Investigate optical properties and parameters. Details of optical photon boundary interactions on a surface are recorded. Details of optical photon generation and transport are recorded. Group velocity may be examined.

GEOMETRY DEFINITION

The geometry consists of a cube "box" with a side of 2 m inside the world cube of side 20 m. Optical properties of the box, the world, and the surface may be set interactively via the commands defined in the DetectorMessenger class.

Material properties may be added using the macro commands:

for the box:

/opnovice2/boxProperty NAME EN1 V1 EN2 V2 [ .. ENn Vn]
/opnovice2/boxConstProperty NAME VALUE

for the world:

 /opnovice2/worldProperty NAME EN1 V1 EN2 V2 [ .. ENn Vn]
 /opnovice2/worldConstProperty NAME VALUE

for the surface:

 /opnovice2/surfaceProperty NAME EN1 V1 EN2 V2 [ .. ENn Vn]

Multiple energy and value pairs may be specified for the energy-dependent properties.

Values are in Geant4 internal units. Energy is in MeV.

Example:

/opnovice2/boxProperty RINDEX 0.000002 1.3 0.000005 1.32 0.000008 1.34

sets the refractive index of the box to 1.3 at 2 eV, 1.32 at 5 eV, and 1.34 at 8 eV.

PHYSICS LIST

The FTFP_BERT physics list is used, with electromagnetic option EMZ (option4) and G4OpticalPhysics for the optical physics.

AN EVENT : THE PRIMARY GENERATOR

The primary kinematic consists of a single particle. The type of the particle, its energy, position, and direction, are set in the PrimaryGeneratorAction class, and can be changed via the G4 build-in commands of G4ParticleGun class (see the macros provided with this example).

VISUALIZATION

The Visualization Manager is set in the main(). The initialisation of the drawing is done via the commands /vis/... in the macro vis.mac. To get visualisation:

> /control/execute vis.mac

or run the program with no command line arguments:

$ ./OpNovice2

HOW TO START ?

Execute OpNovice2 in 'batch' mode from macro files
```
% OpNovice2 electron.mac
```

Execute OpNovice2 in 'interactive mode' with visualization

% OpNovice2
....
Idle> type your commands
....
Idle> exit

RESULTS

A table of optical photon events is printed at the end of the run.
Group velocity is printed with /tracking/verbose 1 or higher.

HISTOGRAMS

OpNovice2 has several predefined 1D histograms :

1 : Cerenkov spectrum
2 : scintillation spectrum
3 : scintillation time (global time)
4 : WLS absorption spectrum
5 : WLS emission spectrum
6 : WLS emission time
7 : WLS2 absorption spectrum
8 : WLS2 emission spectrum
9 : WLS2 emission time
10 : boundary process status
11 : X momentum dir of scattered photons with px < 0
12 : Y momentum dir of scattered photons with px < 0
13 : Z momentum dir of scattered photons with px < 0
14 : X momentum dir of scattered photons with px >= 0
15 : Y momentum dir of scattered photons with px >= 0
16 : Z momentum dir of scattered photons with px >= 0
17 : X momentum dir of Fresnel-refracted photons
18 : Y momentum dir of Fresnel-refracted photons
19 : Z momentum dir of Fresnel-refracted photons
20 : fraction of photons refracted (i.e. Fresnel transmission)
21 : fraction of photons Fresnel-reflected
22 : fraction of photons total internal reflected (TIR)
23 : fraction of photons reflected (Fresnel reflection plus TIR)
24 : fraction of photons absorbed at surface
25 : fraction of photons "transmitted" (i.e. TRANSMITTANCE material property)
26 : fraction of photons spike-reflected

Histograms 11-26 are recorded for photons scattered from the +X surface of the cube. Only the first interaction is recorded.

The histograms are managed by G4Analysis classes. The histos can be individually activated with the command :

/analysis/h1/set id nbBins  valMin valMax

The unit is hardcoded to be eV for energy and ns for time.

One can control the name of the histograms file with the command:

/analysis/setFileName  name  (default opnovice2)

It is possible to choose the format of the histogram file : root (default), hdf5, xml, csv, by changing the default file type in HistoManager.cc

It is also possible to print selected histograms on an ascii file:

/analysis/h1/setAscii id

All selected histos will be written on a file name.ascii (default opnovice2)

MACROS

Several macros are included.

boundary.mac: Set the surface to the various types and configurations of model, type, etc., shoot optical photons, and record statistics. This macro uses the command /opnovice2/stepping/killOnSecondSurface, which kills photon tracks incident on a second surface. This can be useful for visualizing surface scattering.
coated.mac: To show reflection/refraction from thin film coating
electron.mac: Shoot electrons and observe Cerenkov and scintillation radiation
fresnel.mac: Shoot optical photons of fixed polarization and random direction at a surface, and plot reflectance/transmittance vs incident angle.
complexRindex.mac: Use a dielectric-metal surface with a complex index of refraction.
OpNovice2.mac: Shoot an optical photon inside a box.
scint_by_particle.mac: Configure scintillation to have particle-specific yields, yield ratios, and time constants. Shoot different types of particles.
vis.mac: Configure visualization. The macro command /opnovice2/stepping/killOnSecondSurface, which kills photon tracks incident on a second surface, may be useful for visualizing surface scattering.
wls.mac: Configure two wavelength-shifting processes, and shoot optical photons.