Examples for event biasing: B01 and B02 --------------------------------------- B01 and B02 applications demonstrate the usage of different variance reduction techniques supported in Geant4, or possible from the user applications. General remark to variance reduction ------------------------------------ The tools provided for importance sampling (or geometrical splitting and Russian roulette) and for the weight window technique require the user to have a good understanding of the physics in the problem. This is because the user has to decide which particle types have to be biased, define the cells (physical volumes, replicas) and assign importances or weight windows to that cells. If this is not done properly it can not be expected that the results describe a real experiment. The examples given here only demonstrate how to use the tools technically. They don't intend to produce physical correct results. General remark to scoring ------------------------- A interface G4VScorer is provided for the user. The user may create his own class to perform the desired scoring. The user defined class therefore should inherit from the interface G4VScorer. An example of an implementation of a scorer is G4Scorer which may be found in source/event. The scoring in these examples is done with a G4Scorer. The variance reduction techniques and scoring do not support all options of the Geant4 geometry. It only supports physical volumes and simple replicas. To identify a physical volume (or replica) objects of the class G4GeometryCell are used. Scoring is done according to these cells and importance values or the weight windows may be assigned to them. When scoring is done in a parallel geometry special action has to be taken to prevent counting of "collisions" with boundaries of the mass geometry as interactions. This is differently handled when scoring is done in the mass geometry. --> G4GeometryCell of the parallel geometry must not share boundaries with the world volume! <-- Known problems -------------- In the following scenario it can happen that a particle is not biased and it's weight is therefore not changed even if it crosses a boundary where biasing should happen. Importance and weight window sampling create particles on boundaries between volumes. If the GPIL method of a physical process returns 0 as step length for a particle on a boundary and if the PostStepDoIt of that process changes the direction of the particle to go back in the former volume the biasing won't be invoked. This will produce particles with weights that do not correspondent to the importance of the current volumes. Further information: -------------------- Short description of importance sampling and scoring: http://cern.ch/geant4/working_groups/geometry/biasing/Sampling.html Example B01 =========== The example uses importance sampling or the weight window technique according to an input parameter. It uses scoring in both cases. Importance values or weight windows are defined according to the mass geometry. In this example the weight window technique is configured such that it behaves equivalent to importance sampling: The window is actually not a window but simply the inverse of the importance value and only one energy region is used that covers all energies in the problem. The user may change the weight window configuration by changing the initialization of the weight window algorithm in example,cc. Different energy bounds for the weight window technique may be specified in B01DetectorConstruction. The executable takes one optional argument: 0 or 1. Without argument or with argument: 0, the importance sampling is applied with argument: 1, the weight window technique is applied. Example B02 =========== This example uses a parallel geometry to define G4GeometryCell objects for scoring and importance sampling. In addition it customizes the scoring. In this example one scorer creates a histogram. Compiling and running --------------------- To compile this example you need AIDA installed. To link and run it you need a AIDA compliant analysis package. Histograms are saved in HBOOK format. You need to set the following variable in your environment: "G4ANALYSIS_USE" The example stores the plot in the file b02.hbook. ___________________________________________________________________________ Reverse MonteCarlo Technique example: ReverseMC01 ------------------------------------------------- Example ReverseMC01 =================== Example illustrating the use of the Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) mode in a Geant4 application. See details in ReverseMC01/README.