Simulate synchrotron radiation

GEOMETRY DEFINITION

The geometry consists of a single block of a homogenous material.

Two parameters define the geometry :

the material of the box,
the (full) size of the box. The default is 500 m of vacuum.

A transverse uniform magnetic field can be applied.

The default geometry is constructed in DetectorConstruction class, but all of the above parameters can be changed interactively via the commands defined in the DetectorMessenger class.

PHYSICS LIST

The particle list is the one of novice/exampleN03 and TestEm6 with in addition synchrotron radiation. To make the synchrotron radiation easily visible, a very low pressure "vaccuum" and a magnetic field of by default 1 Tesla in z-direction is used.

AN EVENT : THE PRIMARY GENERATOR

The primary kinematic consists of a single particle which hits the block perpendicular to the input face. The type of the particle and its energy are set in the PrimaryGeneratorAction class, and can changed via the G4 build-in commands of G4ParticleGun class (see the macros provided with this example). The default is an positron of 10 GeV.

In addition one can choose randomly the impact point of the incident particle. The corresponding interactive command is built in PrimaryGeneratorMessenger class.

A RUN is a set of events.

VISUALIZATION

The Visualization Manager is set in the main () (see TestEm16.cc). The initialisation of the drawing is done via the command

> /control/execute vis.mac
> /run/beamOn 1

The detector has a default view which is a longitudinal view of the box.

The tracks are drawn at the end of event, and erased at the end of run. Optionaly one can choose to draw all particles, only the charged one, or none. This command is defined in EventActionMessenger class.

PHYSICS DEMO

The particle's type and the physic processes which will be available in this example are set in PhysicsList class.

In addition a build-in interactive command (/process/inactivate proname) allows to activate/inactivate the processes one by one.

The threshold for producing secondaries can be changed. eg:

 /run/particle/setCut 100 micrometer
 /run/initialize

To visualize the Synchrotron radiation :

/control/execute vis.mac

HOW TO START ?

Execute Test in 'batch' mode from macro files
```
% TestEm16    run01.mac
```

Execute Test in 'interactive mode' with visualization

% TestEm16
        ....
Idle> type your commands
        ....
Idle> exit

TRACKING : stepMax and setMaxStepLength

In order to control the accuracy of the deposition, the user can limit 'by hand' the maximum step size stepMax of charged particles.

The maximum tracking step length for computing of magnetic field lines is by default set to 1 km. Synchrotron radiation in very weak magnetic fields of the order of 1 Gauss may require longer pathlength. This can be achieved with using setMaxStepLength like

/testem/tracking/setMaxStepLength 100 km

HISTOGRAMS

TestEm16 produces 3 histograms which illustrate synchrotron radiation. The photon energy spectrum (photons / energy bin) and the power spectrum (photon spectrum weighted with the photon energy) and a histogram of the path length between photon radiation is produced.

The histograms are managed by G4AnalysisManager and its messenger, HistoMessenger.

The histos can be activated individually with the command :

/analysis/h1/set id nbBins valMin valMax unit

where 'unit' is the desired unit for the histo (MeV or KeV, cm or mm, etc..)

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

/analysis/setFileName  name  (default testem16)

It is possible to choose the format of the histogram file : root (default), xml, csv, by using namespace in HistoManager.hh

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 testem16)