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Geant4 - an Object-Oriented Toolkit for Simulation in HEP
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Copper Simulation
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This simulation is edited from the geant4 example B1. This simulation tests
the sensitivity of the geometry for the copper shielding of the NEXT detector,
a neutrinoless double beta decay experiment.
1- GEOMETRY DEFINITION
The geometry is constructed in the B1DetectorConstruction class.
The setup consists of a the world, a chamber of xenon gas, a
plastice barrel, and copper shileding including the forward
endcap, backward endcap and barrel.
2- PHYSICS LIST
The particle's type and the physic processes which will be available
in this example are set in the QBBC physics list. This physics list
requires data files for electromagnetic and hadronic processes.
See more on installation of the datasets in Geant4 Installation Guide,
Chapter 3.3: Note On Geant4 Datasets:
http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/UserDocumentation/UsersGuides
/InstallationGuide/html/ch03s03.html
The following datasets: G4LEDATA, G4LEVELGAMMADATA, G4NEUTRONXSDATA,
G4SAIDXSDATA and G4ENSDFSTATEDATA are mandatory for this example.
In addition the build-in interactive command:
/process/(in)activate processName
allows to activate/inactivate the processes one by one.
3- ACTION INITALIZATION
A newly introduced class, B1ActionInitialization, instantiates and registers
to Geant4 kernel all user action classes.
While in sequential mode the action classes are instatiated just once,
via invoking the method:
B1ActionInitialization::Build()
in multi-threading mode the same method is invoked for each thread worker
and so all user action classes are defined thread-local.
A run action class is instantiated both thread-local
and global that's why its instance is created also in the method
B1ActionInitialization::BuildForMaster()
which is invoked only in multi-threading mode.
4- PRIMARY GENERATOR
THe primary generator is defined in the B1PrimaryGeneratorAction class.
This simulation uses the G4ParticleGun to shoot photons at 2.6 MeV toward
the copper foward endcap in all directions. This is the energy is the
energy of the dominant background for the detector thus for this
simulation it is sufficient to have only this.
5- DETECTOR RESPONSE
This example has three scoring volumes that collect the erngy deposited in each.
These volumes are the xenon chamber, the copper foward endcap, and the world.
The copper endcap and world scoring volumes are used as a check, we primarily
are interested in the energy depositied in the xenon chamber.
The energy deposited is collected step by step for a selected volume
in B1SteppingAction and accumulated event by event in B1EventAction.
At end of event, the value acummulated in B1EventAction is added in B1RunAction
and summed over the whole run (see B1EventAction::EndOfevent()).
Total dose deposited is computed at B1RunAction::EndOfRunAction(),
and printed together with informations about the primary particle.
In multi-threading mode the energy accumulated in G4Accumulable objects per
workers is merged to the master in B1RunAction::EndOfRunAction() and the final
result is printed on the screen.
G4Parameter<G4double> type instead of G4double type is used for the B1RunAction
data members in order to facilitate merging of the values accumulated on workers
to the master. Currently the accumulables have to be registered to G4AccumulablesManager
and G4AccumulablesManager::Merge() has to be called from the users code. This is planned
to be further simplified with a closer integration of G4Accumulable classes in
the Geant4 kernel next year.
An example of creating and computing new units (e.g., dose) is also shown
in the class constructor.
The following paragraphs are common to all basic examples
A- VISUALISATION
The visualization manager is set via the G4VisExecutive class
in the main() function in exampleB1.cc.
The initialisation of the drawing is done via a set of /vis/ commands
in the macro vis.mac. This macro is automatically read from
the main function when the example is used in interactive running mode.
By default, vis.mac opens an OpenGL viewer (/vis/open OGL).
The user can change the initial viewer by commenting out this line
and instead uncommenting one of the other /vis/open statements, such as
HepRepFile or DAWNFILE (which produce files that can be viewed with the
HepRApp and DAWN viewers, respectively). Note that one can always
open new viewers at any time from the command line. For example, if
you already have a view in, say, an OpenGL window with a name
"viewer-0", then
/vis/open DAWNFILE
then to get the same view
/vis/viewer/copyView viewer-0
or to get the same view *plus* scene-modifications
/vis/viewer/set/all viewer-0
then to see the result
/vis/viewer/flush
The DAWNFILE, HepRepFile drivers are always available
(since they require no external libraries), but the OGL driver requires
that the Geant4 libraries have been built with the OpenGL option.
From Release 9.6 the vis.mac macro in example B1 has additional commands
that demonstrate additional functionality of the vis system, such as
displaying text, axes, scales, date, logo and shows how to change
viewpoint and style. Consider copying these to other examples or
your application. To see even more commands use help or
ls or browse the available UI commands in the Application
Developers Guide, Section 7.1.
For more information on visualization, including information on how to
install and run DAWN, OpenGL and HepRApp, see the visualization tutorials,
for example,
http://geant4.slac.stanford.edu/Presentations/vis/G4[VIS]Tutorial/G4[VIS]Tutorial.html
(where [VIS] can be replaced by DAWN, OpenGL and HepRApp)
The tracks are automatically drawn at the end of each event, accumulated
for all events and erased at the beginning of the next run.
B- USER INTERFACES
The user command interface is set via the G4UIExecutive class
in the main() function in exampleB1.cc
The selection of the user command interface is then done automatically
according to the Geant4 configuration or it can be done explicitly via
the third argument of the G4UIExecutive constructor (see exampleB4a.cc).
C- HOW TO RUN
- Execute exampleB1 in the 'interactive mode' with visualization:
% ./exampleB1
and type in the commands from run1.mac line by line:
Idle> /control/verbose 2
Idle> /tracking/verbose 1
Idle> /run/beamOn 10
Idle> ...
Idle> exit
or
Idle> /control/execute run1.mac
....
Idle> exit
- Execute exampleB1 in the 'batch' mode from macro files
(without visualization)
% ./exampleB1 run2.mac
% ./exampleB1 exampleB1.in > exampleB1.out