Geant4 Tutorial Course

Aug 18, 2025, 8:30 AM → Aug 22, 2025, 5:00 PM US/Eastern

Applied Research Center (ARC) Rm 125 (Jefferson Lab)

Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility), Maurizio Ungaro (Jefferson Lab)

Jefferson Lab (Newport News, VA) is organizing a four day tutorial course based on Geant4 version 11.3.p02. It will cover all the application domains including high energy and nuclear physics, astrophysics and space engineering, medical applications, and newly arising industrial applications.

 

The lectures will cover all aspects of the toolkit of Geant4 version 11.3.p02 from basic installation through advanced topics including multithreading and variance reduction options, and will be interspersed with hands-on sessions that build a progressively more complex application extensible to real use. The course should be of interest both to complete novices and to those who already have some basic familiarity with Geant4. Participants are expected to have a reasonable knowledge of C++ and Linux OS in addition to basic radiation physics.

 

The tutorial starts in the morning of August 18^th, 2025 (Monday) and runs through the afternoon of August 21^st, 2025 (Thursday) with additional discussion sessions on August 22^nd, 2025 (Friday) for selected topics.

 

The capacity is limited to 50 on a first-come-first-served basis. This tutorial is in-person only and no remote participation is offered. The registration fee is $120 that should be paid as a part of the registration process. The fee covers refreshments for Monday through Thursday.

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Tutorial room is changed. It is now Applied Research Center (ARC) Rm 125. 

Mon, August 18

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Registration

9:30 AM → 10:40 AM Tutorial

9:30 AM Welcome and introduction

Speakers: Amber Boehnlein (JLAB), Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

9:45 AM Kernel 1

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Kernel1.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Tutorial

11:00 AM User documents and examples

Speaker: Maurizio Ungaro (Jefferson Lab)

usersdocs_examples_jlab_august2025.pdf

11:30 AM User interface 1

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

UserInterface1.pdf

12:00 PM Visualization

Speaker: Maurizio Ungaro (Jefferson Lab)

visualization_jlab_august2025.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Tutorial

1:30 PM Physics overview

Speaker: Dennis Wright (Geant4 AI)

Physics1.pdf

2:05 PM Primary particle

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

PrimaryParticle.pdf

2:35 PM Decay and optical processes

Speaker: Dennis Wright (Geant4 AI)

Physics3.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM break

3:20 PM → 5:20 PM Hands on

Hands-On for Geant4 School at JLAB

3:20 PM Hands On 1

• Confirming Geant4 installation
• Run Geant4 examples

The hands-on instruction is here.

Tue, August 19

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Tutorial

9:00 AM Material definition

Speaker: Maurizio Ungaro (Jefferson Lab)

materials_jlab_august2025.pdf

9:30 AM Geometry 1

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Geometry1.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Tutorial

11:00 AM Geometry 2

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Geometry2.pdf

12:00 PM Analysis

Speaker: Maurizio Ungaro (Jefferson Lab)

analysis_jlab_august2025.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Tutorial

1:30 PM EM physics 1

Speaker: Maurizio Ungaro (Jefferson Lab)

em1_jlab_august2025.pdf

2:15 PM Scoring 1

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Scoring1.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM break

3:20 PM → 5:20 PM Hands on

Hands-On for Geant4 School at JLAB

3:20 PM Hands on 2

• How to define materials
• How to define a very simple geometry
• How to use command line scoring to record, store and display simulation results

The hands-on instruction is here.

Wed, August 20

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Tutorial

9:00 AM EM physics 2

Speaker: Dennis Wright (Geant4 AI)

EMPhys2.pdf

9:40 AM Scoring 2

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Scoring2.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Tutorial

11:00 AM Geometry 3

Speaker: Dennis Wright (Geant4 AI)

Geom3.pdf

11:30 AM Hadronic physics 1

Speaker: Maurizio Ungaro (Jefferson Lab)

hadronic_physics_1_jlab_august2025.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Tutorial

1:30 PM Hadronic physics 2

Speaker: Dennis Wright (Geant4 AI)

HadPhys2.pdf

2:15 PM User interface 2

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

UserInterface2.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM break

3:20 PM → 5:20 PM Hands on

Hands-On for Geant4 School at JLAB

3:20 PM Hands On 3

• Create a semi-realistic geometry
• Collect simulation output from sensitive detectors in hits
• Use the user event action to dump event information from hits on screen

The hands-on instruction is here.

Thu, August 21

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Tutorial

9:00 AM Hadronic physics 3

Speaker: Dennis Wright (Geant4 AI)

HadPhys3.pdf

9:25 AM Geometry 4

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Geometry4.pdf

10:05 AM Event biasing and fast simulation

Speaker: Dennis Wright (Geant4 AI)

EvtBiasFastSim.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Tutorial

11:00 AM Kernel 2

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Kernel2.pdf

11:40 AM Choosing and customizing physics list

Speaker: Dennis Wright (Geant4 AI)

ChoosePhysList.pdf

12:10 PM Multithreading and heterogeneous computing

Speaker: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

Multithread.pdf

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM lunch break

1:30 PM → 3:30 PM Hands on

Hands-On for Geant4 School at JLAB

1:30 PM Hands On 4

• How to define a user run class to accumulate quantities from different events
• How to process this information to make a simple physics measurement using G4UserRunAction
• How to store physics results on output files with g4analysis for post-processing analysis.
• How to modify physics list using constructors.

The hands-on instruction is here.

3:30 PM → 3:50 PM break

3:50 PM → 5:00 PM Tutorial

3:50 PM Updating Geant4 installation

Speaker: Maurizio Ungaro (Jefferson Lab)

upgrading_jlab_august2025.pdf

4:10 PM Q/A and concluding remarks

Speakers: Dr Makoto Asai (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility), Maurizio Ungaro (Jefferson Lab), Dennis Wright (Geant4 AI)

Fri, August 22

9:00 AM → 12:00 PM Additional discussions

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM lunch break

1:00 PM → 5:00 PM Additional discussions