IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Short Course The Geant4 Simulation Toolkit Sunanda Banerjee (Saha Inst. Nucl. Phys., Kolkata, India) Min Cheol Han (Hanyang Univ., Seoul, Korea) Steffen Hauf (XFEL, Hamburg, Germany) Maria Grazia Pia (INFN Genova, Italy) Seoul, 27 October This course encompasses training material developed by several Geant4 members: thanks to all of them!

How to learn more Documentation User Support

Geant4 Web Home Page The main source of information Address  You can find  Documentation  User Forum  Support  Download Results & Publications News (sorry, incomplete…) Organization

Main User Manuals Installation Guide  How to install Geant4 in the user’s computing environment  Detail instructions for supported platforms User's Guide: For Application Developers  Most important document both for novice and advanced users  Step-by-step tutorial for a novice user  How to use the toolkit with a lot of example code  You should read this first if you are new to Geant4 User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers  For a user who wants to extend the functionality  For example, to add a new physics process, a new volume shape, etc.  Description of the object-oriented analysis and design  Guidance on how to extend specific aspects of the functionality of each package

Publications in scholarly journals S. Agostinelli et al. Geant4: a simulation toolkit NIM A, vol. 506, pp , 2003 J. Allison et al. Geant4 Developments and Applications IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 53, no. 1, pp , 2006 Other collections of publications authored by Geant4 collaboration members at   Beware of the difference between regular articles published in refereed journals and conference papers (which sometimes are published in the same journals!)

User Support: HyperNews User Forum Exchange of questions and experience among users and developers Based on the HyperNews system  Anyone can read  Anyone can add messages  Anyone can join as a member Many subjects  Control of runs, events, tracks, particles  Experimental Setup  General matters  Interfaces  Physics etc…

Conclusion Feedback and outlook

What comes next Once cannot learn Geant4 in one day…  …but hopefully the vision you acquired today will guide you in your next steps Feel free to contact the instructors after the course  Your feedback is welcome! Various Geant4-related papers by former Geant4 Course students published in IEEE TNS  a pleasure for the Associate Editor!

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