User Documentation
Geant4 9.2
Release 19 December 2008
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
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pdf version
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- 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
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pdf version
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- 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.
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[Old Versions]
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User's Guide: For Toolkit Developers
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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.
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[Old Versions]
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Physics Reference Manual
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Note
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- 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.
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[Old Versions]
- 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)
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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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