
84 physics list. However, it is always possible to include it via an UI
85 command. See PhysicsListMessenger class.
86
87 - Ionization : In order to have same stopping power in wall and cavity, one
88 must cancel the density correction term in the dedx formula. This is done in
89 a specific MollerBhabha model (MyMollerBhabhaModel) which inherites from
90 G4MollerBhabhaModel.
91
92 To prevent explicit generation of delta-rays, the default production
93 threshold (i.e. cut) is set to 10 km (CSDA condition).
94
95 The finalRange of the step function is set to 10 um, which more on less
96 correspond to a tracking cut in water of about 20 keV. See emOptions.
97 Once again, the above parameters can be controled via UI commands.
98
99 - Multiple scattering : is switched in single Coulomb scattering mode near
100 boundaries. This is selected via EM options in PhysicsList, and can be
101 controled with UI commands.
102
103 - All PhysicsTables are built with 100 bins per decade.
104
105 5- HISTOGRAMS
106
107 fanoCavity2 has several predefined 1D histograms :
108
109 1 : emission point of e+-
110 2 : energy spectrum of e+-
111 3 : theta distribution of e+-
112 4 : emission point of e+- hitting cavity
113 5 : energy spectrum of e+- when entering in cavity
114 6 : theta distribution of e+- before enter in cavity
115 7 : theta distribution of e+- at first step in cavity
116 8 : track segment of e+- in cavity
117 9 : step size of e+- in wall
118 10 : step size of e+- in cavity
119 11 : energy deposit in cavity per track
120
121 The histograms are managed by the HistoManager class and its Messenger.
122 The histos can be individually activated with the command :
123 /testem/histo/setHisto id nbBins valMin valMax unit
124 where unit is the desired unit for the histo (MeV or keV, deg or mrad, etc..)
125
126 One can control the name of the histograms file with the command:
127 /testem/histo/setFileName name (default fanoCavity)
128
129 It is possible to choose the format of the histogram file (hbook, root, XML)
130 with the command /testem/histo/setFileType (hbook by default)
131
132 It is also possible to print selected histograms on an ascii file:
133 /testem/histo/printHisto id
134 All selected histos will be written on a file name.ascii (default fanocavity2)
135
136 Note that, by default, histograms are disabled. To activate them, uncomment
137 the flag G4ANALYSIS_USE in GNUmakefile.
138
139 6- HOW TO START ?
140
141 - compile and link to generate an executable
142 % cd geant4/examples/extended/medical/fanoCavity2
143 % gmake
144
145 - execute fanoCavity2 in 'batch' mode from macro files
146 % fanoCavity2 run01.mac
147
148 - execute fanoCavity2 in 'interactive mode' with visualization
149 % fanoCavity2
150 ....
151 Idle> type your commands
152 ....
153 Idle> exit
154
155 7- USING HISTOGRAMS
156
157 To use histograms, at least one of the AIDA implementations should be
158 available (see http://aida.freehep.org).
159
160 8a - PI
161
162 A package including AIDA and extended interfaces also using Python is PI,
163 available from: http://cern.ch/pi
164
165 Once installed PI or PI-Lite in a specified local area $MYPY, it is required
166 to add the installation path to $PATH, i.e. for example, for release 1.2.1 of
167 PI:
168 setenv PATH ${PATH}:$MYPI/1.2.1/app/releases/PI/PI_1_2_1/rh73_gcc32/bin
169
170 CERN users can use the PATH to the LCG area on AFS.
171 Before running the example the command should be issued:
172 eval `aida-config --runtime csh`
173
174 8b - OpenScientist
175
176 OpenScientist is available at http://OpenScientist.lal.in2p3.fr.
177
178 You have to "setup" the OpenScientist AIDA implementation before compiling
179 (then with G4ANALYSIS_USE set) and running your Geant4 application.
180
181 On UNIX you setup, with a csh flavoured shell :
182 csh> source <<OpenScientist install path>/aida-setup.csh
183 or with a sh flavoured shell :
184 sh> . <<OpenScientist install path>/aida-setup.sh
185 On Windows :
186 DOS> call <<OpenScientist install path>/aida-setup.bat
187
188 You can use various file formats for writing (AIDA-XML, hbook, root).
189 These formats are readable by the Lab onx interactive program
190 or the OpenPAW application. See the web pages.
191
192
193 With OpenPAW, on a run.hbook file, one can view the histograms
194 with something like :
195 OS> opaw
196 opaw> h/file 1 run.hbook ( or opaw> h/file 1 run.aida or run.root)
197 opaw> zone 2 2
198 opaw> h/plot 1
199 opaw> h/plot 2
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