$Id: README,v 1.15 2005/11/22 16:58:54 maire Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================= Geant4 - an Object-Oriented Toolkit for Simulation in HEP ========================================================= TestEm6 ------- This example is intended to test the processes of gamma conversion to a pair of muons and annihilation of positrons with atomic electrons to a pair of muons. To make these process more visible, the usually much more frequent gamma conversion to a pair of electrons and the standard positron processes are not selected in the physics list. 1- GEOMETRY DEFINITION The geometry consists of a single block of a homogenous material. Two parameters define the geometry : - the material of the box, - the (full) size of the box. The default is 500 m of iron. In addition a transverse uniform magnetic field can be applied. The default geometry is constructed in DetectorConstruction class, but all of the above parameters can be changed interactively via the commands defined in the DetectorMessenger class. 2- PHYSICS LIST The particle list is the one of novice/exampleN03. The physics list contains the 'standard' electromagnetic processes, and decay. For Gamma, only the GammaConversionToMuons has been registered. Futhermore, a high production cut (1 km, which gives infinity in energy) prevent any production of delta-electrons from ionization or gamma from bremsstrahlung. For Positrons, only the annihilation process is selected. 3- AN EVENT : THE PRIMARY GENERATOR The primary kinematic consists of a single particle which hits the block perpendicular to the input face. The type of the particle and its energy are set in the PrimaryGeneratorAction class, and can changed via the G4 build-in commands of ParticleGun class (see the macros provided with this example). The default is a Gamma of 100 TeV. In addition one can choose randomly the impact point of the incident particle. The corresponding interactive command is built in PrimaryGeneratorMessenger class. A RUN is a set of events. 4- VISUALIZATION The Visualization Manager is set in the main(). The initialisation of the drawing is done via the command > /control/execute vis.mac The detector has a default view which is a longitudinal view of the box. The tracks are drawn at the end of event, and erased at the end of run. Optionaly one can choose to draw all particles, only the charged one, or none. This command is defined in EventActionMessenger class. 5- PHYSICS DEMO The particle's type and the physic processes which will be available in this example are set in PhysicsList class. In addition a build-in interactive command (/process/inactivate proname) allows to activate/inactivate the processes one by one. The threshold for producing secondaries can be changed. eg: /run/particle/setCut 100 micrometer /run/initialize To visualize the GammaConversionToMuons : /control/execute run01.mac /control/execute vis.mac /run/beamOn To visualize the AnnihiToMuPair : /control/execute run11.mac /control/execute vis.mac /run/beamOn 6- HOW TO START ? - compile and link to generate an executable % cd geant4/examples/extended/electromagnetic/TestEm6 % gmake - execute Test in 'batch' mode from macro files % TestEm6 run01.mac - execute Test in 'interactive mode' with visualization % TestEm6 .... Idle> type your commands .... Idle> exit 7- HOW TO INCREASE STATISTICS ON gamma -> mu+mu- ? The processes of gamma -> mu+mu- and e+e- -> mu+mu- have a low cross section but can be important for leakage through thick absorbers and calorimeters. Straight forward simulation will be quite time consuming. To make the processes more visible, the cross section can be artificially increased by some factor (here 1000) using the commands (only effective after /run/initialize) /testem/phys/SetGammaToMuPairFac 1000 /testem/phys/SetAnnihiToMuPairFac 1000 8- HISTOGRAMS Testem6 produces 6 histograms which illustrate the final state of the GammaConversionToMuons process. See their definitions in RunAction.cc By default the histograms are not activated. To activate histograms the environment variable G4ANALYSIS_USE should be defined. For instance uncomment the flag G4ANALYSIS_USE in GNUmakefile. Before compilation of the example it is optimal to clean up old files: gmake histclean gmake By default the histograms are saved as testem6.hbook It is possible to choose the format of the histogram file (hbook, root, XML): comment/uncomment 1 line in the constructor of RunAction. To use histograms, at least one of the AIDA implementations should be available (see http://aida.freehep.org). 8a - PI A package including AIDA and extended interfaces also using Python is PI, available from: http://cern.ch/pi Once installed PI or PI-Lite in a specified local area $MYPY, it is required to add the installation path to $PATH, i.e. for example, for release 1.2.1 of PI: setenv PATH ${PATH}:$MYPI/1.2.1/app/releases/PI/PI_1_2_1/rh73_gcc32/bin CERN users can use the PATH to the LCG area on AFS. Before running the example the command should be issued: eval `aida-config --runtime csh` 8b - OpenScientist OpenScientist is available at http://OpenScientist.lal.in2p3.fr. You have to "setup" the OpenScientist AIDA implementation before compiling (then with G4ANALYSIS_USE set) and running your Geant4 application. On UNIX you setup, with a csh flavoured shell : csh> source </aida-setup.csh or with a sh flavoured shell : sh> . </aida-setup.sh On Windows : DOS> call </aida-setup.bat You can use various file formats for writing (AIDA-XML, hbook, root). These formats are readable by the Lab onx interactive program or the OpenPAW application. See the web pages. With OpenPAW, on a run.hbook file, one can view the histograms with something like : OS> opaw opaw> h/file 1 run.hbook ( or opaw> h/file 1 run.aida or run.root) opaw> zone 2 2 opaw> h/plot 1 opaw> h/plot 2