User Application.pptVIP

User Application Luciano Pandola INFN-LNGS Toolkit and User Application Geant4 is a toolkit (= a collection of tools) i.e. you cannot “run” it out of the box You must write an application, which uses Geant4 tools Consequences: There are no such concepts as “Geant4 defaults” You must provide the necessary information to configure your simulation You must deliberately choose which Geant4 tools to use Guidance: many examples are provided Novice Examples: overview of Geant4 tools Advanced Examples: Geant4 tools in real-life applications Basic concepts What you MUST do: Describe your experimental set-up Provide the primary particles input to your simulation Decide which particles and physics models you want to use out of those available in Geant4 and the precision of your simulation (cuts to produce and track secondary particles) You may also want To interact with Geant4 kernel to control your simulation To visualise your simulation configuration or results To produce histograms, tuples etc. to be further analysed Interaction with the Geant4 kernel - 1 Geant4 design provides tools for a user application To tell the kernel about your simulation configuration To interact with Geant4 kernel itself Geant4 tools for user interaction are base classes You create your own concrete class derived from the base classes ? interface to the Geant4 kernel Geant4 kernel handles your own derived classes transparently through their base class interface (polymorphism) Interaction with the Geant4 kernel - 2 Abstract base classes for user interaction (classes starting with G4V) User derived concrete classes are mandatory User to implement the purely virtual methods Concrete base classes (with virtual dummy default methods) for user interaction User derived classes are optional User Classes Initialisation classes Invoked at the initialization G4VUserDetectorConstruction G4VUserPhysicsList User Classes - 2 Geant4 concept The main() program - 1 Geant4 does not provide the main() Gean