User Documentation
Version: Geant4 9.6 (Release: 30th November
2012)
Welcome to the Geant4 User's Documents page. This page gives you an
overview of all available documents which are created and maintained by
the Geant4 international collaboration.
GEANT4 is a toolkit for both full and fast Monte Carlo simulation of
detectors in High Energy Physics. It is also designed to take into
account the requirements of space and cosmic ray applications, nuclear,
heavy ion and radiation computations, and medical applications.
The following document gives you a more complete introduction to
Geant4.
For information of changes in User's Documents since the last
release, please see the following note.
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User's Guides
The following four documents comprise a complete set of user's
manuals for the Geant4 toolkit. They contain the information necessary
to build a simulation at the novice or advanced level, and to make
improvements in the toolkit itself.
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Installation Guide: For setting up Geant4 in your computing
environment [
pdf version ]
- We strongly recommend installing the Geant4 toolkit under your
computing environment before starting to read the following user's
guides. You will gain much more from the user guides if you can check
things out with a working version while you are reading them. This
installation guide instructs you in the setting up of the Geant4
toolkit on your computer.
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[Old Versions]
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User's Guide: For Application Developers [
pdf version ]
- If you are new to Geant4, we recommend that you read this
document first. The first part of the document provides a
step-by-step tutorial in the use of Geant4; this is for a novice
user. The second part describes the usage of the toolkit for
practical applications, with a lot of example codes. After reading
this part, you will be able to start to write a detector simulation
program for most applications/experiments. The third part is for
those who want to make more advanced use of the toolkit.
- [Old Versions]
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User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers [
pdf version ]
- This document is for those who want to contribute to the
extension of the functionality to the Geant4 toolkit - for example,
to add a new physics process, to add a new particle, etc. It starts
with the explanation of the object-oriented analysis and design
performed by the original toolkit developers. Understanding this
design is mandatory for a new toolkit developer. Then guidance on how
to extend the functionality of each class category is
given.
- [Old Versions]
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Physics Reference Manual [
Note ]
- This is a detailed description of the physics interactions
provided in the Geant4 toolkit. The theory, model or parameterization
of each interaction is discussed.
- The Physics Reference Manual contains gaps in documentation which
correspond to un-implemented interactions. There are also a few
sections in which documentation is slight. Improvements in these
sections are expected by the next release.
- [Old Versions]
- Version 9.5:
pdf
- Version 9.4:
pdf
- Software
Reference Manual
- This is a detailed description of the definitions of classes and
their public methods in the toolkit. Sometimes it will take a time to
get the view. Please be patient.
(Printed Version: Not available)
- The Software Reference Manual no longer be maintained
after Release 9.6. Please use the LXR browser
instead.
- [Old Versions]
- Browsing Geant4 source codes
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For those who want to know details of the Geant4 codes, the
following pages can be helpful.
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Contributions from Users
To make Geant4 a more powerful and reliable detector simulation
toolkit, all levels of contributions from you are essential.
- Bug Reports and
Fixes
- Bugs reported and problem tracking system.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Frequently asked questions from users and answers to them.
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